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Amy Schatz / Re/code:
FCC's Wheeler Denies Trying to Divide Internet Into “Haves” and “Have Nots” — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler denied that he's trying to divide the Internet into fast and slow lanes in response to a letter sent earlier this week by some of the U.S.'s largest Internet companies.
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Politico, Washington Post, @dangillmor, @samgustin, @tonyromm and @b_fung
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Kate Tummarello / The Hill:
FCC chair to hold May 15 vote on proposed net neutrality changes despite calls for delay — Senate Dems protest FCC plan for Internet ‘fast lanes’ — A group of 10 senators are asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to abandon a proposal that would allow Internet providers to create online “fast lanes.”
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TechCrunch, Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat and Senator Wyden's Press Feed
Bill Chappell / NPR:
NPR Names Jarl Mohn As Its New CEO And President — Media industry veteran Jarl Mohn will be NPR's new CEO, the organization's board of directors has announced. — Mohn, 62, currently sits on the board of directors at several media organizations, including Scripps Networks Interactive and web analytics company comScore.
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Deadline.com, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter, scpr.org, Washington Post, LA Observed, @neetzan, New York Times, Here & Now, @davidfolkenflik, ABC News, Philadelphia Magazine, @vivian, Hollywood Reporter, @andrewlapin, AllAccess.com, @rafat, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, @brianstelter, Variety, Radio & Television …, @bob_mondello, @nprmusic and @nprinskeep
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon is delaying delivery of some books “for reasons of their own”, says publisher Hachette — Hachette Says Amazon Is Delaying Delivery of Some Books — Amazon has begun discouraging customers from buying books by Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Colbert, J. D. Salinger and other popular writers …
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@dangillmor, Bookseller news, Business Insider, @juliebosman, @elidourado, @fredkiesche, Guardian, @monkbent, CNNMoney.com, @sherman_alexie, Publishers Lunch, Publishers Weekly, The Digital Reader, @gayleforman, Re/code, @brubaker, Music Business Journal, @readingape, Gigaom, The Week, @ghostwritingcow, @amesoneill, @thegernertco, bizjournals, @malindalo, Digital Book World, @stephestellar, The Awl, @jackshafer, @mari_ness, @aworkinglibrary, @dmoren, @markhor, @johngapper, @biblioracle, @nkjemisin, @drmabuse, @sirsalem, @tobiasbuckell, @briannedeborah, @barerliterary, @saladinahmed and SlashGear
Casey Newton / The Verge:
What Apple is really buying with Beats — This is what you get when you make Dr. Dre a billionaire — All that was missing was the sound of a record needle scratch: Apple is doing what? But the Financial Times' report Thursday evening that the company plans to buy Beats Electronics for $3.2 billion …
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Business Insider, The Awl, New York Magazine, Re/code, Gigaom, Businessweek, AppleInsider, @caseynewton and @dannysullivan
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Wall Street Journal:
Beats CEO's industry clout could help strengthen iTunes Radio, generate more ad revenue
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BuzzFeed, @pmarca, @gerardtbaker, MacRumors, @pkafka, @cincoted, @nyragers, Daring Fireball and Re/code
Claire Atkinson / New York Post:
Beats' CEO Jimmy Iovine in talks to join Apple as Cook's “special adviser” on creative matters
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Re/code, Om Malik, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, Daily Dot, App Advice, Business Insider, AppleInsider, Daring Fireball, hypebot, @nypost, Electronista, VentureBeat, MacRumors, iMore, @jyarow and New York Times
Sam Schwartz / Comcast:
Comcast integrates Twitter into X1 guide with SEEiT to recommend what to watch on live TV — SOCIAL CONVERSATIONS: AN IMPORTANT TOOL IN DISCOVERING WHAT TO WATCH — According to a recent Nielsen study, conversations on Twitter help drive new audiences to TV shows.
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multichannel.com, @kevinweil, @janamal and @rachaelrad
Dave Lee / BBC:
UK ISPs agree to begin sending out warnings to customers who pirate content from next year — Deal to combat piracy in UK with ‘alerts’ is imminent — The agreement has been more than four years in the making — BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media will send “educational” letters to customers believed to be downloading illegally.
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
NBC's Olympic TV Deal Accounts for Advances in Technology — Eighteen years ago, there was no certainty that we would be watching sports and movies on little mobile screens or that outfits like Netflix would engage us by streaming series a season at a time.
James Barron / New York Times:
Enquirer changes editors, plans return from Florida to lower Manhattan — The Enquirer Is Returning to Where It All Started — “Michael Douglas Marked for Death!!” “Angelina Walks In on Brad & Jen.” “Space Platform Circling Mars — Living Creatures May Be Aboard.”
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FishbowlNY
Annabel Symington / Wall Street Journal:
Pakistan Declines to Renew Visas of Indian Journalists — ISLAMABAD—Pakistan has declined to renew the visas of the only two Indian journalists based there, according to a government official. The two have been told they must leave the country within a week, people familiar with the matter said.
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Kirk LaPointe's …, Wall Street Journal, Committee to Protect …, @tallstories and @andrewbuncombe
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Marc Andreessen annotates on News Genius a 1994 NPR memo about the internet — Marc Andreessen annotates that NPR Internet memo — Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has, with others, annotated NPR's much-shared “Internet is coming to NPR!” memo on News Genius, the news-annotation site attached …
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@lererventures
Michael Kranish / The Boston Globe:
Facebook's push of “related articles” to users without checking credibility draws fire — A surprise awaited Facebook users who recently clicked on a link to read a story about Michelle Obama's encounter with a 10-year-old girl whose father was jobless. — Facebook responded to the click …
Discussion:
@peteskomoroch and @kegill, Thanks:@steverubel
Luke Westaway / CNET:
Netflix price hike is $1 extra per month, £1 in UK and €1 in Europe — The new, higher price only affects new subscribers, the streaming service says, with existing Netflix customers exempt from paying extra for two years. — Netflix — Netflix has issued the first details …
Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:
Hoopla app streams videos, music, and audiobooks from your local library — Accessing the multimedia available at your local library no longer requires leaving the house. All you need is the Hoopla app. But, you'll still need a library card. — The Hoopla app grants instant access …
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Twitter backtracks, will provide full data to companies highlighting tweets for TV, even if they work with Facebook — Twitter Reverses Course, Decides to Play Nicely with Facebook, TV Networks — Twitter has decided to get along with Facebook, after all. — At least when it comes to displaying posts on TV.
Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
Dish aims to launch Web TV service by year's end — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dish says it plans to launch its Internet-delivered TV service by year's end on mobile devices, game consoles and smart TVs for about $20 to $30 a month. It will contain live sports, entertainment and children's programming.
Discussion:
Forbes and Hollywood Reporter
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
News-specs? CNN wants citizen journalists to contribute via Google Glass — CNN's iReport is probably about as mainstream a citizen journalist platform as you'll find, giving budding hacks a genuine conduit for making it into the mainstream media. Indeed, CNN producers monitor the contributions …
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CNN, SlashGear, ZDNet and Glass Almanac
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