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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, @reckless, 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, Hollywood Reporter, @andrewlapin, AllAccess.com, @rafat, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, @brianstelter, Variety, Radio & Television …, @bob_mondello, @vivian, @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, Reuters, Businessweek, AppleInsider, @caseynewton, @daamitt and @dannysullivan
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Wall Street Journal:
Beats CEO's industry clout could help strengthen iTunes Radio, generate more ad revenue
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
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 …
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@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.
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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