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8:55 AM ET, May 14, 2014

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Dan Appenfeller / American Journalism Review:
Copy Editors Carve Niche in Digital Media Landscape  —  Abraham Hyatt saw the writing on the wall.  —  More than a year into his three-year managing editor stint at ReadWrite, a popular technology news site, Hyatt watched traffic plummet from roughly 5 million pageviews a month to less than 3 million.
Amy Schatz / Re/code:
Letter from major ISPs urges FCC not to reclassify broadband as a utility  —  Internet Providers Strike Back on Net Neutrality  —  In a surprise to no one, Internet providers warned federal regulators that treating broadband like phone lines will stunt future investments and service upgrades.
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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
FCC considers treating cable firms like utilities in net neutrality debate
Frances Robinson / Wall Street Journal:
Google Faces Challenges in Europe After Privacy Ruling  —  Surprise Decision Will Have Implications for Privacy Throughout Europe  —  BRUSSELS—Individuals can ask Google Inc. to remove links to news articles, court judgments and other documents in search results for their name, the European Union's highest court said Tuesday.
Emma Hall / AdAge:
WPP leads acquisitions race with 6 tech firms and 10 marketing/communications companies bought in Q1 2014  —  WPP Leads Acquisition Trail Again to Start the Year  —  Sorrell's Group Buys More Tech Companies  —  Festival  —  Internet Week New York  —  WPP, the largest agency holding company …
Discussion: MediaWire Daily
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Cord cutters use 7x more bandwidth than cable TV watchers - Sandvine  —  Here's a question that may be increasingly relevant for some of you: If you don't pay for cable, and you get all your video from the Internet instead, how much bandwidth do you eat up each month?  —  Quite a bit, it turns out.
Discussion: Gigaom
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Atlantic Media and other publishers supplement ad income by building sites for others  —  To make ends meet, publishers get moonlighting gigs  —  When the conservative Heritage Foundation built its new news site, The Daily Signal, it didn't work with a traditional design agency.
Katharine Houreld / Reuters:
Pakistan tells two Indian journalists to leave within week  —  (Reuters) - Pakistan has told both Indian journalists stationed in Islamabad that they must leave within a week, the journalists told Reuters on Wednesday, saying they had been informed that their visas would not be renewed.
Discussion: Gulf News, @tonytharakan and DNA India
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Time Inc. execs line up at spinoff trough  —  As Time Inc. insiders brace for a new round of pre-spinoff layoffs that are expected to begin next week, recently unveiled numbers show the top brass at the publisher are not sharing in the pain.  —  Norman Pearlstine, the executive vice president …
Discussion: MediaWire Daily
Nic Christensen / mUmBRELLA:
Mail Online soft launches Australian content as Nielsen rankings remain stable  —  The Mail Online has switched its website to largely Australian content, in what appears to be a full launch for one of the newest entrants in the Australian online news space.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
London Live TV company ESTV lost more than £1m in 13 months  —  New figures reveal Evening Standard owner Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny invested £2m to help set up service  —  The company behind the London Live TV channel has reported a loss of more than £1m …
Discussion: Press Gazette
Reporters Without Borders:
Special court begins hearing contempt charges against two journalists  —  The Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which is based in The Hague, today began hearing “contempt of court” and “obstruction of justice” charges against two Lebanese journalists, Karma Khayat, the deputy news director of Al-Jadeed TV …
Discussion: New York Times
B&T:
Newspaper mastheads up even though print readership down  —  Many of Australia's major newspapers have upped their masthead audiences, even though fewer people are reading the print editions.  —  Seven out of the ten main capital city daily newspapers increased their masthead audiences …
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
RIP Camille Lepage, French photojournalist killed in Central African Republic  —  On Tuesday, the office of the French president confirmed the death of Camille Lepage, a 26-year-old French photographer, who was killed while working in the war-torn Central African Republic.
 
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Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
Popcorn Time Is Now On Android  —  Hollywood's worst nightmare just went mobile.
Discussion: The Next Web and Ubergizmo
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Greenwald to Colbert: Next NSA story will make ‘biggest impact’
Bradley Campbell / PRI:
Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Quartz pushes the experimental news envelope by using Dave Winer's outliner software
Discussion: @kevinokeefe
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
NYT photographer constructs backpack kit with 4 modems to stream photos live to the newsroom
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Texas Tribune launches its new combination op-ed page/sponsored content pitch
Discussion: TribTalk
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Hulu Hires Netflix's Jenny Wall as Marketing Chief
Discussion: Hulu Blog and Hollywood Reporter
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Katherine Goldstein is the new editor of Vanity Fair's website
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @poynter
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