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1:00 AM ET, May 14, 2014

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Reuters:
French journalist murdered in Central African Republic: Hollande  —  (Reuters) - A French journalist has been murdered in Central African Republic, President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement on Tuesday, the first Western reporter to be killed in the country since France sent troops there in December.
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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.
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.
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Reuters:
Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet
Dan Appenfeller / AJR.org:
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.
Emma Hall / AdAge:
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 by revenue, maintained its acquisition momentum in the first quarter by striking deals for 6 tech firms …
Discussion: MediaWire Daily
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.
Dara Kerr / CNET:
Vimeo banned in Indonesia for allegedly hustling porn  —  The country's anti-pornography law forbids any sort of nudity, something the government claims it found in roughly 15,000 videos on the streaming site.  —  Vimeo  —  Vimeo doesn't allow porn on its site, but it does let users upload “artistic” and “non-sexual nudity.”
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
AT&T's interest in DirecTV is less about strategic fit and more about gaining access to the satellite operator's massive cash flow  —  AT&T's interest in DirecTV is less about strategic fit and more about gaining access to the satellite operator's massive cash flow.  —  Shannon Stapleton / Reuters / Reuters
Discussion: @peterlauria3, Businessweek and Forbes
Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
NYT photographer constructs backpack kit with 4 modems to stream photos live to the newsroom  —  Times photo staffer's invention: the streaming backpack  —  Back during the 2012 presidential campaign, New York Times photographer Josh Haner was right at the scrum, trailing presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney …
Richard Byrne Reilly / VentureBeat:
Bezos invests in WaPo's IT infrastructure, software development, social media team, apps, more  —  The Washington Post is hitting a new ‘prime’ time under Amazon founder's wings  —  Above: WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 6: Shailesh Prakash, The Washington Post Chief Information Officer, left …
Discussion: @attackerman, @ktumulty, @raju and @superfem
Bradley Campbell / PRI:
Orwellian threats caused the New York Times to spike a story on NSA spying way back in 2004  —  It was about a year ago that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden got two journalists into a Hong Kong hotel room, where he divulged some of the biggest US state secrets in modern history.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Katherine Goldstein is the new editor of Vanity Fair's website  —  Katherine Goldstein will be the new editor of Vanity Fair's website, VF.com, Vanity Fair said in a press release. … Goldstein, who is currently director of social media and traffic at Slate, worked at the Huffington Post before that.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @poynter
Julie Posetti / Mediashift:
Guardian's Janine Gibson: Storytelling Is Going Real-Time or Long-Form  —  Janine Gibson was editor of the Guardian US and she led the paper's New York coverage of the Edward Snowden story to industry acclaim.  Now, she's headed back to London as editor in chief of theguardian.com.
Discussion: @pbsidealab and @niemanlab, Thanks:@pbsidealab
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Greenwald to Colbert: Next NSA story will make ‘biggest impact’  —  In an interview last night with Stephen Colbert, Glenn Greenwald of the Intercept said that he's working on a story that will have the “biggest impact” of his various pieces on the modern U.S. surveillance state.
 
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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
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Quartz pushes the experimental news envelope by using Dave Winer's outliner software
Discussion: @kevinokeefe and Poynter
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
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Slate's curated links are actually paid for ads from content recommendation engine Outbrain
 Earlier Picks: 
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comcast and Turner Ink VOD, Ad Pact for Current and Past Seasons
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
Programs on Demand, Just for PBS Members
Discussion: The New York Observer
Samuel Gibbs / Guardian:
Beats Music has just 111,000 registered accounts, leaked figures show
Adriana Lee / ReadWrite:
Goodbye, TV Channels—And Hello, TV Apps
Discussion: @rww