Mediagazer: Pakistan tells two Indian journalists to leave within week (Katharine Houreld/Reuters)

7:15 AM ET, May 14, 2014

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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.

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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.

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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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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
FCC Twitter chat on net neutrality proves useful; draft to ask whether fast lanes should be banned, public comment period extended to 60 days

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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:
FCC considers treating cable firms like utilities in net neutrality debate

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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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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 …

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 …

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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

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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.”

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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.