Mediagazer: Immigration activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas released after being detained in Texas (Los Angeles Times)

11:45 PM ET, July 15, 2014

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Dominic Rushe / Guardian:

FCC extends deadline for user comments on net neutrality — Systems overwhelmed by surge in submissions protesting against plan to allow cable companies to open up ‘fast lanes’ — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was forced to extend the deadline for comments over its controversial plans …

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Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
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Vivian Yee / New York Times:

Blog Network Expands Brooklyn Coverage Area — By now, the neighbors know exactly where an associate publisher of one of Brooklyn's biggest media conglomerates works (about three feet from his bed, most days) and what he looks like. That is the way he likes it.

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Los Angeles Times:

Immigration activist and journalist Jose Antonio Vargas released after being detained in Texas — Activist released in Texas, bringing new light to immigration issues — Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and immigration rights activist who publicly announced …

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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:

PBS Leads News and Documentary Emmy Nominees — PBS leads the way with 43 News and Documentary Emmy nominations. CBS News follows close behind with 42. Announced earlier today, the 35th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented Tuesday, September 30 at the Frederick P. Rose Hall in the Time Warner Center.

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Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:

Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley's Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work? — The technology journalist Kara Swisher likes to call herself Sherlock Homo, but on a spring evening in Austin, where she'd come for the SXSW Interactive conference, she wasn't following any particular trail of clues.

Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Q2 earnings: $1.04B in revenue vs. estimated $1.08B, $0.37 EPS, $436M in display revenue — Yahoo Misses In Q2 With Revenue Of $1.04B, EPS Of $0.37 — Today after the bell, Yahoo reported its second-quarter financial performance, including revenue (excluding traffic acquisition costs …

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Kara Swisher / Re/code: Yahoo now required to sell just 140M Alibaba shares in IPO, down from 208M shares

Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Is Now in Talks With Simon & Schuster — Hachette is not the only book publisher facing down Amazon.com . — The country's largest bookseller is also in talks with Simon & Schuster, said Leslie Moonves, CEO of the publisher's parent CBS Corp. at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen …

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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:

CBS Chief Les Moonves on New Aereo Deal: 'We're Willing to Talk to Them' — CBS chief Les Moonves slammed Aereo on Tuesday after the online TV service's Supreme Court defeat, but said “we're willing to talk to them” about doing a paid content deal. — Aereo suspended its service in the wake …

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

NPR significantly weakens Ombudsman role, says job is not to “pass judgement” — NPR downgrades and disables its ombudsman — “NPR is far stronger than this short-sighted and half-assed decision suggests. It has nothing to fear from an empowered ombudsman.”

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

With new Philly news site Brother.ly, Jim Brady aims to monetize “passions, not pageviews” — Jim Brady's Philly gamble: Third time's a charm? — Jim Brady's escapades in digital news have been fraught. — As executive editor of The Washington Post's website in the mid-aughts …

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

WFMU wants to build open tools to help radio stations (and others) raise money and build community — In 1998, WFMU, a New Jersey-based freeform public radio station, began developing its own content management system. Over the past 15 years, the station has continued working on the CMS …

Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:

Tribune Publishing confirms Aug. 4 spinoff date — Tribune Publishing will spin off from Tribune Co. on Aug. 4, the new publishing company confirmed Tuesday. Tribune Publishing has applied to have its common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “TPUB” and expects to begin regular trading on Aug. 5.

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