Mediagazer: Chinese Man Sues State-Owned Telecom Operator for Denying Google Access (Agence France-Presse)

11:55 AM ET, September 5, 2014

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Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:

Bloomberg Returns to an Organization Looking for a Vision — IN late 2007, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg rolled his chair over to Deputy Mayor Daniel L. Doctoroff's desk inside the bullpen at City Hall and suggested that they go to a nearby table to talk. The mayor knew that Mr. Doctoroff …

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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Faces a More Competitive Marketplace, Strained Relations With Financial Institutions

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Anne Marie Squeo / Netflix US & Canada Blog:

Netflix Supports FCC Chairman's Call for Increased Broadband Competition — Nearly everything we do today requires an Internet connection. Its persistent, increasing presence in our lives makes today's comments by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler all the more important.

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Tom Risen / US News: Larry Flynt, Video Games and the Potential Fallout of Net Neutrality

Gautham Nagesh / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Chief Promises Increased Competition in High-Speed Internet Access

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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

GQ's Chris Mitchell Named Vanity Fair Publisher as Conde Changes Keep Coming — Wired Publisher Howard Mittman Moves to GQ — Castro Innovation — Conde Nast has named Chris Mitchell, VP-publisher of GQ, to the same position at sibling title Vanity Fair.

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Kenneth Li / Re/code:

Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp said he's taking cues from NatGeo; doesn't plan to “bleed Time Inc.” — Time Inc. to Take Page From National Geographic Playbook — Time Inc. will borrow a page from the National Geographic playbook to revive its declining print empire.

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Time Inc. Wants the Right to Outsource Most of Its Union Jobs

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Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Diller's Vimeo makes push at Toronto Film Festival — Naked yoga videos, an Eminem boxing film and a unique collection of thought-provoking independent movies are helping Barry Diller's video platform Vimeo create a new distribution model for online content.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

7 problems with Politico Magazine's hit piece on Glenn Greenwald — Politico Magazine's Michael Hirsh has written a hit piece on Glenn Greenwald. It is terrible, in precisely seven ways. — Problem No. 1: Wimpy, pusillanimous, cowardly headline-and-subhead combo. — Here's how the piece presents itself to readers:

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Edmund Lee / Re/code:

Ex-NYT exec editor Jill Abramson on the paper's future and on what she wants to do next — Former New York Times Editor Jill Abramson on the Paper's Future — Jill Abramson still doesn't know why she was fired as the top editor of the New York Times. — “I'm still trying to sort of figure that out.

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Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

Washington Post eyes national scale for its events business — Jeff Bezos' crusade to make The Washington Post relevant to more than just D.C. insiders is extending to the newspaper's events business as well. — The newspaper announced on Thursday that it will be launching “America Answers …

Ken Silverstein / The Intercept:

The CIA's Mop-Up Man: L.A. Times Reporter Cleared Stories With Agency Before Publication — A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.

Agence France-Presse:

Chinese Man Sues State-Owned Telecom Operator for Denying Google Access — A Chinese man threw a rare official spotlight on the country's Internet controls when he sued a state-owned telecom operator for denying him access to US search engine Google, documents and reports showed Friday.

South China Morning Post:

Eight Shanghai journalists, PR executives detained over alleged extortion scam — Shanghai police have detained eight people from a financial news website and two public relations firms for allegedly threatening to print critical news reports about companies if they did not pay to suppress them.

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Dave McNary / Variety:

Warner Bros. CEO Confirms Layoffs in Memo to Staff — Warner Bros. Entertainment chairman and CEO Kevin Tsujihara has told Warner Bros. employees that layoffs are coming at every level across the studio. — Tsujihara did not disclose how many cuts will take place.

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Carolyn Kellogg / Los Angeles Times:

Hachette author Janet Fitch asks Bezos to weigh impact on literature in Amazon dispute — Janet Fitch reveals her letter to Amazon's Jeff Bezos — Another writer has decided to speak up about the business dealings of Amazon: Janet Fitch, who after signing the Authors United letter, has gone a step further.

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Publishers Weekly:
Authors United Preparing New Amazon Initiative

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Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

ESPN's President John Skipper predicts millennials will trade up from cheap Internet TV to pricier cable — ESPN Thinks Millennials Will Graduate From Cheap Web TV to Expensive Cable — ESPN is the cable network that commands the highest subscriber fees in the U.S. …

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Ron Corben / Voice of America:

Thai Media Pressured Under Military Rule — Since seizing power in May, Thailand's military government has kept a firm grip on local news media as part of efforts to clamp down on political dissent. Critics say the steps to control the media are getting more extensive and repressive …