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What President Obama's Net Neutrality Proposal Means — President Obama's broadband announcement seems like a big victory for net neutrality activists, as well as Web content companies like Netflix. — But it's important to remember that his announcement is just that — a statement, not a law.
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Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
Obama tells the FCC to implement real net neutrality. And he's serious. — President Obama has come out strongly and specifically in favor of “bright-line rules” that will protect network neutrality. Now the FCC just has to write them. — Proving himself the policy nerd that pundits deride …
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Aaron Pressman / Yahoo! Finance:
Obama's call for net neutrality spells trouble for Time Warner Cable-Comcast deal — The fight for an open Internet just got a lot stronger, as President Obama waded into the fray and issued a call for utility-style regulation to limit the power of phone and cable companies.
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Businessweek, Variety, @brianstelter, @ampressman, BuzzFeed and VentureBeat
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Russia Today threatened with Ofcom sanctions due to bias — Kremlin-backed news channel found guilty of breaching UK broadcasting regulations in coverage of Ukraine crisis — Russia Today has been threatened with statutory sanctions by media regulator Ofcom after the Kremlin-backed news …
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Politico, @charliebeckett and @akarlin88
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Tom Parfitt / Telegraph:
Russia launches ‘Sputnik’ media offensive to counter US propaganda
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Wall Street Journal, Voice of America, BuzzFeed and Reuters
Allison Quinn / The Moscow Times:
Kommersant Editor Steps Down Amid Rumors of Pressure From Above
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Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
BuzzFeed's deal with Facebook to measure political sentiment has one major flaw — BuzzFeed has formed a partnership with Facebook that gives it access to the social network's “sentiment analysis” data on millions of users — but Facebook's algorithm is going to influence the thing that BuzzFeed …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed, ABC News to use Facebook's sentiment data as a polling source for 2016 elections
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@jenn_clark, @mikeisaac, @ron_fournier, @dylanbyers, @mjenkins, @lheron and @johnness
Matt Buchanan / The Awl:
Modified paywall returns Tuesday to New Yorker, with 6 free articles/month, no free archive — A Paywall Rises — We are quite reliably told that tomorrow, the Web site of the New Yorker, the last magazine in the world, will no longer offer the entirety of its archives, going back to 2007, for free.
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@tcarmody, @choire, @michaelroston, @ceodonovan, @samkirkla, @velocitywong and @ruths
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Glenn Beck of The Blaze announces that he's recovering from debilitating neurological illness — Glenn Beck Suffering From Rare Neurological Illness That ‘Made Me Look Crazy’ — On Monday evening, Glenn Beck revealed to his audience at TheBlaze that for the last five years he has been suffering …
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TVNewser, @glennbeck, @glennbeck, Salon, TheBlaze.com and @howardkurtz
Jared Malsin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why did Iran imprison Jason Rezaian? — The Washington Post reporter has been inside Evin prison for more than three months — Everywhere he traveled in the world, Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian invited people to visit Iran, where he has lived for nearly 10 years, and reported for the Post since 2012.
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Yvonne Villarreal / Los Angeles Times:
Following The Newsroom's third and final season, Aaron Sorkin says he's done with television — Aaron Sorkin signs off from TV ... maybe — It was just after 11:30 a.m. when Aaron Sorkin rose from the hulking leather club chair in his office to light a cigarette and announce his retirement from television.
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Inside TV, Mediaite, The Wrap and Digital Spy
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
How to be literate in what's changing journalism — In my ‘digital thinking’ class, the goal is for students to emerge fully literate in the changes affecting journalism. Here are the main currents and trends that I expect them to master by the close of the term.
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@jkristufek, @sarah__bartlett, @jayrosen_nyu and @dangillmor
Napier Lopez / The Next Web:
Machinima rebrands its gaming network to focus on original programming — Machinima is one of the most popular hubs for gamers to get their media fix - their YouTube channel is full of original animations made using videogame models, as well as general content concerning a variety of fandoms.
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StreamDaily, VideoInk and Tubefilter
Tamar Wilner / Columbia Journalism Review:
Knoxville's alt-weekly wasn't losing money. It got shut down anyway — Scripps pulls the plug on Metro Pulse in favor of an entertainment supplement for the local daily — In mid-October, the entire staff of Metro Pulse, Knoxville's alt-weekly, was laid off.
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