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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
Bloomberg explains its strategy for success in online TV — Long before Fox, CBS, or HBO debuted options for on-demand streaming video, business news-oriented cable channel Bloomberg was already available online and on many connected devices. — This, of course, is significant …
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TVNewser, @jayrosen_nyu and @niemanlab, Thanks:@claresayas
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Politico launches redesigned fully responsive site, with emphasis on enterprise stories — Welcome to the new POLITICO! — A note from the editor. — We're delighted to share with you this morning an updated website that we hope reflects the best of what we aim to provide our readers …
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Poynter, FishbowlDC, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, @keithurbahn, @sbg1 and @niemanlab
Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
HuffPost Live Joins Hulu Lineup (Exclusive) — HuffPost Live content launches early Monday morning on Hulu, TheWrap has learned. — The digital video arm of The Huffington Post now has its own page on Hulu, with one-hour long episodes of HuffPost Live added daily.
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FishbowlNY, @roysekoff and VideoInk
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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Variety, Forbes, The Wrap, Latest News & Headlines, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Home Media Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable, Pocket-lint, ZDNet, Techdirt and VideoInk
Mandy de Waal / IJNet:
How a South African news site gives youth a voice and a vocation — Even though South Africa's census data shows youth makes up 59 percent of a 51.7 million population, news operations that cater exclusively to a young demographic are rare. — Now a news site has stepped in to fill this gap.
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@pontsho_pilane, @azadessa, @raediology and @ijnet
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Stephen Lurie / Matter:
Wikimedia's 36 “stewards” use their global editing rights to police and manage all Wiki sites — The 36 People Who Run Wikipedia — What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together.
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@jamestylerespn and @readmatter
Laura Miller / Salon:
Q&A with Cory Doctorow on copyright law, how artists are impacted by the internet, and DRM — Cory Doctorow: “We're all sharecroppers in Google's fields for the rest of eternity” — The novelist talks about the totalitarian perils of copyright law and how the Internet is changing art
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@erodley
Keith Gessen / Vanity Fair:
How Did Amazon End Up as Literary Enemy No. 1? — Amazon's war with publishing giant Hachette over e-book pricing has earned it a black eye in the media, with the likes of Philip Roth, James Patterson, and Stephen Colbert demanding that the online mega-store stand down.
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@ks1729, @pernillet, @sethmnookin and GalleyCat
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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Mediaite, The Wrap and Digital Spy
Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTube Network Fullscreen Acquires Digital Studio Rooster Teeth — Fullscreen, one of the largest YouTube multichannel networks, has acquired pioneering digital studio Rooster Teeth. — Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fullscreen — which itself was recently acquired by Otter Media …
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Reuters, VentureBeat, MediaPost, MarketWatch, Hollywood Reporter, VideoInk, The Slanted and Tubefilter
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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@charliebeckett, @akarlin88 and Observer
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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Mashable
Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
Islamic Extremists Use YouTube's Automated Copyright Dispute Process To Access Critics' Personal Data — YouTube's infringement reporting system is — like many others around the web — fundamentally broken. Making bogus copyright claims is still an easy way to get channels shut down or to siphon ad revenue from existing videos.