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6:30 AM ET, November 11, 2014

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President Obama's net neutrality proposal may seem like a victory, but language surrounding interconnection and usage-based pricing lacks clarity  —  What President Obama's Net Neutrality Proposal Means  —  President Obama's broadband announcement seems like a big victory for net neutrality activists …
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Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
President asks FCC to implement Title II rules, to prevent ISPs from blocking or slowing content; FCC says it needs more time
Hanna Rosin / The New Republic:
Disgraced reporter Stephen Glass opens up to an old colleague and apologizes, 16 years after his fall  —  Hello, My Name Is Stephen Glass, and I'm Sorry  —  He nearly destroyed this magazine.  Sixteen years later, his former best friend finally confronts him.
Allison Quinn / The Moscow Times:
Kommersant Editor Steps Down Amid Rumors of Pressure From Above  —  The editor-in-chief of business daily Kommersant has resigned, triggering speculation Monday that he was forced out over a recent article in the newspaper about oil giant Rosneft.  —  While theories behind the move multiplied …
Discussion: TASS
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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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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 …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Sweden The Latest To Consider Google “Link Tax” For Newspapers  —  A member of the Swedish parliament, Niclas Malmberg, wants Google to help fund Swedish news publications along the lines of the French model established last year.  Threatened with a “link tax,” Google agreed …
Jonah Bromwich / New York Times:
Vimeo pushes into original content, funds “High Maintenance” directly, charges $2 per episode  —  With ‘High Maintenance,’ Vimeo Invests in Original Content  —  “High Maintenance,” a web series on Vimeo about the many customers of a Brooklyn marijuana dealer, has won a devoted following and plenty of critical acclaim.
Discussion: mUmBRELLA
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.
Rafat Ali / rafat.org:
The ultimate metric for media startups is how much it would be missed if it disappeared  —  The Ultimate Metric For Media Startups  —  About 10 days ago I wrote this post here about the coming correction in media startupland that got lots of conversations going in media, social media, and in private emails.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
NBC News Teams Anew With Facebook To Promote Ebola Journalism Effort  —  NBC News and Facebook have joined forces several times in the recent past - in January, 2012, for example, NBC streamed its coverage of a Republican presidential debate on the popular social network …
Discussion: The Wrap
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic Online:
Amidst the rise of digital upstarts like Gawker, local news continues to suffer  —  Is There Hope for Local News?  —  Tim Redmond was another casualty of the shrinking news business.  But he's not going to give up on covering his city.  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Tim Redmond is a local news guy.
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.
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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Dylan Byers / Politico:
AP CEO demands answers from DOJ, FBI over fake news ploy
Napier Lopez / The Next Web:
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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
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Iran's imprisonment of Jason Rezaian without evidence crushes hopes of media freedom under new regime
Jordan Chariton / The Wrap:
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Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
Islamic Extremists Use YouTube's Automated Copyright Dispute Process To Access Critics' Personal Data