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Eric Blattberg / Digiday:
Reuters TV aims to personalize news broadcasts — With Reuters TV, a smart video app for news junkies, Reuters is once again trying to establish itself as a consumer brand. — The news giant unveiled Reuters TV at a Monday night soiree in its Times Square headquarters.
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Talking Biz News, @brianstelter, @digiday and @bbcsteveh
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Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web:
Reuters announces on-demand Reuters TV to launch in 2015 — International news agency Reuters just announced Reuters TV its on demand video news service coming in 2015. — The new service and companion app expands the news agency's reach beyond the written word with up-to-date news coverage …
Re/code:
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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Talking Biz News, TIME, The Verge, SocialTimes and Free Press Blog
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Aaron Pressman / Yahoo! Finance:
Obama's call for net neutrality spells trouble for Time Warner Cable-Comcast deal
Obama's call for net neutrality spells trouble for Time Warner Cable-Comcast deal
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@brianstelter, Variety, @ampressman, Businessweek, VentureBeat and Business Insider
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
President asks FCC to implement Title II rules, to prevent ISPs from blocking or slowing content; FCC says it needs more time
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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.
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@citizencohn, @ptaddonio, @eamonjavers, @dpaqreport, @mjcontrera, @chrishughes, @alecmacgillis, @carloslozadawp, @colvinius, @emilynussbaum, @speechboy71, @jayrosen_nyu and @j_fuller
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 …
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Tom Parfitt / Telegraph:
Russia launches ‘Sputnik’ media offensive to counter US propaganda
Russia launches ‘Sputnik’ media offensive to counter US propaganda
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BuzzFeed, Voice of America, Wall Street Journal and Reuters
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Russia Today threatened with Ofcom sanctions due to bias
Russia Today threatened with Ofcom sanctions due to bias
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Politico, @charliebeckett and @akarlin88
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
BuzzFeed, ABC News to use Facebook's sentiment data as a polling source for 2016 elections
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Poynter, @lheron, @ron_fournier, @dylanbyers, @jenn_clark, @mjenkins, @mikeisaac and @johnness
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, TheBlaze.com, @howardkurtz, @glennbeck, @glennbeck, The Huffington Post, @howardkurtz and Salon
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Tribune Media's Q3 earnings at $38M beat expectations, on revenue of $474.9M — Tribune Media Third-Quarter Earnings Exceed Expectations — The entertainment company led by CEO Peter Liguori was created via the split of Tribune Co. — Tribune Media, the entertainment company …
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PR Newswire, Intercooler and NASDAQ.com
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.
Press Gazette:
Met anti-terrorism database holds more than 2,000 records relating to journalists — The Metropolitan Police holds more than 2,000 records relating to journalists and photographers on a confidential anti-extemist database, it has been reported today. — The records are held …
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The Times
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 …
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@sengineland and @patrickhealy
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, @ceodonovan, @samkirkla, @velocitywong, @michaelroston and @ruths
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.
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@shamsandhu, @agolis, @alexkapelman, @mikeorren, @raju and @elizwgreen