Mediagazer: CNN Digital gets a new executive team (Jeremy Barr/Capital New York)

2:20 PM ET, November 12, 2014

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FCC's Tom Wheeler signals split with Obama on net neutrality: “I am an independent agency” — The FCC weighs breaking with Obama over the future of the Internet — Hours after President Obama called for the Federal Communications Commission to pass tougher regulations …

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David L. Cohen / Comcast Voices:
Being for net neutrality and against Title II is completely consistent

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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Comcast agrees with Obama on net neutrality, except for the legal bit

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Wall Street Journal:
Investors in Cable Deal Fret Over Talk of Broadband Regulation

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Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

CNN Digital gets a new executive team — CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker announced new leadership for its CNN Digital team Wednesday morning. — Andrew Morse, who oversees domestic newsgathering as S.V.P. for CNN US, will also now oversee editorial and operations for CNN Digital as well, adding the title of G.M.

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Reuters:

Top Yahoo shareholders, unhappy with Marissa Mayer, make direct plea to AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore merger — Exclusive: Some unhappy Yahoo investors asking AOL for rescue — (Reuters) - At least two top-10 Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) shareholders are so unhappy with Chief Executive Marissa …

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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Yahoo to Buy Video-Ad Service BrightRoll for $640 Million

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Jane Martinson / Guardian:

BBC Panorama documentary ‘deeply irresponsible’, says Mazher Mahmood — Investigative reporter known as the ‘fake sheikh’ says delayed exposé's sources are not credible and it is not in public interest — The Sun on Sunday reporter Mazher Mahmood has accused the BBC …

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Twice-delayed Panorama on Mazher Mahmood set to go out tonight - 'One day he'll thank me' says programme source

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Clifford Coonan / Hollywood Reporter:

Chinese mobile phone maker Xiaomi invests $300M in Baidu's online video site, iQiyi — China's Xiaomi to Invest $300 Million in Baidu's Online Site iQiyi — Xiaomi has also partnered with Youku Tudou to jointly invest in the production and distribution of online video content and movies

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

MPAA launches WhereToWatch site, listing legal movie and TV streams in continued fight against piracy — Here's Another Movie and TV Search Site. This One's From Hollywood. — There are so many places to find movies and TV shows. They're on TV! They're on the Internet!

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Guardian:

BBC is considering a commercial subsidiary that could include flagship show Panorama — Panorama could be split from BBC in shakeup — Flagship show and parts of current affairs could be moved out of corporation into commercial subsidiary — The BBC is considering moving flagship show Panorama …

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Mark Joyella / TVNewser:

ABC News Sent 10 Million Election Day Push Alerts While Avoiding ‘Extreme Overkill’ — On Election Day, ABC News sent a staggering 10 million push alerts to users of the ABC News app who'd signed up for alerts. Peter Roybal, Head of Mobile for ABC News, knew full well that volume of information risked extreme overkill.

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Bloomberg:

Will Ferrell's Funny Or Die Said to Consider Sale — Funny or Die, the comedy website founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, hired a financial adviser to evaluate options including a possible sale, people with knowledge of the matter said. — The site is working …

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Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Bandcamp to help musicians launch their own subscription services — Artists will be able to set their own price, release exclusive songs and send messages to their keenest fans — Bandcamp launched in 2008 as a way for musicians to run their own online stores selling their music …

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

YouTube announces YouTube Music Key subscription service; free invite-only beta starts Monday, will cost $7.99/month after 6 months — YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service — Ad-free music and music videos starting at $7.99 a month — After spending months on revisions …

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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

Kickstarter-funded Latterly, an online mag for narrative journalism, to launch this month — Stories not ‘clicks’: new online magazine won't monitor web traffic, say founders — Latterly, an ad-free publication for narrative journalism, will finance itself through crowdfunding and user subscriptions

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

At press conference with Obama, China leader lectures U.S. media — BEIJING — Moments of high drama played out at President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping's joint press conference here Wednesday, as the Chinese leader appeared to be snubbing the U.S. by ignoring …

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Belfast Telegraph:

UK Culture Secretary promises greater press protections in proposed British Bill of Rights — Rights Bill to protect journalists — Culture Secretary Sajid Javid has promised protection for the free press in a new British Bill of Rights — Legislation introduced to fight serious crime …

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