Mediagazer: Viacom Draws Lawmaker's Rebuke for Blocking TV Streaming (Shalini Ramachandran/Wall Street Journal)

12:10 AM ET, November 22, 2014

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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Viacom Draws Lawmaker's Rebuke for Blocking TV Streaming … Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, expressed concern that media giant Viacom Inc. is blocking cable operator Suddenlink Communications's customers from streaming TV shows on Viacom websites …

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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

Changes at FT to promote thinking ‘in digital terms’ — Editor Lionel Barber says changes are planned for next year to reflect the importance of multimedia journalism — The Financial Times is planning “big changes” in the newsroom for 2015 as its journalists “increasingly …