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4:35 PM ET, February 4, 2015

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Tom Wheeler / Wired:
FCC Chairman proposes using Title II authority to implement and enforce open internet protections  —  FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality  —  Federal Communication Commission(FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler waits for a hearing at the FCC December 11, 2014 in Washington, DC.
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
How Netflix helped change the FCC's definition of net neutrality  —  Turns out Tom Wheeler isn't such a dingo  —  Back in March of 2014, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote a blog post accusing the major internet service providers of imposing unfair tolls on companies, like his …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
FCC will apply net neutrality to mobile for the first time
Discussion: @elisewho
Nicky Woolf / Guardian:
Fox News website embeds unedited Isis video showing brutal murder of Jordanian pilot  —  Fox News is only US media company to display extremely graphic 22-minute video showing Muadh al-Kasasbeh being set on fire and burning to death in a cage  —  Fox News has chosen to embed on its website …
Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
The Dish won't continue publishing on Andrew Sullivan's exit  —  A Note To My Readers, Ctd  —  It's been a highly emotional and tough week for the Dish team, especially given the outpouring of love from the in-tray.  We're so grateful and not a little moved by your insistence that the Dish somehow go on, post-Sully.
Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:
Apple plans all-new Beats-based music service integrated into iOS, iTunes, and Apple TV, develops Android app in-house, considers charging $8/month  —  The Next Episode: Apple's plans for Beats-based music service revealed  —  Six months after buying the subscription music service Beats Music …
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Publishers using WordPress and Drupal can try out a beta version of Amber, a plugin from Harvard's Berkman Center that archives links to prevent linkrot  —  Amber, a new tool to prevent linkrot on websites, is out in beta  —  Ever seen a news story from a few years back …
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter is testing a new landing page featuring curated tweets for people without accounts  —  Another Twitter Update!  This One's a New Homepage, Designed to Lure New Users.  —  Twitter is showing off yet another new product tweak — a homepage designed for people who visit Twitter but don't have their own account.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Analyst Gordon Borrell sees local digital ads soaring in 2015, but not for newspapers  —  Gordon Borrell, among the best known of digital advertising analysts, was predicting two years ago that the newspaper business would stabilize, with some companies growing their digital revenues 30 percent a year.
Discussion: @poynter, @poynter and Street Fight
John Plunkett / Guardian:
Sky half-year results see 5% revenue rise to £5.6B and operating profits up 16% to £675M  —  Sky profits rise 16% after strong UK and German demand  —  Pay-TV group beats analysts' forecasts in its first results as a European operation  —  Strong demand for pay-TV in the UK …
Keira Lu Huang / South China Morning Post:
Dismay as Hong Kong TV dramas fall under China's ‘foreign’ production censorship  —  Many Chinese fans of television dramas - already displeased after regulators tightened censorship of foreign productions airing on mainland TVs and video portals - are dismayed after discovering popular Hong Kong productions are also subject to...
David Bauder / Associated Press:
John Oliver's satirical Last Week Tonight continues to hire researchers from news backgrounds  —  Oliver Bulking Up on Staff With News Experience  —  NEW YORK (AP) — John Oliver says that he's hired three new researchers to help with what has become his HBO show's signature …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
YouTube experiments with letting viewers choose multiple camera angles, to be tested by select performers  —  YouTube Launches Multi-Angle Video Experiment  —  Here is a small but fun experiment that YouTube is rolling out today: videos that let you switch between different camera angles while the video is playing.
David Bloom / Deadline:
MiTu Online-Video Network Raises $15 Million In Series B Funding  —  MiTu, the Latino-oriented online-video network, said it has raised 50 percent more than it initially had announced in a Series B round that now totals $15 million.  The company also announced the hiring of Martha E. Flores …
Guardian:
Police make 600 applications to trace journalists' sources, watchdog finds  —  Demands for journalists' telephone and email records were made in 34 inquiries into suspected leaks by public officials, report says  —  Nineteen police forces have made more than 600 applications …
Discussion: @rj_gallagher
 
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