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Travis J. Tritten / Stars & Stripes:
NBC's Brian Williams apologizes for false story about being shot down by enemy fire in Iraq after soldiers protest — NBC's Brian Williams recants Iraq story after soldiers protest — WASHINGTON — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter hit …
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
The various versions of the RPG hit helicopter story as told by Brian Williams over 12 years — Veterans force NBC's Brian Williams to apologize — NBC News anchor Brian Williams said on NBC Nightly News Wednesday he made a mistake when he said on the air last week that he had been in a …
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The Verge:
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo takes personal responsibility for company's troll problem, vows stronger action against harrassment — Twitter CEO: ‘We suck at dealing with abuse’ — Dick Costolo says trolls are costing Twitter users — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is taking personal responsibility …
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Apple is Talking to TV Programmers About Its Own Web TV Service — Apple has spent years circling the TV business, without ever really getting into the TV business. Now it may be ready to try again. — Industry executives say Apple is in talks with TV programmers about deals …
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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
Apple plans all-new Beats-based music service integrated into iOS, iTunes, and Apple TV, develops Android app in-house, considers charging $8/month
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Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom:
FCC's vague general conduct rule against harming consumers could be a loophole — The FCC's net neutrality proposal is awesome, but has a loophole — Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock — Credit: Gigaom illustration adapted from Shutterstock
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
ISPs, wireless carriers, and Washington insiders react to FCC's net neutrality proposal
ISPs, wireless carriers, and Washington insiders react to FCC's net neutrality proposal
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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:
Comcast, Cable Stocks Rise as FCC Won't Try to Control Rates
Comcast, Cable Stocks Rise as FCC Won't Try to Control Rates
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
How Netflix helped change the FCC's definition of net neutrality
How Netflix helped change the FCC's definition of net neutrality
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Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business:
Twitter Reaches Deal to Show Tweets in Google Search Results — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. has struck a deal with Google Inc. to make its 140-character updates more searchable online. — In the first half of this year, tweets will start to be visible …
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Michael Wolff / GQ:
A look at the candidates for Guardian top editor: Janine Gibson, Katharine Viner, Emily Bell, and Ian Katz — The poisoned chalice: who will succeed Alan Rusbridger? — Having transformed his paper from Fleet Street also-ran to international white knight (and money pit), Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger is stepping down.
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Journalism.org:
Majority of investigative journalists believe the US has collected their phone, email, or online data — Investigative Journalists and Digital Security — Perceptions of Vulnerability and Changes in Behavior — About two-thirds of investigative journalists surveyed (64%) …
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Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
Shout Factory TV launches free, ad-supported streaming of classic and cult TV shows — SHOUT FACTORY'S NEW STREAMING SERVICE CELEBRATES THE STUFF THE BIG GUYS DON'T CARE ABOUT — 2015 seems like a rather late date to be launching a new streaming service for TV shows and movies.
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Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed's plans to join Snapchat's Discover news feature fell apart over creative differences — Why The BuzzFeed-Snapchat Discover Deal Fell Through — When Snapchat last month debuted its Discover feature — a new section within the app that shows articles and videos from a range of media companies …
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Gregory Ferenstein / VentureBeat:
Wearable World incubator acquires tech blog ReadWrite — VentureBeat has learned that Say Media has sold the technology blog ReadWrite to Silicon Valley-based incubator Wearable World for an undisclosed amount. — We reached out to Wearable World CEO Redg Snodgrass, and he confirmed that our sources were correct.
Mike Murphy / Quartz:
GoPro gets closer to becoming a media company with its new Roku channel — GoPro continued its march toward its goal of becoming a media company on Feb. 5, with the announcement of its new channel on the streaming media player Roku, which will launch in the spring.
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Carter Maness / The Awl:
Despite assumption that everything stays online forever a music freelancer finds 2,000 posts have vanished — All My Blogs Are Dead — A couple of months ago, I pitched a feature on the music industry that I was totally qualified to write. But the editor questioned my experience …
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Saba Hamedy / Los Angeles Times:
Kodak reaches agreement with studios to help keep making movie film — Eastman Kodak Co., one of the world's most recognizable film suppliers, finalized agreements with Hollywood studios to keep celluloid in the future of film. — The company said Wednesday that it will continue …
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