Mediagazer: Apple is Talking to TV Programmers About Its Own Web TV Service (Peter Kafka/Re/code)

9:00 PM ET, February 4, 2015

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Tom Wheeler / Wired:

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler proposes Title II based net neutrality rules for wired and wireless networks — 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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Gerry Smith / Bloomberg Business:

Comcast, Cable Stocks Rise as FCC Won't Try to Control Rates — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. shares spiked after U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said that he won't try to control pricing as part of proposed regulations of Internet service providers.

Discussion: Fox Business, Consumerist and The Hill

Ben Popper / The Verge:
How Netflix helped change the FCC's definition of net neutrality

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
FCC will apply net neutrality to mobile for the first time

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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 — 'I spent much of the weekend thinking I'd gone crazy. I feel terrible about making this mistake'

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 …

Discussion: Multichannel News, VentureBeat, Variety, The Verge, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, Engadget, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Cult of Mac and Business Insider

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 …

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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 …

Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:

The Dish won't continue publishing on Andrew Sullivan's exit — A Note To Our 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.

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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 …

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.

Discussion: SocialTimes, Marketing Land, @1971capital, @_marieprevost, @burtherman and Mashable

Erik Sass / MediaPost:

Reuters TV app launches for $1.99/month, first month free, with news shows from 5-30 minutes long plus on-demand video, iPhone only for now — Reuters Debuts Reuters TV, Geared To ‘Netflix Age’ — In addition to branching out into new content areas like video, the last decade …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, 9to5Mac, @thomsonreuters and Cult of Mac

Andrew McMillen / Backchannel:

Almost all 47K edits by a top Wikipedia editor were to fix incorrect uses of “comprised of” — Meet the ultimate WikiGnome. — On a Friday in July 2012, two employees of the Wikimedia Foundation gave a talk at Wikimania, their organization's annual conference.

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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:

Peter Greste returns to Australia with pledge to fight on for fellow captives — Freed al-Jazeera journalist welcomed home by crowds but says his ‘primary job’ is pushing for colleagues' release from Egyptian prison — As Flight EK432 taxied towards the runway in Dubai in the small hours …

Discussion: Guardian, Telegraph, Toowoomba Chronicle, BBC, Mashable and Al Jazeera English

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:

A look at how CNN, Cosmo, National Geographic, People, Daily Mail, and ESPN are using Snapchat, and who's advertising there — How publishers are approaching Snapchat Discover — Snapchat's Discover has been out in the wild for only a few days, but publishers have already gotten a glimpse …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, The Butler Collegian, The Badger Herald and Iowa State Daily

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...