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5:20 AM ET, February 5, 2015

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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 …
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 and The Hill
Chris Welch / The Verge:
ISPs, wireless carriers, and Washington insiders react to FCC's net neutrality proposal
Discussion: Wireless Week, Re/code and TechCrunch
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
FCC will apply net neutrality to mobile for the first time
Discussion: @elisewho
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Guardian
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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
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 …
Discussion: @mikeisaac and @perlberg
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BBC:
UK police will need a judge's permission to access journalists' phone and email records  —  Judge ‘must back’ police access to journalists' sources  —  Police will need a judge's permission to access journalists' phone records, the government has said.  —  Home Secretary Theresa …
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 …
 
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Catherine Stupp / Columbia Journalism Review:
How reporters are experiencing censorship on social media
New York Magazine:
Being a Political Cartoonist in Egypt Has Always Been Hard.  It's Even Harder After the Charlie Hebdo Attacks.
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Peter Greste returns to Australia with pledge to fight on for fellow captives
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
It's confirmed: Netflix is launching in Japan this fall
Keira Lu Huang / South China Morning Post:
Dismay as Hong Kong TV dramas fall under China's ‘foreign’ production censorship
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
John Oliver's satirical Last Week Tonight continues to hire researchers from news backgrounds
Nicky Woolf / Guardian:
Fox News website embeds unedited Isis video showing brutal murder of Jordanian pilot
David Bloom / Deadline:
MiTu Online-Video Network Raises $15 Million In Series B Funding
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Above inflation pay-rise for FT journalists, with bonuses for staff who have ‘deepened audience engagement’