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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC enforces net neutrality, voting to regulate broadband providers as common carriers under Title II and ban paid fast lanes — FCC votes for net neutrality, a ban on paid fast lanes, and Title II — Internet providers are now common carriers, and they're ready to sue.
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Tim Wu / New Yorker:
Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality — Today, the Federal Communications Commission, by a vote of three to two, enacted its strongest-ever rules on net neutrality, preserving an open Internet by prohibiting broadband providers from blocking or slowing content that flows across their pipes.
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Gigaom, Forbes, Sonic.net Blog, Engadget, @jayrosen_nyu, Bloomberg Business, @halsinger, @karlbode, Motherboard, @kwerb, @normative, @superwuster, Wall Street Journal and Mashable
Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
How John Oliver Transformed the Net Neutrality Debate Once and for All — It started with a case of coyote urine. — Before June 1, 2014, just four episodes of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver had aired. The weekly, half-hour HBO show took on current affairs from comedic angle.
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Forbes, Gigaom and Elite Daily
Jon Swaine / Guardian:
Bill O'Reilly's LA riots ‘bombardment’ stories disputed by former colleagues — Fox News host, whose stories of past reporting exploits are under renewed scrutiny, claimed ‘we were attacked by protesters’ when covering the 1992 riots — Former colleagues of Bill O'Reilly …
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly now scrutinized for story of murdered nuns
Bill O'Reilly now scrutinized for story of murdered nuns
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Washington Post, USA Today, Salon, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, Deadline and Salon
Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
New York Daily News Owner Is Considering Selling The Paper — The owner told employees in a memo. — I want to share with you a new development regarding the company. — A few weeks ago, we were approached about our potential interest in — selling the Daily News. Although there were no immediate plans to
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Capital New York, Poynter, New York Times, @dylanbyers and New York Magazine
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
BBC future report: collaborate with regional newspaper publishers — re we about to see the BBC and the regional press, to use my colleague John Plunkett's endearing phrase, “getting into bed with each other”? — Clearly, the MPs want to see the public service broadcaster and commercial publishers settle their differences.
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Guardian, broadcastnow.co.uk, RadioTimes, The Conversation, The Next Web, RadioTimes, Hollywood Reporter, Broadband TV News and UK Parliament
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Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
BBC's licence fee should be decriminalised then scrapped, MPs say
BBC's licence fee should be decriminalised then scrapped, MPs say
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Daily Mail, birminghampost, BBC, Guardian and The Independent
Chris Johanesen / BuzzFeed:
BuzzFeed uses apps to focus on richer experiences with different types of stories with varying reader interest — What The Hell Are We Doing With Apps? — You might have heard we are working on a news app. You might have heard that we've recently acquired not one, but two app companies.
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Nieman Lab, Fast Company, @niemanlab, @s_m_i, @cap, VatorNews, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Business Insider Australia, Engadget and TechCrunch
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:
Mobile news app Circa launches responsive website to tap Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter traffic — WHY CIRCA'S BRINGING NEWS FROM SMARTPHONES TO... YOUR WORK COMPUTER? — Mobile news app Circa is gearing up for a big change: They're jumping to the web. A new responsive web homepage …
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@kimbhasin, The Next Web, @harrymccracken and Medium
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Bloomberg's Justin Smith: ‘Platforms have done a better job at media.’ — It has been a year and a half since Justin Smith became the global CEO of the Bloomberg Media Group with the mandate of making the Bloomberg LP media arm a household name with business executives around the world.
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FishbowlNY, @niemanlab, Media Wire Daily, AdExchanger and Capital New York, Thanks:@amandabcowie
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Fortune announces five hires, including senior writer Leena Rao, moving from Google Ventures and formerly managing editor of TechCrunch — Fortune announces hires, promotions — I am very happy to announce a big group of new hires and well-deserved promotions of Fortune staffers.
Alex Barinka / Bloomberg Business:
Aereo assets bring less than $2M at auction, firm hoped for $4M-$31.2M; TiVo buys trademark, customer lists, certain other assets — Aereo's Assets Sold for Peanuts at Bankruptcy Auction — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Aereo Inc., the online-TV service backed by Barry Diller …
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Gigaom, @sarahfrier and Mashable
J.T. Quigley / Tech in Asia:
Japan is getting an anonymous whistleblowing platform, but will journalists use it? — A Japanese university professor is building Japan's first anonymous web platform for whistleblowers. — Whistleblowing.jp will provide an untraceable way for journalists to receive leaked information without fear …
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Magazine publisher Rodale launches two online health and fitness courses, at $49.99 and $39.99; more to come in 2015 — Rodale Launches Paid Online Learning Platform — Health and wellness magazine publisher Rodale has been testing out numerous revenue-generating brand extensions in recent years …
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Media Wire Daily and Talking New Media
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Neil Young's N3twork pivots from video social network to mobile games — A couple of years ago, game creators Neil Young and Bob Stevenson launched N3twork, a new social network based on interests rather than friends. It hasn't taken off like they expected, so they're pivoting back into mobile gaming.
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