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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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Bloomberg Business, Forbes, @karlbode, Motherboard, @normative, @kwerb and @superwuster
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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Elite Daily, Gigaom and The Intercept
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, @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, Hollywood Reporter, broadcastnow.co.uk, RadioTimes, The Conversation, Broadband TV News, UK Parliament, The Next Web and RadioTimes
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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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Medium, @kimbhasin, The Next Web and @harrymccracken
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
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
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Digital news startup Vocativ cuts staff — Vocativ, the digital news startup that has long claimed to mine the “deep Web” for stories, laid off several editorial staffers today, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to Capital. — One source with knowledge of the situation pegged the number at eight, and another, at nine.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Ex-Times editor Jill Abramson inks $1M book deal — Simon & Schuster has won the bidding for the first book by former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson since she was booted from her job last May, The Post has learned. — The winning price was not disclosed but is believed …
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Nieman Lab, Politico, Guardian, TVNewser, Gawker, GalleyCat, New York Times, Washington Times, Poynter, @jembradshaw, New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, @rcallimachi and @mlcalderone
Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom:
Snapchat Our Story viewership is comparable to popular television shows with tens of millions of views — Snapchat's “Our Stories” are generating tens of millions of views — Screenshots of Twitter users whose snaps saw tens of millions of views in a Snapchat “Our Story”
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@khanoisseur, @lionpubs, @rod3000, @carmeldea and @mikebornstein
CNN:
Al Jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy try to return to routine life pending next hearing March 8 — Freed Al Jazeera journalist: I can't get back my baby's first 6 months — Jailed journalists back in court 03:30 — Story highlights — Cairo (CNN)Everyone is on a mission to make up for lost time.
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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