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5:50 PM ET, February 26, 2015

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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.
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.
Discussion: Forbes, Elite Daily and Gigaom
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
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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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.
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Discussion: Gamasutra
 
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Scripps Washington bureau to lay off 4 long-form journalists
Reuters:
Bloomberg to launch Canada TV channel by mid-2015
Agence France-Presse:
Al-Jazeera journalist in Paris court next week over drone flight
Steven Davidoff Solomon / New York Times:
Dish Network saved $3.25B by bidding for spectrum as a “very small business” using loopholes
Discussion: Bloomberg View
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Two examples of gratuitous anonymous quotations in the NYT: the absurd, on port authority restrooms, and the serious, on Jeb Bush
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Ex-Times editor Jill Abramson inks $1M book deal
Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
Arizona courts seek notes used by former Gov Brewer in writing of her book, they may be protected by journalist shield law
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