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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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Verizon Public Policy, Gigaom, Forbes, Sonic.net Blog, Bloomberg Business, @karlbode, Motherboard, Wall Street Journal, @kwerb, @normative 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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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
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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, The Next Web, RadioTimes, 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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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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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
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.
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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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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