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Brian Morrissey / Digiday:
#TheDress meme shows that even as legacy publications chase BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed still wins — The dress is white and gold. Or, why BuzzFeed won — We are all BuzzFeed now. That's the only conclusion to draw from yesterday's twin viral sensations: the runaway llamas in Arizona and the (gold and white) dress.
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Poynter, BuzzFeed, Wired, New York Times, The Huffington Post, Poynter, PRNewser, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, CNNMoney, Washington Post, Mashable, Motherboard, @annehelen, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, Gawker, @om, @catesish, @passantino, Engadget, Slate, @rafat, @ow, @jimgiles, International Business Times, @passantino, @mathewi, @mccollumashley, @catesish, VICE, Mediaite, USA Today, The Verge, Marketing Land, UPROXX, Guido Fawkes, Digital Spy and CNBC
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Financial Times ditches metered paywall, offers unlimited 30-day trial for $1, €1 or £1 before subscription model applies — FT to change the way it charges for digital news — (Reuters) - The Financial Times is changing the way it charges readers for digital access …
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Nieman Lab, Guardian, FishbowlNY, Capital New York, @jeffjohnroberts, @jayrosen_nyu, Bloomberg Business and @thestalwart
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Kristina Eriksson / Financial Times:
Financial Times total circulation up 10% YoY to 720K, digital up 21% to 504K, representing 70% of subscribers — Financial Times - 2014 results — 27 February 2015: The Financial Times saw a sharp increase in profits in 2014, driven by growth in subscription and digital revenues and a record high circulation.
Discussion:
Talking Biz News, @henrymance and @lionelbarber
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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Broadcasting & Cable, Forbes, NetNewsCheck Latest, Washington Post, MediaNama, @karlbode, @normative, @kwerb, @superwuster, Variety, Los Angeles Times, Sonic.net Blog, @spencerante, @codysimms, Engadget, Of Interest, Gigaom, @halsinger, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, @jayrosen_nyu and @yimmyayo
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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
FCC's enforcement of net neutrality rules confirms the Internet is mainstream political issue
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Washington Post, Mediaite, TIME, Courthouse News Service, Raw Story and Mashable
Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
How John Oliver Transformed the Net Neutrality Debate Once and for All
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Media Channel, Forbes and Elite Daily
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC enforces net neutrality, voting to regulate broadband providers as common carriers under Title II and ban paid fast lanes
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New York Times, Verizon Public Policy, corporate.comcast.com, FCC.gov, reddit, AT&T Public Policy Blog, CNNMoney, Mashable, SocialTimes, Variety, NPR, Fox News, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Guardian, The Huffington Post, Engadget, @samgustin, @samgustin, AdExchanger, Gigaom, Guardian, @jackmirkinson, The Verge, MacRumors, WebProNews, Media Channel, Los Angeles Times, TheBlaze.com, TIME, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Guardian, Charleston City Paper, FishbowlDC, @miangraham, @foundhistory, VentureBeat, @nash076, @natexanderson, Digiday and Associated Press
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 …
Matt Brian / Engadget:
Google won't ban adult content on Blogger after all — Well that was fast. Google only declared that it would begin cracking down on adult content posted to Blogger a few days ago, but it's already decided it was a bit hasty in its decision. After coming under fire over the introduction …
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VentureBeat, Business Insider, Guardian, The Verge, The Next Web, @jilliancyork and Beyond Search
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck:
Early numbers for Philly's Billy Penn: $225k of Jim Brady's money, close to 100K page views for February, 53.3% from millennials — Billy Penn Is Brady's Biggest Digital Bet — Jim Brady, former Digital First Media editor in chief, has already invested a quarter of a million dollars …
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NetNewsCheck Latest, @coreyhutchins, @jayrosen_nyu, @dangillmor, @davisshaver and @phillydesign
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
A few names surface in speculation about who would buy Daily News: Murdoch's News Corp, Dolan family, Newhouse family — Who wants the Daily News? — Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman's Thursday announcement that the tabloid is officially on the market, after 22 years of ownership …
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Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed:
New York Daily News Owner Is Considering Selling The Paper
Discussion:
Capital New York, New York Times, Poynter, NY Daily News, @dylanbyers, Los Angeles Times, @katzish, @tomgara and New York Magazine
Reuters:
Atheist U.S. blogger killed in machete attack in Bangladesh — (Reuters) - Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support free thinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
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Agence France-Presse, Dhaka Tribune, @paulxharris, The Independent, International Business Times, International Business Times, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Agence France-Presse, Fox News, Agence France-Presse, NY Daily News, Bangladesh - Prothom Alo, DW.DE, bdnews24.com, Al Jazeera English, bdnews24.com, The Week, Power Line, NBC News and newsx.com
Kerri Hoffman / PRX:
One year in Radiotopia has raised $620K through 22K Kickstarter backers, added four shows to its lineup in 2015 — Radiotopia by the Numbers — A year ago this month, PRX launched Radiotopia. It has been a year full of incredible growth and lessons learned for all of our shows as well as for the network itself.
Discussion:
@kerriprx and @radiotopiafm
Kevin Gallagher / Freedom of the Press Foundation:
Of 65 major news organizations, 25% don't use email encryption, 25% needed configuration improvement — Why aren't more news organizations protecting their e-mail with STARTTLS encryption? — The Guardian published a shocking story a few weeks ago showing that in 2008 Britain's spy agency GCHQ collected …
Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times:
Google Ventures and Michael Dell investing $60M in Kobalt, which handles music publishing rights — Music royalty hunter Kobalt wins Google funding — Since the music industry began in the early 20th century, musicians and songwriters have complained about paltry royalty payments for their creations.
Discussion:
@akruglov, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Business, Re/code and New York Times
Guido Fawkes:
UK police deny FOI request regarding RIPA by accusing organisations of “working collectively” — Met's Extraordinary RIPA FoI Refusal — A few weeks back, three members of the Guido team sent off Freedom of Information requests to the Met asking:
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Press Gazette, @tomjharper and @wturvill
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