Mediagazer: Fortune announces five hires, including senior writer Leena Rao, moving from Google Ventures and formerly managing editor of TechCrunch (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)

7:00 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.

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.

Discussion: Gigaom, Forbes, Sonic.net Blog, Engadget, @jayrosen_nyu, Bloomberg Business, @halsinger, @karlbode, @kwerb, @normative, Motherboard, @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.

Discussion: Gigaom, Forbes and Elite Daily

Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
FCC's enforcement of net neutrality rules confirms the Internet is mainstream political issue

Discussion: TIME, Washington Post, Raw Story, Mashable and Courthouse News Service

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 …

Discussion: Politico, CNNMoney, @davidsirota, @ericboehlert, @jayrosen_nyu, PoliticusUSA, Talking Points Memo, TVNewser, JFKfacts, The Huffington Post, Mother Jones, Gawker, Syracuse Post-Standard, Sydney Morning Herald and Washington Post

Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly now scrutinized for story of murdered nuns

Discussion: 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

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: Guardian, broadcastnow.co.uk, RadioTimes, The Conversation, The Next Web, RadioTimes, Hollywood Reporter, Broadband TV News and UK Parliament

Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
BBC's licence fee should be decriminalised then scrapped, MPs say

Discussion: Daily Mail, birminghampost, BBC, Guardian and The Independent

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.

Discussion: Medium and @leenarao

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.

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: @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.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, @niemanlab, Media Wire Daily, AdExchanger and Capital New York, Thanks:@amandabcowie

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 …

Discussion: Multichannel News, 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 …

Discussion: 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.

Discussion: Gamasutra

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Commissioning Editor - Practical Law — Reuters

Energy Markets Reporter, London — WSJ

Oil Reporter, Singapore — Bloomberg

Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — AP

Business Reporter, SC — Post & Courier

State Government Reporter, WA — Seattle Times

Climate Crisis Columnist — Prospect UK

Multimedia Journalist, CA — Paramount

Community Engagement Mgr., DC — Freedom Forum

Staff Writer - Business, NY — WIRED

Editor, MA — Nieman Reports

Team Editor - Breaking News, ON — Toronto Star

Senior Reporter & Event Host, NY/CA — Newcomer

Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — Star Tribune

Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — The Verge

News Reporter, MA — Berkshire Eagle

Multimedia Journalist, PA — Observer-Reporter

Managing Editor, WA — Everett Herald

Private Credit Reporter, NY — Debtwire

Legislative Reporter, CA — Sacramento Bee

Reporter, PA — Tribune-Review

Visual Editor, Remote — Rest of World

Staff Writer, MI — Watershed Voice

California Playbook Writer, CA — Politico

Senior Media Editor — Digiday

National Investigative Reporter, NY — HuffPost

Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — Las Vegas Sun

Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — Island Packet

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John Herrman / The Awl:
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
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Jonathan Peters / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Q&A with Dick Costolo on Twitter's lack of broad appeal and plans to handle harassment

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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Viacom's Nickelodeon will launch Noggin, a subscription video service aimed at pre-schoolers, on March 5 for $5.99/month

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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
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David Pierce / The Verge:
Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live

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