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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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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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Ben Brody / Bloomberg Business:
How John Oliver Transformed the Net Neutrality Debate Once and for All
How John Oliver Transformed the Net Neutrality Debate Once and for All
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Forbes, AdAge and Elite Daily
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 …
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, New York Times, NY Daily News, Los Angeles Times, @dylanbyers, @tomgara and New York Magazine
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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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@joepompeo, Guardian, JP Updates, AdAge, Media & Entertainment and Agence France-Presse
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.
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VentureBeat, New York Times, Bloomberg Business, Re/code and @akruglov
Seth Kelley / Variety:
Recording Industry Adopts Friday as Global Release Day for New Music — The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announced Friday as the global release day for new music. The shift will take place this summer. — The move to set a global standard is an effort to cut down on global piracy.
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.
Darren Davidson / The Australian:
News Corp's $25m Sky News bid not fair value, says Nine's Gyngell … NINE boss David Gyngell has said News Corp Australia's estimated $25 million bid for the operator of Sky News does not represent “fair value”, and indicated he considered the bid an opening offer.
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Sydney Morning Herald and mUmBRELLA
Alexa Lardieri / American Journalism Review:
Washington Post reporter Kennedy Elliot used data to disprove Groundhog Day predictions — Meet the Reporter Who Used Data to ‘Take Punxsutawney Phil Down’ — Editor's Note: This article is part of Storybase, a series of occasional articles exploring new forms of interactive storytelling.
Abigail Edge / Journalism.co.uk:
Al Jazeera to launch interactive web doc marking anniversary of Syrian conflict — Life on Hold wants to tell the personal stories of refugees displaced by the crisis in Syria though interactive features and engagement on social media — Credit: Image from Al Jazeera press office
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 …
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@sarahfrier, Multichannel News, Mashable and Gigaom
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