Mediagazer: Saudi blogger Raif Badawi could be facing the death penalty (Channel 4 News)

3:25 AM ET, March 2, 2015

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Dao Nguyen / BuzzFeed:

What It's Like To Work On BuzzFeed's Tech Team During Record Traffic — It's all about the company culture, folks. Here's how it all went down (or didn't) last night. — BuzzFeed Publisher — 8:23 p.m.: Jay's sysops pager goes off. His wife says, “Uh oh, is it the dress?” He replies, “What dress?”

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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

One BuzzFeed post on #thedress has grabbed 28M views, 79% from mobile, 94% from social sources — The Dress — I sent this email to the BuzzFeed editorial staff this afternoon. — BuzzFeed sprouted from the depths of web culture, and began its life as a place to find delightful things on the internet.

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Mark Scott / New York Times:

The Netherlands' two-year-old net neutrality rules provide a good case study for the US — Dutch Offer Preview of Net Neutrality — Outside an Apple store in the Netherlands. Two years ago the country mandated that Internet providers treat all traffic equally. Credit: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg News, via Getty Images

Discussion: @owillis, Gawker and New York Magazine

Harry A. Jessell / TVNewsCheck.com:

Broadcasters Benefit From Net Neutrality — Without even trying, broadcasters emerged winners from the FCC's adoption yesterday of tough new rules overseeing Internet access. Why? Because broadcasters are very much in the digital business and that business now has some protection …

Los Angeles Times:
While Netflix, writers guild, and indie music producers cheer FCC vote on net neutrality, other major media firms like 21st Century Fox and Viacom remain silent

Discussion: @megjameslat and Techdirt

Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

Rebekah Brooks likely to return to News Corp in UK-based role focusing on digital endeavors — News Corp. Set to Rehire Rebekah Brooks, Acquitted Executive — Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Rupert Murdoch's media holdings in Britain, acquitted last year on charges related …

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Jacob Bernstein / New York Times:

John Fairchild, Editor of Women's Wear Daily, Dies at 87 — John Fairchild, the witty and irascible publisher and editor who transformed his family's fusty trade publication, Women's Wear Daily, into the lively bible of the fashion industry, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

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Channel 4 News:

Saudi blogger Raif Badawi could be facing the death penalty — Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes over accusations he insulted Islam, could now be facing the death penalty, Channel 4 News learns. — Raif Badawi, 31, was expected to serve a 10-year jail sentence …

Discussion: Guardian and The Independent

Nick Gallagher / American Journalism Review:

The New York Times on Social Media: Not About the ‘Hyperbole’ — Michael Roston has a clear vision of what makes a good social media editor — and it's not about driving empty clicks back to a website. — It's really about knowing how to publish true things on the Internet.

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

Can Former Planet Money Host Build the ‘HBO of Podcasts’? — “Are you meeting someone with money? Alex Blumberg's wife asks him within the first 30 seconds of the first episode of StartUp, his podcast about launching a podcast network. Maybe Mr. Blumberg should rethink his footwear, she suggests. ”

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Gawker Media's Nick Denton Goes It Alone: The Code/Media Interview (Video) — Gawker Media's Nick Denton is a Web publishing pioneer, but the Web publishing business isn't very sentimental. It doesn't care that you figured out how to turn blogging into a business before most people had heard of a blog.

Aye Aye Win / Associated Press:

Police in Myanmar arrest photojournalist for posting a satirical message on Facebook — Myanmar journalist arrested for satirical post — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Police in Myanmar on Saturday arrested a photojournalist who posted a satirical message on Facebook that mocked a historic battle and the country's leader.

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Roland de Courson / Agence France-Presse:

Authenticating photographs, acceptable image manipulations, and the gray areas of touchups — Photography: telling art from fraud — Follow @AFPblogs Follow @rdecourson — This year's World Press Photo awards saw an unprecedented number of entrants thrown out for tampering with their images …

Discussion: Guardian