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Mediatwits #111: Comcast/Netflix Deal: Killing Net Neutrality or Helping...
On Feb. 23, Netflix and Comcast announced a deal that would ensure Netflix customers can reliably stream videos for Comcast customers. The agreement will require Netflix to pay for access to Comcast’s...
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Mediatwits #112: ‘Unplugging’ Rises in Popularity, But Is it Really Necessary?
Click image for the full series.Graphic by hyoin min and used here with Creative Commons license. In a single day, the average American spends eleven hours with digital media. With so many ways to stay...
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Mediatwits #113: Did Newsweek Bungle Bitcoin Founder Unmasking? Plus: A...
Last week, Newsweek resurrected its print issue with a splash, featuring a story that claimed to reveal the founder of Bitcoin as a reclusive Californian named Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto. But readers were...
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Mediatwits #114: Will Robots Take Over Simple Tasks for Journalists?
This week, when a 4.4-magnitude earthquake hit L.A., the L.A. Times’ Ken Schwencke was the first to break the story. But, the actual author of the post wasn’t Schwencke — it was Quakebot, an algorithm...
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Mediatwits #115: State of the News Media: Rise of Digital News Ventures
On Wednesday, Pew released its eleventh annual State of the News Media report, featuring a wealth of data and analysis for journalists to chew over. The report underscored the optimism present in media...
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Mediatwits #116: How Amazon’s Fire TV Box Shakes Up Streaming Media
On Wednesday, Amazon released its newest device, the $99 Fire TV, that aims to make a better set-top box for streaming video on TVs. It’s not drone delivery, but it does make the leap from offering...
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Mediatwits #117: Personal Brand Journalism on the Rise as Vox Launches
Vox.com launched this week, the much talked-about explanatory news site headed up by former Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein. There’s been a lot of anticipation around Vox.com’s launch, and to many...
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Mediatwits #118: Special Report on Drones as Google Buys Titan Aerospace
Recently drones have become ubiquitous in the media, and not just for executing civilians abroad. Newsrooms are using drones to go places their reporters can’t reach, and drone-deploying filmmakers are...
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Mediatwits #119: Broadcasters vs. Aereo in Supreme Court; Netflix vs. AT&T
This week, the Supreme Court began hearings to determine if Aereo’s broadcast-TV-time-shifting model is legal. Aereo is an antenna middle man for consumers, who can rent an unobstructed TV antenna that...
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Mediatwits #120: Mideast Media Study Shows Demand for Social Media, Censored...
Even though Western music and movies are a major export to the Middle East, many people there support censoring these programs if they are deemed offensive. This is one of several findings in a new...
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