For Thursday, May 8, 2014, here are some media stories of note:
The process by which the U.S. Federal Communications Commission intends to explore new rules on Internet access has many worried, including such giants of Internet commerce and communications as Amazon, BitTorrent, Facebook and Netflix. In a rare sign of unity for competitors, they've written the FCC to defend the principle of net neutrality and argue the FCC should not introduce rules that permit Internet Service Providers to charge firms to deliver packets of data at faster rates. GigaOm reports on this. Two commissioners of the FCC, meanwhile, are asking that the FCC chairman slow the process. A meeting next week will advance the process intended to introduce rules by the end of the year.
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Tom Kent, the standards editor for The Associated Press, writes for PBS' MediaShift about a project he is heading (disclosure: I am an early signee to contribute) that helps individual journalists and fledgling organizations develop their own codes of ethics and frameworks for decision-making. Kent, working with the Online News Association, has assembled a large group of ethicists and other journalism leaders to help identify best practices. The aim is to support those who are not able to receive it otherwise.
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A new report by the analytics firm Parse.ly suggests the power of large news sites in cultivating loyalty. Sam Kirkland, writing for Poynter, said the report examined 500 million visitors and two billion page views in March and found that people returned on average about 11 per cent within 30 days. It determined that sites with more than one million visitors had a return rate of 16 per cent. Those with fewer than one million visitors had a return rate of only nine per cent.
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The process by which the U.S. Federal Communications Commission intends to explore new rules on Internet access has many worried, including such giants of Internet commerce and communications as Amazon, BitTorrent, Facebook and Netflix. In a rare sign of unity for competitors, they've written the FCC to defend the principle of net neutrality and argue the FCC should not introduce rules that permit Internet Service Providers to charge firms to deliver packets of data at faster rates. GigaOm reports on this. Two commissioners of the FCC, meanwhile, are asking that the FCC chairman slow the process. A meeting next week will advance the process intended to introduce rules by the end of the year.
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Tom Kent, the standards editor for The Associated Press, writes for PBS' MediaShift about a project he is heading (disclosure: I am an early signee to contribute) that helps individual journalists and fledgling organizations develop their own codes of ethics and frameworks for decision-making. Kent, working with the Online News Association, has assembled a large group of ethicists and other journalism leaders to help identify best practices. The aim is to support those who are not able to receive it otherwise.
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A new report by the analytics firm Parse.ly suggests the power of large news sites in cultivating loyalty. Sam Kirkland, writing for Poynter, said the report examined 500 million visitors and two billion page views in March and found that people returned on average about 11 per cent within 30 days. It determined that sites with more than one million visitors had a return rate of 16 per cent. Those with fewer than one million visitors had a return rate of only nine per cent.
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