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Major League Baseball Advanced Media will leave the field and enter the events center, as the league’s interactive media and Internet arm reached an agreement to webcast the next two installments of The Webby Awards, starting with the 15^th annual event June 13 in New York.

The Webby Awards and MLBAM will team up on a live, state-of-the-art, HD presentation of the ceremony, and viewers will be able to access in-progress highlights, interact on multiple screens via customized mobile phone and tablet apps, and follow what the two parties called “a tricked-out video stream.”

Nominees for the 15^th Annual Webby Awards will be announced in April.

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Internet Week New York will see several events and presentations on its main stage selected by the public as part of Make the Stage, an initiative announced Thursday by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.

Ideas for presentations can be submitted in six categories — startups, social media, technology, advertising and creativity, entertainment, and mobile — through April 8, after which voting will run through April 22.

Two winners in each category – one chosen by the public, and the other by a panel of experts – will receive one-hour slots on the main stage during Internet Week New York, which runs June 6-13 and will consist of more than 200 events.

The panel includes Alex Blagg (A Bajillion Hits), Josh Harris (The Wired City), Suroosh Alvi (Vice), Jared Hecht (GroupMe), Soraya Darabi (Foodspotting), Ashley Granata (Fashism), Kris Kiger (R/GA), Sean Mills (Nerve.com), David-Michel Davies (Webby Awards), Charlie O’Donnell (First Round Capital), Anthony DeRosa (Reuters Media), and Scott Belsky (Behance).

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The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences marked the 20^th anniversary of the World Wide Web and the upcoming 15^th edition of its Webby Awards in June by sharing its list of the top five challenges facing the online sector in the next five years.

The five biggest potential hurdles for the online medium, according to IADAS: security, privacy, copyright law, net neutrality, and maintaining an open Web. More details are available here.

IADAS executive director David Michel Davies said:

While the Internet gives us much to celebrate and honor, we feel it is equally important to shine a light on the challenges we’re facing as an industry. By illuminating the issues and encouraging discussion, we hope to inspire policymakers, businesses, and advocates at all levels to work together to ensure that the Internet remains a dynamic and constructive network for us all.

Now that the midterm elections are over, prepare for The Webby Debates, a five-part online video series from The Webby Awards focusing on Internet-industry issues including paywalls, privacy, and the value of social media.

The initial installment of The Webby Debates will debut Nov. 10 from The Hospital Club in London as part of Internet Week Europe, and it will feature Milo Yiannopoulos from The Telegraph moderating a discussion on the pros and cons of paywalls, with The Guardian editor Janine Gibson and Financial Times managing editor Robert Shrimsley.

Debate No. 2, to be filmed at CNN’s studios in New York and featured on CNNMoney.com in late November, will focus on whether social media is overrated. CNN Money’s Laurie Segall will moderate, and it will feature Wine Library TV’s Gary Vaynerchuk and TechCrunch columnist Paul Carr.

The Webby Debates are being sponsored by global marketing and design staffing company Aquent.

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Apps for hand-held and tablet devices will be a part of the 15th Annual Webby Awards, which set an early entry deadline of Oct. 29, with nominations to be announced in April and the winners to be recognized at a June gala.

The new mobile-app category will be judged by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, UrbanDaddy CEO Lance Broumand, and Thrillist co-founder Ben Lerer.

The Webby Awards executive director David-Michel Davies said:

In our 15 years honoring the best of the Internet, we’ve seen few developments have as profound an effect as apps and the mobile Web. Apps have transformed the online experience, changing the way we access content and enhancing every aspect of our daily lives. We’re looking forward to honoring not only these pioneering innovators, but also the Web sites, videos, and advertising that continue to shape the Internet’s future.

Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman and publisher of The New York Times Company, said at his keynote address at the WebbyConnect conference on Wednesday that today’s news overload could actually be a boon to old school media companies, CNET News reports.

“Our 21st-century news cycle, with its trials and tribulations, feels even more immediate because of our access,” he said. “It is reasonable to ask: Do we need all this news and information? Do we want all this news and information? Can we tolerate all this news and information?

“Now that everyone is in their end-of-the-world mode,” he continued, “we should make a conscious effort to reject the increasingly frenzied ‘apocalypse now, tomorrow, and forever’ talk… Quality content matters… trustworthy voices are more important than they have ever been.”

He said that as an industry “we can’t care” if newspapers don’t exist in 10 years, responding to a question from WebbyConnect organizer David-Michel Davies, saying that instead “we must be where people want us for our information. It’s the thought of cannibalizing yourself before somebody else cannibalizes you.”