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10:45 PM ET, January 13, 2014

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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Charter Makes $61.3 Billion Offer to Acquire Time Warner Cable — Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR) offered to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) for about $132.50 a share, valuing the second-largest U.S. cable provider at more than $61 billion, including debt.

Discussion: Radio & Television …, Gigaom, Forbes, TechCrunch, The Wrap, @davecbenoit, Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Deadline.com, BGR, @jboorstin, @dgelles, @jboorstin, The Verge, Capital New York and Variety

Marguerite Reardon / CNET:
Charter to Time Warner Cable: Take our $61B bid seriously

Discussion: Thomson IR

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Readers Lash Out About Bill Keller's Column on a Woman With Cancer — Bill Keller's column in The Times on Monday about Lisa Bonchek Adams has generated a great deal of negative response. Xeni Jardin, the well-known writer who blogs on Boing Boing, sometimes about her own experience with cancer, was outraged, calling it bullying.

Discussion: Gigaom, New York Times, @jswatz, Capital New York, The Daily Caller, The Huffington Post, Capital New York, @studentactivism, Mashable, @xeni, @jeffjarvis, @richarddeitsch, @praeburn, @7im, @sarahkendzior, iMediaEthics, New York Magazine and Pressing Issues

Zeynep Tufekci / Medium:

Social media is a conversation, not a press release. — How @nytkeller and @emmagkeller flunk understanding @adamslisa. — Last week was a curious one. First, Guardian writer Emma G. Keller wrote a cancer-shaming article [archived here] on metastastic breast cancer sufferer Lisa Adams' social media presence.

Discussion: Wired, The Atlantic Online, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, @ivohmedia, @laurenyoung, @zeynep, @matthewteller, @mattyglesias, @ejwillingham, @notjessewalker, Mediaite, @dandrezner, @elaineschattner and Mashable

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:

Bill Keller Criticized For Op-Ed About Cancer Patient Lisa Bonchek Adams — UPDATE: The Guardian has taken down Emma Keller's piece about Adams, writing, “This post has been deleted with the agreement of the subject because it is inconsistent with the Guardian editorial code.”

Discussion: Gawker, Salon, Poynter, The Huffington Post, The Raw Story, New York Times, The Nation, Columbia Journalism Review, The Wire, @johnmcquaid, Pressing Issues, The Wrap and Boing Boing

Mike Allen / Politico:

Katie Couric makes Yahoo debut — Katie Couric made her debut Monday as Yahoo's global anchor, sitting down with Robert Gates the day before publication of his memoir, “Duty,” which will be published Tuesday. — Couric — who once was an NBC News Pentagon correspondent …

Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Is Yahoo serious about media?

Discussion: @emilybell, @karaswisher, @kantrowitz, @mathewi, @timobrien and GeekWire

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Bloomberg returns to headquarters for his day job — With his 12 years as mayor of New York behind him, Michael Bloomberg received a warm welcome-home this morning from the chief executive of Bloomberg L.P., the financial information and media company founded by the 71-year-old plutocrat in 1981.

Discussion: Gawker, DealBook, FishbowlNY, @joepompeo, @mlcalderone, Talking Biz News, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

Nate Raymond / Reuters:

Apple loses bid to block antitrust monitorship — (Reuters) - Apple Inc lost a bid on Monday to block an antitrust monitor appointed after a judge's finding that the company conspired to fix e-book prices. — At a hearing, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan denied Apple's request …

Discussion: AppleInsider, Electronista, Gigaom, GeekWire, BGR, 9to5Mac, The Verge and MacRumors

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Gawker editor says he was told Roger Ailes was having him tailed — Here's something you won't read in Gabriel Sherman's hotly anticipated book about Roger Ailes: Gawker editor John Cook told Capital he was reliably informed that Ailes, the powerful chairman of the Fox News Channel, had him tailed in 2012.

Discussion: Capital New York, Mediaite, TVNewser, Talking Points Memo, The Corsair, The Verge, Prof Chris Daly's Blog, @peterfhart, @agolis and @jayrosen_nyu

Luke Harding / Guardian:

Russia expels US journalist David Satter without explanation — Moscow authorities ban writer from the country in first expulsion of US journalist since the cold war — Russia has expelled a US journalist living in Moscow for the first time since the cold war, in a move that is likely …

Discussion: @ase, BuzzFeed, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, @maxseddon, @ptbrennan11 and @motherjones

Dylan Byers / Politico:

HBO to end ‘The Newsroom’ — Aaron Sorkin's “The Newsroom,” widely seen by Twitter's chattering classes and yours truly as the worst show to ever grace the godsend that is HBO, will come to an end after its third and final season airs this fall. — ‘The Newsroom’ will begin production …

Discussion: Variety, The Wrap and @sarah_boxer

Victor Luckerson / TIME:

20M households could lose The Weather Channel tonight due to carriage dispute with DirecTV — Millions of Households May Lose The Weather Channel Tonight — As many as 20 million television households may lose access to The Weather Channel at midnight due to a dispute over carriage fees between …

Discussion: TVNewser, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, National and Local …, @wattsupwiththat, @jimdonnelly1, Los Angeles Times, Consumerist, Capital Weather Gang and Capital New York

Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The Boston Globe nicks a page from the OC Register playbook and pushes subscribing as a civic good — If you're looking for against-the-grain experiments at newspapers, Aaron Kushner's Orange County Register is probably the best place to find them these days.

Discussion: @jcstearns

Brian Anthony Hernandez / Mashable:

HBO courting online audience by putting “Girls” episodes on YouTube just 12 hours after airing — HBO Is Putting First Episodes of ‘Girls’ Season 3 on YouTube — HBO will upload the first two episodes of Girls season three onto the network's YouTube channel on Jan. 13 at 10 a.m. ET …

Discussion: Business Insider, VatorNews, Digital Spy, The Verge and Daily Dot

Matt Mullenweg:

In role swap, Matt Mullenweg becomes Automattic's CEO, Toni Schneider to focus on new products — Toni Schneider & Automattic CEO — Eight years and one day ago I blogged about Toni Schneider joining Automattic as CEO, as I said then: I first met Toni shortly after I moved to San Francisco …

Discussion: Om Malik, Toni.org, TechCrunch, @davidhornik, ZDNet, VentureBeat, @dries, @dangillmor, @om, @mg, Gigaom, @jeffjarvis, @brooke, WebProNews and Re/code

Dell Cameron / Daily Dot:

EFF, other groups launch ‘Copyright Week’ campaign today to support reform of laws — Everything you need to know about Copyright Week — was a devastating moment in history. One after his death, the memory of the 26-year-old activist is galvanizing the efforts of organizers …

Discussion: Techdirt, Mashable and Policy Blog

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

Newspaper PDF replica service bets on future of print-style digital reading — In October 2012, just 23 percent of Americans told Pew they read even one newspaper the previous day. So who in the world could possibly want or need unlimited access to 2,500 of them?

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman Extends Contract — John Hogan, the head of the company's radio division, is retiring. — Clear Channel Media Holdings announced on Monday that chairman and chief executive Bob Pittman has extended his contract an additional five years.

Jennifer Faull / The Drum:
John Hogan, chairman and CEO of Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, departs

Discussion: AllAccess.com, Billboard and Business Wire

Jordan Chariton / TVNewser:

52 journalists including Ben Smith sign letter calling for release of Al Jazeera reporters — Journalists Show Sign of Support for Imprisoned Al Jazeera Reporters — Imprisoned for over two weeks in Egypt, Al Jazeera reporters held captive received support from 52 reporters and editors who signed a letter calling for their release.

Discussion: The National Press Club

Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:

Philadelphia Newspaper Staff Plan Joint Bid Against Feuding Owners — PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After another tumultuous year on the job, frustrated workers at Philadelphia's two largest newspapers vowed Monday to bid against feuding owners if the company again goes on the auction block.