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3:45 AM ET, February 13, 2014

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David Gelles / DealBook:
Comcast Set to Acquire Time Warner Cable for $45 Billion  —  Comcast is expected to announce on Thursday an agreement to acquire Time Warner Cable for more than $45 billion in stock, a deal that would combine the biggest and second-biggest cable television operators in the country.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Here's Why the Biggest Cable Company in the Country Thinks It Can Get Bigger  —  So Comcast, in a sort-of surprise, is going to end up buying all of Time Warner Cable for itself.  —  If you are a regular person, and you hear that the biggest cable company in the country is going to buy …
Om Malik / Gigaom:
Comcast and Time Warner Cable: Forget TV, it is all about broadband  —  If it is allowed to gobble up its number two rival, Time Warner Cable, Philadelphia-based Comcast will become the largest broadband provider in the United States, and perhaps the largest outside China.
Brian R. Fitzgerald / Digits:
What the FCC Might Think on the Comcast-TWC Deal  —  A deal between the Nos. 1 and 2 in any industry causes an immediate and quite reasonable knee-jerk response: How could federal regulators ever allow that to happen?  —  Comcast plans to buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion in stock …
Bloomberg:
Apple Said to Plan New Set-Top Box Amid Time Warner Cable Talks  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) is planning to introduce a new Apple TV set-top box as early as April and is negotiating with Time Warner Cable Inc. and other potential partners to add video content, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Here's What the New Apple TV Could Look Like (Hint: Check Your iPad)  —  Apple is reportedly prepping a new version of Apple TV, which would work like a cable set-top box.  Apple is working with Time Warner Cable to launch the device this year, Bloomberg says.
Discussion: @fmanjoo and MacRumors
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Media Standards Trust updates its “churnalism” tools  —  The U.K.'s Media Standards Trust has released an updated version of Churnalism, its tool to identify news stories that are thin rewrites (or outright cut-and-paste copies) of press releases.  In addition to a revamped website …
Discussion: Media Standards Trust
Hu Yong / Nieman Reports:
China's market-oriented media face a precarious future  —  Two-thousand-and-three was a milestone year for investigative journalism in China.  Some media organizations had been transformed from Communist Party propaganda tools into market-oriented news outlets.
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David Sirota / PandoDaily:
PBS station WNET financed “Pension Peril” series with $3.5M donation from Arnold Foundation  —  The Wolf of Sesame Street: Revealing the secret corruption inside PBS's news division  —  On December 18th, the Public Broadcasting Service's flagship station WNET issued …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Who Rules The Second Screen, Facebook Or Twitter?  —  Twitter's user growth in the last couple quarters may have been less than stellar, but one place the social messenging service hasn't disappointed is its hold on television viewers.  Twitter executives see the so-called second screen experience …
Discussion: @rachaelrad and @kevinweil
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Facebook Lays Claim to Twitter's Live TV Territory
Discussion: @jimconnolly
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's Contextual Homescreen App Aviate Adds A Smart “Listening Space” For Music Lovers  —  Aviate, the contextual Android homescreen application Yahoo bought for $80 million in January, has rolled out an update today which introduces a smart “Listening Space” that allows users to more easily find …
Discussion: Aviate Blog, Gigaom and The Next Web
Deutsche Welle:
Myanmar: School of journalism in the making  —  Germany's Federal President Joachim Gauck has praised DW Akademie's efforts to set up a much-needed journalism school in Myanmar.  He referred to the project in a speech given this week at Yangon University.  —  The first national school …
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Battling for profitability, GlobalPost adds “Voices” commentary with $100k Ford grant  —  Rieder: Digital journalism's financial challenge  —  Foreign news site GlobalPost launches a new feature with foundation support.  —  Being a digital journalism entrepreneur is not for the fainthearted.
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen Pauses Effort To Report Broadband-Only Audiences Watching Local TV  —  Nielsen is putting its efforts to divulge broadband-only households watching programming from local TV stations on hiatus, after various requests from the TV industry.  —  Because of technical issues …
Max Fisher / WorldViews:
Is U.S. press freedom really ‘plummeting’?  Not if you look at the data.  —  This year's global press freedom ranking, released annually by the international NGO Reporters Without Borders, appears to show something alarming: The U.S. has dropped in the rankings from the world's 32nd most free for media to only 46th.
Discussion: @jcstearns and The Huffington Post
David Lieberman / Deadline.com:
CBS Beats Q4 Earnings Estimates And Says It Will Add $1.5B To Share Buys This Quarter  —  CBS shares are up in post market trading after it reported the ambitious stock repurchase plan — bringing Q1 buying to $2B — and Q4 results that exceeded forecasts just about everywhere except in local broadcasting and its billboard operation.
Rebecca Greenfield / Fast Company:
Why The New York Times Hired A Biology Researcher As Its Chief Data Scientist  —  It doesn't come as a huge surprise that the New York Times has hired a chief data scientist.  Even 162-year-old media companies know that technology will play a huge role in the future of journalism.
Discussion: @btrpkc, @butterworthy and @chanders
Sam Kirkland / Poynter:
Does it matter that mobile-native Quartz has a mobile-minority audience?  —  As much as mobile is poised to keep growing in 2014, old desktop habits die hard — especially during business hours.  That leaves Quartz, Atlantic Media's 18-month-old business site, with a fascinating hand after going all-in on mobile.
Discussion: @poynter
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Foreign regimes use spyware against journalists, even in U.S.  —  Mesay Mekonnen was at his desk, at a news service based in Northern Virginia, when gibberish suddenly exploded across his computer screen one day in December.  A sophisticated cyberattack was underway.
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The Facebook Effect on the News  —  Social networks are the new front page and homepage for news.  But on Facebook, it's not the “news” that readers come to see or click to leave.  —  Around this time last year, I considered writing a story claiming that Facebook and Twitter were the new “homepages” for news on the Internet.
Ryan Faughnder / Los Angeles Times:
Second-screen apps?  Viewers say ho-hum, but execs see potential  —  Andrew Lincoln appears in a scene from “The Walking Dead.”  The show has been using second-screen technology to engage viewers.  (Gene Page / AMC)  —  Networks, advertisers and tech start-ups have been trying …
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Indy Star's Bizarre Tale of Real-Life Exorcism Wins Huge Mobile Traffic, but Cashing In Is Harder  —  Haunted House Story a ‘Serendipitous’ Big Draw for Gannett Paper  —  Gannett's Indianapolis Star is happily learning what movie studios have long known: Ghost stories are a huge draw.
Discussion: @gangrey and @romenesko
Geoffrey King / Committee to Protect Journalists:
The NSA Puts Journalists Under a Cloud of Suspicion  —  In fall 2013, the U.S. National Security Agency quietly began booting up its Utah Data Center, a sprawling 1.5 million-square-foot facility designed to store and analyze the vast amounts of electronic data the spy agency gathers from around the globe.
Discussion: Guardian and @cpjinternet
Al Jazeera English:
CPJ slams charges against Al Jazeera staff  —  Watchdog says detained journalists face a political trial and that press freedom in the country is in sharp decline.  —  The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned Egypt's charges against Al Jazeera staff, and said that press freedom in the country is in sharp decline.
Discussion: BBC
 
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