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Edward Wyatt / DealBook:
Industry Shifts May Aid Comcast in Takeover Bid — On the face of it, the merger of the country's two largest cable companies would seem like a nonstarter, given its steep regulatory hurdles and skepticism from consumer watchdogs. — But Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable comes …
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Susan Crawford / Bloomberg:
Comcast's Time Warner Deal Is Bad for America — David Cohen, Comcast Corp.'s executive vice president and the mastermind behind its deal to buy Time Warner Cable Inc., sounded pugnacious and confident on a recent conference call with investors. Regulatory and antitrust approval of the deal …
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Lee Fang / Republic Report:
Revolving Door: Top Obama Admin Antitrust Officials Tied To Comcast — The news that cable and news giant Comcast has struck a deal to purchase Time Warner, another large cable business, has raised concerns over market concentration. Observers note that the combined company …
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Politico, The Switch, @lhfang, AdExchanger and Fortune
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Likely to Pursue Other Acquisitions — Cable Operator Unlikely to Counterbid for Time Warner Cable After Comcast's Offer — With cable's top two operators hooking up, rival Charter Communications Inc. is likely to look at other suitors, said people familiar with the company's thinking.
Heidi Moore / Guardian:
The Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger is not a marriage made to last — Two troubled giants, loathed by the public and facing plummeting profits, are heralding a brighter future. Don't believe the hype — In mergers, as in marriage, the couple may be running toward each other - or away from something else.
Comcast:
Time Warner Cable To Merge With Comcast Corporation To Create A World-Class Technology And Media Company
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Local stations ‘have reason to sweat’ over Comcast-Time Warner deal
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BusinessJournalism.org …, USA Today, Gigaom, Business Insider, NewsBusters blogs and The Newspaper Guild
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Comcast claims competition from Google Fiber, Netflix & Hulu are reasons to approve merger
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@gigaom, UPROXX, The Wrap, Vanity Fair, The Verge, Forbes, @notsalome and @agolis
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast lists all the ways a merger with Time Warner is “pro-consumer”
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The Technology Chronicles and Forbes
Michael J. Copps / Columbia Journalism Review:
Journalists need to generate a national discussion on the future of the internet — Journalists need to generate a national discussion on the future of the internet — Dear Journalists: — You may wonder why a long-time regulator like me is writing to you.
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@edwardericsonjr, @mparekh, @cjr and Boing Boing
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Katy Bachman / Adweek:
FCC Backs Off Study of Newsroom Editorial Practices
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NationalJournal.com and Wall Street Journal
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Twitter Photos Blocked In Venezuela, Users Say — A social media crackdown as protests threaten the government. — WASHINGTON — Twitter photos and videos appear to be blocked in Venezuela as the government there attempts to reassert control amid widespread public protests.
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The Next Web, @romustgo, Committee to Protect … and BBC
Anupreeta Das / MoneyBeat:
Buffett's exit from Graham Holdings more closely resembles a friendly restructuring — Buffett to Graham: Parting Like Friends, With Benefits? … Warren Buffett's more-than-40-year business relationship with the Graham family could be coming to an end. But it's not clear what assets …
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Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal:
Pandora to let advertisers target listeners based on its sense of their political leanings — Internet Radio Service Builds Profiles of Its Audience — Pandora Hopes to Build Ad Revenue by Pinpointing Likely Voting Preferences — Next time you listen to a Bob Marley channel on Pandora Media Inc. …
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@cschweitz, @a_grossman, @wsjpersonaltech, @zeynep and @peteskomoroch
India & World:
Columbia University students launch website on India's elections — New York: A group of Indian students at Columbia University here has launched a website focused exclusively on India's upcoming general elections, promising to provide a comprehensive and “no high-brow and jargon-led” reportage of the event.
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FishbowlNY
Josh Ong / The Next Web:
Editorially to shut down its collaborative writing service on May 30 — editorially 220x56 Editorially to shut down its collaborative writing service on May 30Editorially has announced plans to close its Web-based collaborative document product after failing to gain enough traction for it.
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Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Ready to break the internet? Netflix's “House of Cards” premiere is a big test of how video gets to you — “My wife and I like to lay in bed and watch Netflix,” Tom Wheeler, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, said the other day. But when their internet connection slows down …
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Techdirt, Deadline.com, @jmcduling, @pkafka, Re/code and Engadget
Lee Siegel / New Yorker:
Is the News Replacing Literature? — In the postwar period, a generation of critics, inspired by Lionel Trilling, encapsulated the difference between high art and popular art in a single word: “complexity.” “Literature,” Trilling wrote, “is the human activity that takes the fullest …
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@raju, @ceodonovan, @culturedesk and Kirk LaPointe's …
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
How digital weighs up against print for UK magazine circulations — New data from the Audit Bureau of Circulation reports combined digital and print sales for the first time with print still dominating, for now — The Audit Bureau for Circulation (ABC) has released the first ever combined print …
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WWD Media Headlines, mUmBRELLA and Guardian
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
New York Times Magazine editor search nears end — The hunt for the next editor of The New York Times Magazine is entering the home stretch, Capital has learned. — Sources familiar with the process said the search has been narrowed down to a handful of internal and external candidates …
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bookforum.com, Forbes and Latest News & Headlines
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Reporters condemn Senate for silent vote — The Capitol Hill press corps is strongly condemning how the Senate handled a critical roll call vote on raising the debt ceiling Wednesday. — During a highly dramatic vote, the Senate clerk remained silent as senators submitted their votes …
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@feliciasonmez, Roll Call and @apandrewtaylor
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