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3:00 PM ET, February 13, 2014

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Comcast:
Time Warner Cable To Merge With Comcast Corporation To Create A World-Class Technology And Media Company  —  Strategic Combination Will Accelerate Delivery of Comcast's Technologically Advanced Products and Services to Time Warner Cable's Customers  —  Transaction Creates Multiple Pro-Consumer …
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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.
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 …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Local stations ‘have reason to sweat’ over Comcast-Time Warner deal  —  Comcast announced Tuesday it intends to purchase Time Warner Cable for about $45 billion.  —  Such a merger “may have little impact on consumers,” David Gelles writes in The New York Times.
Lance Ulanoff / Mashable:
The National Domination of Comcast and Time Warner in 1 Map  —  Seeing is believing, and it's unlikely you'll believe just how big the $45 Billion Comcast and Time Warner Cable acquisition is until you see how it transforms their U.S. cable business coverage.
Bloomberg:
Comcast Agrees to Buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 Billion
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Time Warner Cable CEO Sells Company a Month Into Term: ‘This Transaction Seems Very Natural to Me’
Discussion: @edmundlee
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast lists all the ways a merger with Time Warner is “pro-consumer”
Discussion: Fast Company and Gigaom
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
NBC executives tout Oympics gains, acknowledge critiques, study for 2016  —  The chairman of NBC Sports, Mark Lazarus, remains adamant that timeshifting and subsequently cutting down the Sochi Olympic opening ceremonies was a good idea.  —  “I continue to believe, having now been in the stadium …
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Chris Gayomali / Fast Company:
The Death Of The Spoiler Alert?  —  ESPN, TWITTER, AND A HOST OF OTHER COMPANIES SEEM INCREASINGLY UNCONCERNED WITH RUINING THE OUTCOME OF THE GAMES FOR VIEWERS—AND THEY SEE IT AS A GOOD THING.  —  Sochi, Russia's largest resort city, sits in the shadow of the Caucasus Mountains, 5,178 miles away from New York.
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
The Guardian signs seven-figure deal to build on ‘shared values’ and provide branded content for Unilever  —  Guardian News and Media has signed a seven-figure deal to provide branded content for household goods giant Unilever.  —  It is the first deal for the new Guardian Labs division …
Hu Shuli / Nieman Reports:
Notes toward an independent, commercially viable news organization  —  Notes toward an independent, commercially viable news organization  —  Technology development has been reshaping the media industry worldwide.  In developed countries like the United States, traditional media companies felt …
Discussion: @davidbarboza2
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Hu Yong / Nieman Reports:   China's market-oriented media face a precarious future
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Libération editor resigns after journalists go on strike  —  Nicolas Demorand was embroiled in row with newsroom staff over shareholders' vision for future of French leftwing paper  —  The editor of France's Libération daily newspaper has resigned, saying after journalists went on strike …
Discussion: Guardian and @jayrosen_nyu
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
FCC Backs Off Study of Newsroom Editorial Practices  —  The Federal Communications Commission is quietly changing course on a controversial study after parts of the methodology were roundly criticized by GOP lawmakers and commissioner Ajit Pai for encroaching into editorial decisions and content at TV stations.
Wall Street Journal:
Apple TV's scaled-back plans would rely on cable providers to acquire programming rights  —  Apple in Talks to Revamp Set-Top Box  —  Scaled-Back Plans Would Rely on Cable Providers to Acquire Programming Rights  —  Apple Inc. appears to be scaling back its lofty TV industry plans.
Discussion: @wsjd, Law Blog and Bloomberg
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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 …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Buzzfeed Getting 100 Million Monthly Views on YouTube, Steinberg  —  PALM SPRINGS, CA - Buzzfeed has quickly established a big video footprint and is getting 100 million monthly views on YouTube, says Jon Steinberg, President and COO, in this video interview with Beet.TV
Thanks:@beet_tv
Associated Press:
Negatives Aside, AOL CEO Posts Positive Results  —  NEW YORK (AP) — You've got gaffes.  —  AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong isn't one to mince words.  Over the weekend, he apologized for insensitive comments and backtracked from an unpopular plan to pay matching 401(k) retirement contributions in a lump sum at the end of the year.
Discussion: Mediawire Daily
Richard Sandomir / New York Times:
Matt Lauer's Olympian Assignment for NBC Begins Early and Ends Late  —  With Bob Costas sidelined, Matt Lauer of “Today” is also on prime time, with little sleep.  “I can't do this schedule for any prolonged period of time,” he says.
Joel Simon / Committee to Protect Journalists:
How the United States' Spying Strengthens China's Hand  —  In its typically fulminating style, the English language edition of China's People's Daily proclaimed in an August 2012 editorial that the U.S. must cede control of the Internet.  “The Internet has become one of the most important resources …
Discussion: @trevortimm, @pressfreedom and Guardian
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Y Combinator-Backed Beacon Offers A New Approach To Crowdfunding Journalism  —  Beacon, part of the current batch of startups incubated by Y Combinator, gives readers another way to support (and get access to) high-quality journalism.  —  Two of the company's co-founders …
Discussion: @adamdrici and @adamcl
 
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Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Grief and grievances at The Plain Dealer
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
How digital weighs up against print for UK magazine circulations
Discussion: Guardian
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC World Service's sponsored content plan will ‘threaten impartiality’
Discussion: @guardian
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Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Battling for profitability, GlobalPost adds “Voices” commentary with $100k Ford grant
Deutsche Welle:
Myanmar: School of journalism in the making
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Nielsen Pauses Effort To Report Broadband-Only Audiences Watching Local TV
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Media Standards Trust updates its “churnalism” tools
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Who Rules The Second Screen, Facebook Or Twitter?
Discussion: @rachaelrad, @kevinweil and Variety