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3:11 AM ET, March 25, 2014

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Ronald Grover / Reuters:
Exclusive: Disney to buy YouTube network Maker Studios for $500 million  —  (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co has agreed to buy Maker Studios for $500 million, becoming a major online video distributor through the purchase of one of YouTube's largest networks, according to a person familiar with the deal.
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Why Disney Is Taking the Huge Risk of Buying Maker Studios  —  Commentary: MCN model still unproven but there are plenty of ancillary benefits to the purchase  —  By Disney standards, acquiring Maker Studios for less than $1 billion is chump change considering the eye-popping purchases the conglomerate has made over the years.
Discussion: AdAge
Todd Spangler / Variety:
After Disney's Maker Buy, More Deals In Store for Multichannel Networks  —  With Disney's blockbuster $500 million-plus deal to buy Maker Studios, look for dealmaking activity in the online multichannel network space to continue apace.  —  MCNs are “now top-of-mind for all the major studios …
Jim Romenesko:
Ben Richardson quits Bloomberg News over handling of investigative piece  —  Ben Richardson has resigned from Bloomberg News after 13 years to protest editors' handling of an investigative piece reported from China - a story that the bosses feared would get them expelled from the country.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Bob Iger: ‘Work Ethic, Intellect and Curiosity’ Helped Ben Sherwood Land Top Disney Job  —  It was no knee-jerk appointment: Bob Iger's decision to name ABC News chief Ben Sherwood as Anne Sweeney's successor atop Disney/ABC TV Group had been in the works for nine months. as far as Iger was concerned.
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Back to the newsroom: A new program lets professors go back to the thick of today's news work  —  Before joining the faculty of Savannah State University last year to teach multimedia journalism, Jessica Sparks had spent her career working for local, community news organizations like Bluffton Today …
Discussion: @carr2n, @louiegilot and @raju
New York Times:
Journalists Group and Internet Lawyers Challenge Turkey's Ban on Twitter  —  ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's leading press organization and two experts in Internet law took legal action Monday to try to overturn a government ban on Twitter, even as the government intensified its efforts to block access to the social media site.
Ben Thompson / stratechery:
Newspapers Are Dead; Long Live Journalism  —  This is Part 3 in a series on the future of news and newspapers.  Previously:  — Part 1: FiveThirtyEight and the End of Average link  — Part 2: The Stages of Newspapers' Decline link  —  Newspapers are held up as an irreplaceable tentpole …
Hunter Walker / Business Insider:
Meet Business Insider's Newest Political Columnist — Anthony Weiner  —  Business Insider is very pleased to announce former New York City mayoral candidate and Congressman Anthony Weiner will be contributing a new monthly column to our politics page.  —  The new column, which will be titled …
Julia La Roche / Business Insider:
Hedge fund drops legal motion to unmask anonymous blogger at Seeking Alpha  —  David Einhorn Knows The Name Of The Anonymous Blogger Who Revealed One Of His Investments  —  Greenlight Capital, the hedge fund run by David Einhorn, has discovered the identity of the anonymous Seeking Alpha blogger …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
In Hollywood News Wars, TheWrap Rebounds  —  LOS ANGELES — Talk about going from fizzle to sizzle.  —  A year ago, TheWrap.com was still trundling along as an also-ran in Hollywood's hotly competitive trade news wars.  The Hollywood Reporter was riding a slick redesign.
Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Bloomberg hires Inside.com CCO Gabriel Snyder and ex-AOL Live president Nathan Richardson  —  Bloomberg Media Makes First Moves Toward New Digital Products  —  Justin Smith has taken the first major steps in his revamp of Bloomberg Media with the hiring of former AOL Live president Nathan Richardson …
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Apple-Comcast TV Pact?  Don't Hold Your Breath  —  A long history of failed dealmaking should cast doubt on this one working out  —  The mere prospect that Apple and Comcast could be joining forces for a new joint TV service, as the Wall Street Journal first reported Sunday, has revived a fresh round of hyperventilation.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Shares Tumble Following Apple-Comcast Report
Discussion: Hollywood Reporter and TVWeek.com
 
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