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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Comcast Stock Drop Complicates TWC Deal — Takeover Value Falls to $144 a Share, Giving Charter a Possible Opening — Comcast Corp.'s deal to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. has run into an unexpected source of turbulence: a weak stock price. — In the nearly seven weeks since the deal was announced …
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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Comcast: Business services is sweet spot in Time Warner Cable deal
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
After Fan Complaints, NBCU to Keep Television Without Pity and DailyCandy Archives Public — NBCUniversal will be making the archived content of two high-profile sites that it is closing down — Television Without Pity and DailyCandy — available to the public, the media giant confirmed.
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Jennifer Bjorhus / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor makes cash offer to buy Minneapolis Star Tribune — Wolves owner Glen Taylor makes cash offer to buy Star Tribune — The billionaire Minnesota businessman would be the sole owner and operate it as a stand-alone company.
Brett Scott / Contributoria:
Crowdfunding critical thought: How alternative finance builds alternative journalism — Greg Palast's approach to investigative journalism can be summed up in one phrase: Stand up for the underdogs, and take on the fatcats. His hard-hitting reports on corporations like ExxonMobil …
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Alexander Howard / Tow Center for Digital Journalism:
NPR's news app developer Jeremy Bowers talks skills, processes, and tools for data journalism — Profile of the Data Journalist: Jeremy Bowers — As in 2012, when I published a series of profiles of data journalists at Radar, I've conducted a series of email interviews after the annual conference …
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Tom Bawden / The Independent:
Government accuses BBC of creating ‘false balance’ on climate change with unqualified sceptics — The BBC has been accused of misleading the public about climate change, creating a “false balance” by allowing unqualified climate sceptics too much air time and giving opinion the same weight as fact.
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
It's Becoming Clear That CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Is, In Fact, Exactly What The Network Needed — Here at Business Insider, we have TVs hanging all over the newsroom, and for the last few days, the one across from me has been showing CNN. — As a result, I can tell you that CNN is, in fact …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Comedy Central Launches Mobile App with 200 Episodes, But the Full Load Isn't Available to Everyone — Comedy Central has at last launched its app for Apple iOS devices, which has been years in the works, stocked with nearly 200 episodes and stand-up specials including “South Park,” …
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
News Corp wins dismissal of U.S. lawsuit over phone hacking — (Reuters) - News Corp, its Chairman Rupert Murdoch and other top officials have won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit accusing them of defrauding shareholders by concealing widespread, illegal phone hacking at two of its British newspapers.
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Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
With help from Twitter's Biz Stone, Colbert kills the @ColbertReport account after tweetstorm — Did Stephen Colbert Bow to Pressure by Deleting @ColbertReport? — The #CancelColbert saga came to a head last night when Stephen Colbert dedicated almost all his show to this past weekend's campaign …
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Mark Bergen / AdAge:
Apple opens iAd Workbench to everyone with an Apple ID, launches video ads — Build Your Own iAd: Apple Throws Open Door to Platform — Apple is making its advertising ecosystem more accessible. — Starting today, anyone with an Apple ID will be able to open an account with iAd Workbench …
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Liz Shannon Miller / Gigaom:
Netflix, Hulu and Amazon bulk up streaming services by offering popular UK TV shows — The new British invasion: Why Amazon, Hulu and Netflix love UK TV shows — For decades, American fans of British accents had it rough. Beginning in the 1970s, the primary access they had to television created …