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9:00 PM ET, April 1, 2014

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 Top News: 
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 …
Discussion: @shaliniwsj and @miriamgottfried
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Liana B. Baker / Reuters:   Comcast: Business services is sweet spot in Time Warner Cable deal
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Comcast Plans $2.5 Billion More in Stock Buybacks
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
London Live's top-rated show draws 22,000 viewers  —  Not the One Show pulls highest audience of night for new channel, but its repeat of Channel 4's Misfits reached just 2,000  —  Not the One Show: its mix of entertainment and current affairs made it the most popular show on the new channel
Discussion: AdAge and The Independent
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
‘60 Minutes’ Apologizes for Audio Editing in Tesla Report  —  “60 Minutes” has apologized for an editing error in Scott Pelley's feature on Tesla founder Elon Musk Sunday night.  —  As an electric car, the Tesla Model S doesn't make a typical engine noise, so the editor added some sound for effect.
Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:
Forbes' Lewis DVorkin responds to criticism of linking journalists pay to web traffic  —  Inside Forbes: The Role of Pay and Traffic in Our Search for a New Media Equation  —  Full disclosure: I've used this headline before.  Actually, only the second half of it.
Discussion: Gigaom, @davisshaver and FishbowlNY
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Upworthy moves into native advertising, inks ad deal with Unilever  —  Upworthy to Run Native Ads That Try to Make You Feel Good  —  Viral Site Eyes Revenue, Signs Unilever as Sponsor  —  Ad Age Digital Conference 2014  —  After two years of building a formidable traffic machine …
Discussion: TechCrunch, Thanks:@joshluger
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Bloomberg considering launch of new politics site; in talks with John Heilemann and Mark Halperin  —  ‘Game change’ for Bloomberg?  —  As part of a developing digital strategy, Bloomberg L.P. has talked to the prominent political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about launching …
Discussion: @joepompeo and @alexweprin
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.
Discussion: The Wrap and Deadline.com
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 …
Liz Shannon Miller / Gigaom:
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 in the United Kingdom was through PBS, which imported classic series like Fawlty Towers …
Madeleine Heffernan / Sydney Morning Herald:
Public debate in danger as News Corp nears monopoly on Australian print market, says ABC chief  —  Media set to get more partisan, says ABC chief Mark Scott  —  The Australian media will likely follow the US and the UK in becoming increasingly politically partisan, according to ABC managing director Mark Scott.
Brendan Sasso / NationalJournal.com:
Netflix's Net-Neutrality Plea Gets Rejected by the FCC  —  But the agency might still regulate negotiations between websites and Internet providers.  —  Kevin Spacey stars in Netflix's House of Cards.  (JEMAL COUNTESS/Getty Images)  —  The Federal Communications Commission has no plans …
 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Dish Launches ESPN, ABC and Disney Internet-Video Services
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
With help from Twitter's Biz Stone, Colbert kills the @ColbertReport account after tweetstorm
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
What to expect from Amazon's TV streaming device
Richard Prince / The Maynard Institute:
FCC Vote Praised as Saving Jobs, Ownership Diversity
Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
Editor of Gawker's “Intern Horrors” section no longer suing Gawker over horrible internship
The Wrap:
Blue Ant Media Invests in YouTube Network Omnia Media
Discussion: Digital Journal
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
StyleHaul Taps Paramount Exec as Content Chief (Exclusive)
Discussion: Tubefilter
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Spotify Poaches Googler Alexander Kubaneishvili To Head Russia, Q3 Launch Planned
Discussion: VentureBeat
Press Gazette:
Glenn Greenwald named this year's recipient of the University of Georgia's McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage
Discussion: Washington Times
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Former Times Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt talks about new vertical, The Upshot
Discussion: @joepompeo
Ed Sussman / PandoDaily:
A framework for social journalism by former fastcompany.com chief Ed Sussman
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Jawbone acquires personalised music playlist app Playground.fm, deal said to be over 8 figures
Discussion: hypebot