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Palmer Gibbs / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Comcast and Time Warner Cable give big to some senators reviewing merger — Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is a vocal critic of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. Franken is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which holds a hearing about the merger on Wednesday.
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Forbes, CNNMoney.com, @emilysteel, The Huffington Post, @sunfoundation, The Daily Caller, Engadget and The Verge
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Comcast and Time Warner Cable execs grilled by lawmakers
Comcast and Time Warner Cable execs grilled by lawmakers
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The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, Capital New York, New York Times, @erk248, Reuters and Globe and Mail
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
CBS, Viacom, Disney and other media that count on Comcast for income stay silent on merger
CBS, Viacom, Disney and other media that count on Comcast for income stay silent on merger
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@buzzfeedben, @ceciliakang, @brianstelter and @jackshafer
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast: Without Time Warner Cable, we can't compete against Google, Netflix
Comcast: Without Time Warner Cable, we can't compete against Google, Netflix
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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
NYT should have acknowledged WSJ's persistent legal fight to open up Medicare data — Times Should Have Nodded to Wall Street Journal in Medicare Story — The New York Times led its print edition today with an extensive treatment of an important story: that a small fraction of doctors …
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USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Mediaite, NPR, @jackshafer, @erikwemple, @ashleyshuston, The Week, The Verge and Associated Press
Brad Stone / Businessweek:
Automattic, Steward of Wordpress, Snaps up Longreads — In the desert of short news bites and unsatisfying blog posts, the website and weekly email Longreads is a refreshing anomaly. Since 2009, the small Oakland-based company has been linking to stories of over 1,500 words …
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WordPress.com News, Longreads.com, Gigaom, TechCrunch, @dankennedy_nu, Re/code, @brewpr and The Verge
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Why CNN Is Launching A News Show Built For Twitter — As every media company from Yahoo to Microsoft to Crackle looks to up the amount of original Web video it produces, here comes CNN. — The television news network has been in the middle of major overhaul undertaken …
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Columbia Journalism Review, Mediaite, Lost Remote, @jcstearns, @jennifersaba and @mdornic
Jim Bach / American Journalism Review:
A New Code: SPJ Struggles to Define Rules of Online Journalism — The Society of Professional Journalists, after leaving its code of ethics untouched for nearly 18 years, has released a revised draft that includes, for the first time, updated guidance on how journalists should behave in the rapidly changing field of digital news.
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@rogerswrites
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Q&A site Quora raises $80M to build the next Wikipedia — Quora believes it has built the best question and answer service on the Internet. Now, it's looking to Wikipedia for inspiration. — With a fresh $80 million in the bank, Quora's head of business operations, Marc Bodnick …
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Gigaom, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Reuters, @mathewi, @yoavlurie, Forbes and TechCrunch
Joel Achenbach / Achenblog:
Journalism is aggregation — While reporting a story last week I had a sudden revelation: I'm an aggregator. I'm one of them. I'm the person that I've been kvetching about for years now. “They think information wants to be stolen.” You know the rant.
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Nieman Journalism Lab, Erik Wemple and @jfleck
Carrie Battan / The New Republic:
Podcasts: The Last Refuge of the C-List Celebrity (and Bret Easton Ellis) — oday we're going to talk about goddamn camera phones, and everybody wanting to take a picture of every goddamn thing," the rapper-turned “Law and Order: SVU” star Ice T said recently. “ This is not gangster. This is not fly.
Mike Farrell / Multichannel News:
Cablevision Names Kristin Dolan COO — Sweeney Gets President Nod — Cablevision Systems finally found a replacement for former chief operating officer Tom Rutledge, and she was part of the family all along. — Cablevision said it has named former president of Optimum Services Kristin Dolan as COO, effective immediately.
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Billboard:
Underwhelming Start to iTunes Radio Lights Fire Under Apple … Questions? Comments? Let us know: @billboardbiz
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Business Insider, Electronista, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider and MacRumors
Edirin Oputu / Columbia Journalism Review:
WNYC is beefing up its data journalism — New York's public radio station is expanding its data reporting — WNYC's data team has tracked a lot over the years: cicadas, flood zones, and even wireless internet access on the subway. Now the station's newest project, a community data experiment called …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Oxygen Shifts Focus to Millennial Viewers — In another sign of the growing influence of the millennial generation on Madison Avenue, the Oxygen cable channel will be revamped to appeal to a modern young woman, offering several new series with a multicultural focus.
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@sulinnichols
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Hibu lays off nearly 200 journalists — Chalk up another flop to another plan to turn a profit with digital hyper-local media. — Hyper-local was the all the rage a few years ago, but there are few success stories in 2014. — Hibu, which was the former Yellow Pages, had an aggressive plan …
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TheGazette, KCRG-TV and The Times Herald
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Frothy media reporting about tech companies could signal another financial bubble — The press and the tech bubble — How the groundwork might be laid for another Big One — Here's a headline you don't like to see if you're worried about a possible social-media/tech bubble:
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Marty Baron is partly right about the Washington Post and Ezra Klein — but mostly wrong — It's hard enough being the editor of a newspaper like the Washington Post at the best of times — and these are clearly not the best of times — but it has to be even harder to try and defend your decision …
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Felix Salmon and @dankennedy_nu, Thanks:@mathewi