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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Comcast and Time Warner Cable execs grilled by lawmakers — Comcast's David Cohen and Time Warner Cable's Arthur Minson Jr. appearing before Congress. (Associated Press / April 9, 2014) — Senior executives from Comcast and Time Warner Cable were grilled for more than three hours Wednesday …
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The Wrap, Capital New York, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, @erk248, Reuters and Globe and Mail
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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
CBS, Viacom, Disney and other media that count on Comcast for income stay silent on merger — The Absent Voices In The Room — Why CBS, Time Warner, Viacom, 21st Century Fox, Disney, Discovery and other big media companies weren't at Comcast's Senate panel hearing Wednesday. — AP Photo/Susan Walsh
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@buzzfeedben, @ceciliakang, @brianstelter and @jackshafer
Palmer Gibbs / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Comcast and Time Warner Cable give big to some senators reviewing merger
Comcast and Time Warner Cable give big to some senators reviewing merger
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Forbes, @emilysteel, CNNMoney.com, The Huffington Post, Re/code, The Daily Caller, @sunfoundation, Engadget and The Verge
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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Gigaom, New York Times, CNET, Businessweek, Politico, Daily Dot, Softpedia News, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, The Verge, USA Today, Businessweek, @dangillmor, Reuters, Re/code, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, The Switch, Fast Company, PandoDaily, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Gigaom, TheHill, Forbes, VentureBeat, Radio & Television … and Variety
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, NPR, Mediaite, Talking Biz News, @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, VentureBeat, 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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Kirk LaPointe's … and @rogerswrites
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
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, TechCrunch, Forbes, @yoavlurie and @mathewi
Associated Press:
Afghan probe begins in attack on AP journalists — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan central government authorities on Wednesday began questioning the police commander who killed an Associated Press photographer and wounded an AP reporter, a day after he was transferred by helicopter to the capital …
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.
Billboard:
Underwhelming Start to iTunes Radio Lights Fire Under Apple … Questions? Comments? Let us know: @billboardbiz
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Business Insider, Electronista, AppleInsider, MacRumors and TechnoBuffalo
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
How publishers-turned-platforms pay their amateur contributors — As digital publishers look for new ways to make money, many of them are chasing the the publisher-as-platform model. From financial sites like Forbes and The Street to entertainment sites like BuzzFeed and Entertainment Weekly …
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
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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Media & Entertainment
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
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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KCRG-TV, TheGazette and The Times Herald