Top News:
Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Analyzing Comcast's argument for taking over Time Warner Cable — Comcast has very bad reasons for wanting to buy Time Warner Cable — Defending the massive takeover to the FCC requires some leaps of logic — Comcast wants to own the internet — or, at least, the cables that carry it to most Americans' homes.
Discussion:
Softpedia News, Techdirt and Daily Dot
RELATED:
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
Comcast and Time Warner Cable execs grilled by lawmakers
Discussion:
The Wrap, Capital New York, Wall Street Journal, 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
Discussion:
@buzzfeedben, @ceciliakang, @brianstelter and @jackshafer
Palmer Gibbs / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Comcast and Time Warner Cable give big to some senators reviewing merger
Discussion:
Forbes, CNNMoney.com, @emilysteel, The Huffington Post, The Daily Caller, @sunfoundation, Engadget and The Verge
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Comcast: Without Time Warner Cable, we can't compete against Google, Netflix
Discussion:
Gigaom, New York Times, CNET, Politico, Businessweek, Engadget, Los Angeles Times, Re/code, Guardian, Lost Remote, USA Today, Businessweek, Reuters, Re/code, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, The Switch, Fast Company, PandoDaily, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, @dangillmor, 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 …
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
Columbia Journalism Review, Mediaite, @jcstearns, Lost Remote, @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.
Discussion:
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.
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
Gigaom, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, 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 …
Billboard:
Underwhelming Start to iTunes Radio Lights Fire Under Apple … Questions? Comments? Let us know: @billboardbiz
Discussion:
Business Insider, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Electronista 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 …
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.
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.
Discussion:
@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.
Discussion:
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 …
Discussion:
Felix Salmon and @dankennedy_nu, Thanks:@mathewi
Output Producer, CA — 
China Markets Correspondent, Shanghai — 
Senior Assignment Editor, DC — 
Breaking News Editor, Tokyo — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Research Director, CA — 
Immigration Enforcement Reporter — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Sports Reporter, WA — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Political Newsletter Writer, CO — 
Jackson Reporter, MS — 
Music Editor, AZ — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Reporter II - Technology, Remote — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
