Mediagazer: Telecom Italia Said to Reach Web-TV Deal With Murdoch's Sky (Daniele Lepido/Bloomberg)

1:25 PM ET, April 10, 2014

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Michael Calderone / Huffington Post:

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Vindu Goel / New York Times:

Twitter and Facebook Wield Little Influence on TV Watching — Listen to executives at Twitter and Facebook talk about how we watch television and you might walk away thinking that Americans are chattering nonstop on the social networks while watching their favorite shows.

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Bloomberg:

Charter Weighs Consequences of Bidding War for Time Warner Cable — Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) has Charter Communications Inc. (CHTR) caught in a bind. — Nearly two months after Comcast trumped its bid for Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC), Charter is still debating whether to compete for the New York-based cable provider.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:
Analyzing Comcast's argument for taking over Time Warner Cable

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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times: Comcast and Time Warner Cable execs grilled by lawmakers

Daren Butler / Reuters:

Turkey keeps YouTube block despite court rulings — (Reuters) - Turkish authorities defied court orders and reaffirmed a ban on YouTube imposed after the posting of illicit recordings of top secret security talks that was cited by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan as part of a “dirty campaign” to topple him.

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

News of the World boss denies trying to keep Mulcaire ‘sweet’ with payments — Kuttner tells Old Bailey he was advised to continue paying after investigator was charged with phone hacking related offences — The former managing editor of the News of the World, Stuart Kuttner …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Stuart Kuttner tells court he knew Milly Dowler's voicemail had been hacked

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Maggie Michael / Associated Press:

Egyptian Judge Dismisses Videos In Trial Of Al Jazeera Journalists — CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian judge has dismissed videos presented by the prosecution as evidence in the trial of three Al-Jazeera journalists on terrorism charges. — The Thursday hearing saw footage …

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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian: Video evidence used against al-Jazeera journalists filmed by other networks

AbcnewsPr / ABC News:

James Goldston Named President of ABC News — Ben Sherwood sent the following note to ABC News staff this morning announcing that James Goldston will be the next President of ABC News. — As my partner these past three years, James Goldston has helped lead ABC News to new heights.

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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

YouTube Hurts Music Album Sales, Research Finds — In recent years many academics have researched the link between Internet piracy and the revenues of the major music labels, with varying results. Some have concluded that there is no adverse impact of piracy on sales, others argue that there's a moderate negative relation.

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Lucia Moses / Digiday:

Why Business Insider lets its reporters fly on sources' dimes — Henry Blodget isn't one to be a slave to convention. After his crash as a financial analyst, he built Business Insider into a site topping 25 million uniques on a mix of click-bait and in-depth executive profiles.

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Sam Thielman / Adweek:

Hulu's Head of Development Exits: Charlotte Koh leaves as NewFronts presentation nears — Hulu's head of original programming development, Charlotte Koh, is leaving the company. — No details around the departure were provided by Hulu, and the exit is puzzling especially given the timing.

Discussion: Business Insider, Hollywood Reporter, @adweek, Variety and Deadline.com

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Murdoch: Post might ‘quite likely’ go all-digital in 10 years — The New York Post might “quite likely” be a digital-only publication in another 10 years, according to Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the newspaper's parent company, News Corp. — In a wide-ranging interview with Fortune …

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Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg:

Telecom Italia Said to Reach Web-TV Deal With Murdoch's Sky — Telecom Italia SpA (TIT), the country's largest phone company, is teaming with Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia SpA for an Internet-TV service to attract broadband customers, two people familiar with the matter said.

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC must tackle complacency over the way it spends licence fee, say MPs — £100m Digital Media Initiative was a “complete failure”, according to public accounts committee — The BBC must tackle a “culture of complacency” in the way it spends licence fee payers' money, MPs say …

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Christine Dobby / Financial Post:

CBC to slash 657 full-time jobs over 2 years as broadcaster adjusts to future without sports — Canada's national broadcaster told employees Thursday it will eliminate 657 full-time jobs over the next two years as it faces a $130-million financial shortfall.

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Digital advertising hits $43B, passing broadcast TV for the first time ever — Above: Digital ad revenue passed $40B in 2013 — Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation.

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CBS:

Stephen Colbert To Succeed Letterman On ‘Late Night’ — Don't Miss This — Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. — CHICAGO (CBS) — CBS announced on Thursday that Stephen Colbert will succeed David Letterman on “Late Night.”