Mediagazer: Turkey keeps YouTube block despite court rulings (Daren Butler/Reuters)

12:20 PM ET, April 10, 2014

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Michael Calderone / Huffington Post:

Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras Returning To U.S. For First Time Since Snowden Revelations — NEW YORK — Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, two American journalists who have been at the forefront of reporting on documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden …

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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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Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
CBS, Viacom, Disney and other media that count on Comcast for income stay silent on merger

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

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

Associated Press:

Egypt judge dismisses videos in Al-Jazeera trial — 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, allegedly filmed by the detained journalists …

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

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.

Discussion: Mashable, International Business Times, Daily Sabah and Hurriyet Daily News

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.

Discussion: On The Media, Lost Remote, @vindugoel, Mashable, @learmonth and @zseward

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.

Discussion: Softpedia News

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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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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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.

Discussion: @ryanchittum and Talking Biz News

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

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.

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 …

Discussion: Press Gazette

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.”

Discussion: Guardian, Business Insider, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, Variety and The Verge

Dylan Byers / Politico:

MSNBC breaks silence, will allow Scarborough to speak at GOP fundraiser — MSNBC will allow host Joe Scarborough to deliver the keynote address at a political fundraiser next month, even though it denied that privilege to host Ed Schultz earlier this year. — “Joe isn't participating in a fundraiser.

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Associated Press:

CNN replacing Piers Morgan with a rotating schedule of documentary-style programs — CNN replacing Morgan with specials — NEW YORK (AP) — CNN is replacing Piers Morgan's prime-time talk show with not one program but several — featuring personalities like Mike Rowe, John Walsh, Lisa Ling, Anthony Bourdain and Morgan Spurlock.

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