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8:05 AM ET, April 10, 2014

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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
Discussion: Daily Dot, Techdirt and Businessweek
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 …
Billboard:
Underwhelming Start to iTunes Radio Lights Fire Under Apple  —  The failure of iTunes Radio to halt the decline of music downloads has prompted Apple Inc. to consider the most dramatic overhaul of its iTunes music store in more than a decade, according to executives familiar …
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 …
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.
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.
Rosie Swash / Guardian:
Bobbi Brown to become Yahoo beauty editor-in-chief, raising conflict of interest questions  —  Makeup mogul Bobbi Brown to take over Yahoo's beauty section  —  Founder of Bobbi Brown cosmetics will keep her role at makeup company while fulfilling new role as section editor-in-chief
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Stuart Kuttner tells court he knew Milly Dowler's voicemail had been hacked  —  Former News of the World managing editor tells phone-hacking trial he knew paper was ‘in possession’ of voicemail recording  —  A former managing editor of the News of the World told a court he knew Milly Dowler's voicemail …
Discussion: Bloomberg, BBC, thedrum.com and mUmBRELLA
Jim Romenesko:
Miami Herald editor blasts unprecedented ‘culture of censorship’ at Guantanamo Bay  —  Last month, four Miami Herald journalists who visited the Guantanamo Bay detention center were told they couldn't publish the names of staff members and had to photograph troops from the neck down.
Jack Gillum / Associated Press:
Obama administration will probe whether ZunZuneo, or “Cuban Twitter,” sent political messages  —  WAS ‘CUBAN TWITTER’ PROGRAM POLITICAL OR NOT? … WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is looking into whether a “Cuban Twitter” program secretly backed …
Alison Langley / Columbia Journalism Review:
An English-language news site in Sweden is expanding across the continent  —  An English-language news site in Sweden is expanding across the continent  —  In 2004, James Savage and Paul Rapacioli were two Brits who had fallen in love with Swedes, leaving them with a need to find work in Stockholm.
Discussion: The Local
 
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Paul Sandle / Reuters:
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