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12:47 PM ET, April 22, 2014

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Jennifer Khoury Newcomb / Comcast Voices:
Comcast Response to Netflix's Opposition to Time Warner Cable Transaction  —  Netflix's opposition to our Time Warner Cable transaction is based on inaccurate claims and arguments.  There has been no company that has had a stronger commitment to openness of the Internet than Comcast …
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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Netflix opposes Comcast-TWC merger over ‘anticompetitive’ concerns  —  Netflix has come out in opposition of Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable, writing in a letter to shareholders that the merger would give the combined service provider “even more anticompetitive leverage” …
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Beats Expectations With 4M New Subscribers, Earnings Of 86 Cents Per Share  —  Netflix today released its first-quarter financial results, with the company beating analyst expectations.  For the first three months of the year, the company reported earnings of 86 cents per share on revenues of $1.27 billion.
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Netflix Calls Out AT&T for Lackluster Streaming Performance  —  Netflix Inc. (NFLX:US), stepping up its criticism of Internet service providers, called out AT&T Inc. (T:US) for offering video-streaming speeds that trail even those of phone companies with inferior technology.
Discussion: Businessweek, Gigaom, Reuters and Gigaom
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
An Exlcusive Interview With Aereo CEO Ahead Of Supreme Court Trial  —  Today, the David-vs-Goliath moment that we've all been waiting for will finally arrive.  In just a few short moments, Aereo CEO Chet Kanojia and his legal team will enter the Supreme Court Courthouse to make final oral arguments against multiple broadcasters.
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:   Supreme Court Judges Worry About Scope of Aereo Decision, Say It Could Affect Cloud Computing
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Aereo's Supreme Court case could catch TiVo and others in its crossfire
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
New York Times launches The Upshot, aims to make data journalism part of “daily news cycle”  —  Navigate News With The Upshot  —  You have no shortage of excellent news sources — sources that expertly report and analyze news as it happens.  Like you, those of us at The Upshot rely on those sources every day.
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Brian Ries / Mashable:
Report: Vice Journalist Captured in Eastern Ukraine  —  Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky has been taken by militia in Eastern Ukraine, a Russian news outlet reports.  —  The reporter for Vice News, who has been filing a series of compelling video dispatches from Ukraine since early March …
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Jonah Lehrer quietly launches new blog, gets Gladwell boost  —  On March 28, disgraced ex-New Yorker writer Jonah Lehrer quietly launched a blog under his own name.  —  On Thursday, he got a Twitter boost from an unlikely source.  —  “Jonah Lehrer is back with a new blog.  It is well worth reading.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Richard Turley, Businessweek's creative director, leaving for MTV  —  Businessweek's creative director leaves  —  Richard Turley, the creative director of Bloomberg Businessweek, is leaving the publication for MTV.  “[I]t's time for me to learn something new and work with different content …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Felix Salmon to Leave Reuters  —  Felix Salmon, a prominent writer at Reuters on finance and the news media, said on Monday that he was leaving the news agency.  —  Mr. Salmon declined to release details of his new job when reached by phone on Monday, but in an email sent to colleagues he explained he was …
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Vogue.com staffing up; site to be relaunched in September during NY Fashion Week  —  Vogue.com in Expansion Mode  —  Vogue is in the process of expanding its Web site, WWD has learned.  The magazine, which redesigned its site in 2010, is amassing a bigger staff comprised of a mix of new hires …
Jack Shafer:
Intelligence Community Directive 119, a gag order that makes the public less safe, not more  —  The top spook's stupid gag order  —  The nation's top spy has prohibited all of his spies from talking with reporters about “intelligence-related information” unless officially authorized to speak.
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Steven Aftergood / Secrecy News:
DNI bars US Intelligence Community from leaking even unclassified information to media
 
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Craig Silverman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why Vox (and other news orgs) could use a librarian
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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
Journalists Kicked Out Of Al Jazeera Trial In Egypt
Todd Spangler / Variety:
AT&T, Chernin Group Invest $500 Million to Form Over-the-Top TV Venture
Discussion: VentureBeat, Gigaom, VentureBeat and CNET
Anthony Crupi / Adweek:
TiVo: Adherence to C3 Is Sucking Millions Out of TV Ad Market
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