Mediagazer: Exclusive: YouTube Product Head Shishir Mehrotra to Depart — But Will Remain Advisor (Kara Swisher/Re/code)

1:25 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” …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Washington Post, ZDNet, Politico, Variety, The Huffington Post, Financial Times and Re/code

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.

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Beats Expectations With 4M New Subscribers, Earnings Of 86 Cents Per Share

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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.

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Here comes The Upshot, the new explanatory journalism effort from the New York Times

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Brian Ries / Mashable:

American Journalist With Vice News Captured in Eastern Ukraine — Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky has been taken by militia in Eastern Ukraine, Mashable has learned. — The reporter for Vice News, who has been filing a series of compelling video dispatches from Ukraine since early March …

Discussion: @vicenews, @matthewkeyslive, @rosiegray, @mathewi and TIME

Adam Satariano / Bloomberg:

Study: households spent 10% less at Amazon in states where online sales tax introduced — Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is taking a hit in states that are collecting an online sales tax. — In one of the first efforts to quantify the impact …

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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 …

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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 …

Discussion: MediaWire Daily, @womensweardaily and @laureni

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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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 …

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Kara Swisher / Re/code:

Exclusive: YouTube Product Head Shishir Mehrotra to Depart — But Will Remain Advisor — Shishir Mehrotra, YouTube's head of product and a longtime Google exec, will depart the company, but will be maintain an advisory role at the premium online video giant.

Tim Molloy / The Wrap:

Supreme Court Judges Worry About Scope of Aereo Decision, Say It Could Affect Cloud Computing — Several of the Supreme Court justices who heard arguments in the broadcast networks case against the online TV site Aereo expressed concern Tuesday that any decision they pass down would also affect cloud computing.