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3:15 AM ET, December 4, 2014

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 Top News: 
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Dish, Writers Guild, Glenn Beck's TheBlaze, consumer groups, and more launch Stop Mega Comcast coalition to fight $45B TWC merger  —  Coalition Opposes Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger  —  A group of companies, public interest groups and labor unions have joined forces to urge regulators …
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Ted Johnson / Variety:
FCC resumes AT&T/DirecTV and Comcast/TWC merger reviews, establishes new deadlines for comments  —  FCC Restarts Clocks on Comcast-TW Cable, AT&T-DirecTV Merger Reviews  —  The FCC has restarted the clock on its review of the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
BuzzFeed expanding San Francisco bureau to 20 staffers, hires Mat Honan from Wired as bureau chief  —  Wired's Mat Honan Hired to Run New Buzzfeed Silicon Valley Bureau  —  Matt Honan, the high-profile Wired writer and editor, has been hired by Buzzfeed to be its new Silicon Valley bureau chief.
Jim Romenesko:
TheStreet.com investor urges Jim Cramer to take a 70% pay cut or sell the company  —  The head of Cannell Capital hedge fund wants Jim Cramer to consider two options: quit CNBC and focus on TheStreet.com at significantly reduced pay; or sell the 18-year-old financial news website.  —  J. Carlo Cannell writes:
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Dismisses Yahoo Rumors, Talks Up HuffPo  —  To hear AOL CEO Tim Armstrong tell it, a merger with Yahoo might slow down his ongoing plans for an AOL turnaround.  —  Speaking during a keynote interview at Business Insider's Ignition conference in New York …
Gustavo Arellano / Navel Gazing:
Layoffs at Freedom's OC Register, Riverside Press-Enterprise, affecting 100, mostly in sales  —  100 Layoffs Happening at OC Register, Riverside P-E TODAY: UPDATE  —  1ST UPDATE, 11:40 A.M.: Here's a note from new Orange County Register publisher Rich Mirman explaining the layoffs to his crew.
Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
CNN refocuses on digital: site redesign in January, standalone CNNMoney site, revamped politics coverage  —  CNN digital's big reboot  —  For CNN's digital operations, the word of 2014 could be “reboot.”  —  In June, the company launched CNNMoney.com as a standalone financial news destination.
Discussion: @alexweprin, @aschweig and FishbowlDC
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Founder and Editor Ann Marie Gardner steps down at Modern Farmer  —  Ann Marie Gardner steps down at Modern Farmer  —  Staff and contractors of Modern Farmer have been informed that founder and editor in chief Ann Marie Gardner has stepped down from the celebrated food-culture magazine she founded in 2013 …
New York Times:
Investigation continues into Sony hack, company claims news of North Korea being singled out as culprit is “not accurate”  —  Sony Pictures and F.B.I. Investigating Attack by Hackers  —  LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures Entertainment and the F.B.I. on Wednesday were hunting …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Barry Diller's IAC Shuts Down nRelate Content-Recommendation Network  —  IAC, the digital-media conglomerate headed by Barry Diller, is pulling the plug on nRelate, its native-advertising division that sold content-recommendation ad inventory distributed via thousands of web publishers.
Human Rights Watch:
Iran extends Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian's pretrial detention for two more months  —  Iran: Journalist's Detention Extended  —  Washington Post Reporter Held 4 Months, but Not Charged  —  (Beirut) - Iran's judiciary has extended Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian's pretrial detention for another two months.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Top Bloomberg Pursuits editors leave abruptly amid shakeup  —  The two top editors at Bloomberg Pursuits, the luxury personal finance magazine from Bloomberg LP, left the company on Wednesday.  —  Ted Moncrieff, the editor of Bloomberg Pursuits, had joined the magazine in December 2012.
Discussion: @joepompeo and @aubernalevy
 
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