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4:00 PM ET, April 24, 2015

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Comcast Corporation:
Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement  —  Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter Transactions Terminated  —  Comcast Corporation announced this morning that its merger agreement with Time Warner Cable and its transactions agreement with Charter Communications, Inc. have been terminated.
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Emily Steel / New York Times:
Comcast and TWC combined would have controlled 57% of national broadband market, too high a threshold for FCC and DoJ  —  Comcast Confirms End of Deal With Time Warner Cable  —  Comcast confirmed Friday that it had called off its $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable …
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Net neutrality debate shifted regulators' focus on Comcast/TWC merger from cable TV to broadband, sinking the deal  —  Once Comcast's Deal Shifted to a Focus on Broadband, Its Ambitions Were Sunk  —  When it was announced a little more than a year ago, it felt to many like a sure thing.
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Looks at Possible Time Warner Cable Bid
Discussion: New York Times
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Comcast held acquisition talks with Vox Media, but deal fizzled within the last month
Bloomberg Business:
Comcast's hurdles were too high, despite political donations, deep Washington ties, and $17M spent on lobbying
Discussion: Poynter, Variety and TechCrunch
Simon Houpt / Globe and Mail:
BuzzFeed hires Craig Silverman to head Canadian expansion  —  BuzzFeed hires author of award-winning book on journalistic errors to head Canadian team  —  BuzzFeed, the news and viral content factory that has sometimes been burned by made-up news stories, has hired a leading warrior …
Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:
Fusion names Alexis Madrigal editor-in-chief, gives new roles to Jane Spencer, Hillary Frey, and Anna Holmes  —  Fusion shuffles digital editorial team; names new editor in chief  —  Alexis Madrigal, the former Atlantic journalist who has served as Fusion's Silicon Valley bureau chief since November …
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
McClatchy Q1 earnings: net operating loss of $11.3M, with print ads down 15.7% YoY, national advertising down 25%  —  McClatchy's stock continues to take a pummeling  —  McClatchy reported a first quarter net operating loss of $11.3 million and more deep declines in print advertising today as its stock continues to takes a pummeling.
Discussion: @mtdukes
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Jake Tapper will anchor CNN's State of the Union  —  CNN Sundays are about to change 01:07  —  Story highlights  —  New York (CNN)Jake Tapper is the next anchor of CNN's Sunday morning political interview program “State of the Union.”  —  CNN announced Tapper's promotion on Friday morning.
Robert Mackey / New York Times:
College student in Turkey gets one-year suspended sentence for tweeting satirical news story  —  Turkish College Student Convicted for Tweeting Satirical News Story  —  A provincial court in Turkey sentenced a college student to one year in prison on Thursday for the offense of …
Discussion: Hurriyet Daily News and @digiphile
George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:
AppsFlyer offers measurement tool for TV ads focused on mobile app installs  —  AppsFlyer Launches TV Attribution Tool  —  Will help app marketers track the ROI of TV ad campaigns  —  The mobile ad measurement platform AppsFlyer has released a new ad measurement and attribution tool …
Discussion: LostRemote, VentureBeat and PRWeb
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Six US press organizations warn that anti-paparazzi laws may be used to harass journalists  —  Media Groups Stand Up for Justin Bieber Chaser With Nod to Ferguson  —  An appeals court is warned that a California law could be used as a “tool” by police to harass journalists.
Discussion: @eriqgardner
Garett Sloane / Adweek:
Google testing Doubleclick Audience Center ad platform to improve ad targeting  —  Google Builds a Data Platform That's the Last Piece of Its Ad Empire  —  Google is testing a new advertising product seen as the last piece it needs to complete its ad tech superstructure.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Slate Group chairman should have disclosed ties to Sony boss in piece denouncing publishing of hacked emails  —  Slate Group chairman should have included disclosure in Sony piece  —  On Dec. 15, Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, wrote a strong opinion piece on his flagship site.
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Fewer than half Johnston Press staff think it is ‘good place to work’, according to company survey  —  Fewer than half of Johnston Press's employees (48.9 per cent) would recommend the company “as a good place to work”, according to an internal staff survey.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney, Fox Refuse to Air Verizon FiOS TV Ads Amid Dispute Over Custom Bundle  —  Disney and Fox have informed Verizon Communications that they won't run the telco's ads for the new FiOS Custom TV service on their TV networks — after both media conglomerates complained that the package was not authorized under existing contracts.
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Scott Moritz / Bloomberg Business:
Disney Blocks Verizon Custom TV Ads in ‘Skinny Bundle’ Dispute
Discussion: @pkafka, AdAge and Reuters
 
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Politico:
A year after the firings of two top women editors, four journalism leaders discuss the challenges of editing while female.
Discussion: @poojadesaid
Kim Willsher / Guardian:
Le Monde editorial director pick Jérôme Fenoglio beat out three public candidates to the surprise of staff and needs 60% vote for approval
Committee to Protect Journalists:
Libyan journalist shot dead in Benghazi TV office
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