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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 …
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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.
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Bloomberg Business, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, @michaelroston, @mattblaze, @richbtig and NPR
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Looks at Possible Time Warner Cable Bid
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New York Times
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 …
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FishbowlNY, @jayrosen_nyu, Poynter, @flashboy, @buzzfeedben, @craigsilverman and @cdnwritersgroup
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 …
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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.
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@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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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@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.
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AdExchanger, Beyond Search, mUmBRELLA and Business Insider
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.
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@felixgillette, @erikwemple and @jacobwe
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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