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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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Tim Wu / New Yorker:
Comcast deal fell apart because regulators looked at how it used its power to limit competitors by charging new fees to Netflix, limiting access to HBO Go, more — The Death of the Comcast Deal — In February of 2014, when Comcast announced its plans to acquire Time Warner Cable …
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
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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Looks at Possible Time Warner Cable Bid
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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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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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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Sources: internal NBC probe of Brian Williams' war accounts has examined six instances, including Tahrir Square statements; investigation continues — Brian Williams Inquiry Is Said to Expand — An NBC News internal investigation into Brian Williams has examined a half-dozen instances …
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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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BuzzFeed:
Behind small news agency CEN and its misleading stories and images that lure traffic to places like the Daily Mirror and New York Daily News — The King of Weird News … Last November, within a few hours of each other, some of the planet's biggest news websites published an irresistible story.
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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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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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Edward Delman / The Atlantic:
Russian lawmaker claims RT is a lobbying instrument not a media tool, but declaring it a foreign agent may prove difficult — When Is a TV Channel a Foreign Agent? … Where do the limits of a free press lie? If one were to ask Ilya Ponomarev, a member of the Russian parliament …
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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