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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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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
So far, NBC News finds Brian Williams embellished at least 11 times — A months-long internal investigation of Brian Williams by NBC News has turned up 11 instances in which the anchorman publicly embellished details of his reporting exploits, according to a person familiar with details of the probe.
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CNNMoney, Latest News & Headlines and Mediaite
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC's D.C. bureau strongly opposed Brian Williams's return in February — Journalists in NBC News's powerful Washington bureau expressed strong opposition to the potential return of suspended anchorman Brian Williams during a contentious meeting with the head of the network's news division in February.
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TVNewser and @jayrosen_nyu
Wall Street Journal:
AT&T deal for DirecTV presents fewer problems for regulators than Comcast's Time Warner Cable deal — AT&T deal for DirecTV presents fewer problems for regulators than Comcast's Time Warner Cable deal — Two big media deals were announced in the first half of 2014. Only one is likely to survive.
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Bloomberg Business:
Comcast's Week-Long Unraveling of TWC Deal Was Months in the Making — The collapse of Comcast Corp.'s plan to buy Time Warner Cable Inc., which played out in public over the course of a week, was months in the making. — When Comcast announced its $45.2 billion bid 14 months ago …
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New York Times
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 …
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@nyercurrency, @jonathanmahler, @annehummert, @hshaban, New Yorker, Variety, New York Times and The Atlantic Online
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Looks at Possible Time Warner Cable Bid
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Bloomberg Business, BGR and The Huffington Post
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 Corporation:
Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement
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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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Patrick Gavin / Politico:
The WHCA dinner represents everything people hate about the Beltway and shouldn't be taken so seriously — Nerd Prom Is a Mess — How to fix Washington's worst week. — Lead image by AP Photo. — Everyone knows the White House Correspondents Association dinner is broken.
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Poynter, New York Magazine, Fusion, @jayrosen_nyu, @davidfolkenflik, New York Magazine and Washington Post
Capital New York:
Business Insider President Julie Hansen talks about expansion plans in video, tech news, international markets, and subscription service — The 60-second interview: Julie Hansen, president and C.O.O., Business Insider — CAPITAL: Business Insider recently raised a $25 million funding round.
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Capital New York and @ajs
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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PR Newswire, @mtdukes and Random Pixels Blog
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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