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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:
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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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, New York Times and The Atlantic Online
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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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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Looks at Possible Time Warner Cable Bid
Charter Looks at Possible Time Warner Cable Bid
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Bloomberg Business, BGR and The Huffington Post
Comcast Corporation:
Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement
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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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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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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@craigsilverman, @flashboy, @stevebuttry, @lindseywiebe, Poynter, @titocurtis, @cdnwritersgroup, @jayrosen_nyu, @hermida, @buzzfeedben and FishbowlNY
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 …
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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