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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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TVNewser, The Wrap, Talking Points Memo, Mashable, The Huffington Post, The Week, Gothamist, The Daily Caller, @jayrosen_nyu and Variety
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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, USA Today 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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@jayrosen_nyu and TVNewser
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:
FCC Chief Tom Wheeler confounds former allies and wins praise from public interest groups with net neutrality rules and Comcast/TWC merger rejection — Comcast Trips Over Wheeler's Nixon-to-China Moment as FCC Chief — Tom Wheeler came to the Federal Communications Commission in 2013 …
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bizjournals and New York Times
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
How Comcast failed to get merger support in Congress despite $25M spent on lobbying in 2014 — Intense Lobbying Failed to Assure Comcast's Deal — WASHINGTON — David L. Cohen, the master salesman who runs the Comcast Corporation's lobbying efforts, stood before a room full …
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Wall Street Journal, @reddy, @thedudekabides, @libbybrittain and @seandrankin
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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U.S. Department of Justice and Electronista
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
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@nyercurrency, @jonathanmahler, @annehummert, @hshaban, New Yorker, Variety and New York Times
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Charter Looks at Possible Time Warner Cable Bid
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Bloomberg Business, New York Times and BGR
Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
WHCD is a celebration of a system of access journalism that failed to detect a phony war — On the deep grammar of the White House Correspondents Association Dinner — “The Washington press corps is like that big extended family with a terrible secret that cannot be confronted …
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@shoq, @jayrosen_nyu, @nicdawes, @drudge, @lizsly, @jayrosen_nyu and Washington Post
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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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whca.net, @sunlorrie, New York Magazine, Fusion, Poynter, @jayrosen_nyu, @davidfolkenflik and New York Magazine
Reena Flores / CBS News:
At White House Correspondents dinner, Obama slings jabs mostly at presidential contenders and some at TV news — Obama slings jabs at the White House Correspondents dinner — Shares - — WASHINGTON — At the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Obama weighed in Saturday …
Brooks Jackson / FactCheck.org:
Three new studies show most readers value fact-checking, practice is increasing, and rating systems are popular — Fact-Checking Is More Popular than Politicians — New research shows that the public views political fact-checking journalism — the sort of thing we do here — far more favorably than it does most politicians.
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American Press Institute and Columbia Journalism Review
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
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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TVNewser, @marklotto, @felixsalmon, Poynter, @fmanjoo, @lizzieohreally, @hilella, @annaholmes, @walthickey, @mathewi and Broadcasting & Cable
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