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Ed Hammond / Bloomberg Business:
Sources: Charter may announce it is buying Time Warner Cable for $55.1B tomorrow, Bright House Networks will also be merged into the combined company — Charter Near Deal for Time Warner Cable at $195 a Share — Charter Communications Inc. is near an agreement to buy Time Warner Cable Inc …
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Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Sources: Twitter has held talks to acquire Flipboard in an all-stock deal valued at over $1B, but talks are now stalled — Twitter Has Held Talks to Acquire Flipboard — Twitter has been engaged in an ongoing series of talks to acquire Flipboard, according to multiple sources with knowledge …
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VentureBeat, Medium, @digiphile, @kurtwagner8, The Next Web, @caseynewton, @mathewi and @stephenhall_
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian's trial closed to the public — FILE, The Washington Post's Jason Rezaian (Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post) — Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian will go on trial Tuesday on espionage charges in a Tehran courtroom that will be closed to the public, including his family.
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@anupkaphle and @postbaron
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Zahir Janmohamed / PRI:
300 days in prison: My friend, Jason Rezaian — Credit: Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post via Getty Images — The last time I saw my friend, the Washington Post Iran correspondent Jason Rezaian, we were sitting at a café in San Francisco, a few blocks away from the Bay Bridge.
Washpostpr / Washington Post:
New statement from Martin Baron ahead of Jason Rezaian's trial in Iran — Statement from Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron ahead of Jason Rezaian's trial in Iran: — The shameful acts of injustice continue without end in the treatment of Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian.
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CNNMoney, New York Times, Poynter and @postbaron
New York Times:
Fusion Media Aims at Millennials, but Struggles to Find Its Identity — In 2011, when Isaac Lee, president of news for Univision, set out to persuade his company and Disney to back Fusion, a digital news service and cable channel he wanted to start, he promised nothing less than the holy grail …
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@albertocairo, @tcarmody, @katrinanation and @kylepope
Montreal Gazette:
Montreal news outlets end contract of longtime foreign correspondent, Francois Bugingo, accused of fabrication — TVA Group terminates contract of reporter accused of fabrication — The Journal de Montréal, Journal de Québec, and TVA Nouvelles announced Monday that they've ended …
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CBC News and Canada - The Huffington Post
Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Charlie Hebdo struggles with aftermath of attacks — Four months on, staff are still dealing with emotional trauma as well as wrangles over the donations that flooded in from around the world — Through a chink in the wall of heavily armed, plainclothes police who chaperone him round the clock …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Total cost of Met Police's journalism investigations rises £4m in eight months to £37.4m — The Metropolitan Police has now spent £37.4m on investigations into journalism, with the figure rising by nearly £4m in the last eight months.
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Media Executives Are Salivating Over Big Money Flooding the 2016 Election Cycle — At least one small slice of the American public looks forward to the non-stop, sleazy political advertisements set to inundate viewers during the 2016 elections: media executives and their investors.
Hurriyet Daily News:
Erdogan tells New York Times to “know your place” after editorial criticizing criminal charges against Turkish editors at Hurriyet Daily News — Erdogan blasts New York Times: ‘Who are you? Know your place’ … Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoan has slammed a recent …
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New York Times, Agence France-Presse and TodaysZaman
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Police source leaked Milly Dowler messages, NoW reporter tells court — Neville Thurlbeck says Andy Coulson was unaware that voicemails were illegally intercepted and did not query source — A police source leaked transcripts of the missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler's voicemails to Glenn Mulcaire …
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@lisaocarroll and @mwilliamsthomas