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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Charter to acquire Time Warner Cable for $55B in cash and stock, including debt, values TWC at $78.7B; buys Bright House for $10.4B — It's Official: Charter to Acquire Time Warner Cable in Deal Valued at $78.7 Billion — Charter Communications, in which John Malone's Liberty Media owns a big stake …
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Charter Communications to Merge with Time Warner Cable and Acquire Bright House Networks — Charter Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR) (together with its subsidiaries “Charter") and Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Charter to merge with Time Warner Cable.
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Wall Street Journal:
Charter Deal With TWC More Likely to Get Approval Than Comcast — The $55 billion merger may sit better with regulators than Comcast's ill-fated attempt — A Charter Communications Inc. merger with Time Warner Cable Inc. stands a better shot at regulatory approval than Comcast 's ill-fated attempt …
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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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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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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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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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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
How Spotify plans to apply to video what it's learned with music — Spotify's Tricky Pivot: Getting Passive Audio Listeners to Actively Watch Video — Spotify on Wednesday unveiled its ambitions to expand from music streaming into video and podcasts. At a splashy press event in New York …
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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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.
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 …
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