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10:40 PM ET, September 16, 2015

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CNBC:
Sources: Cablevision to be acquired by European telecoms company Altice for $17.7B including debt  —  Altice to buy Cablevision for $17.7B including debt: Sources  —  Acquisitive Netherlands-based telecoms company Altice will buy U..S. cable television provider Cablevision for $17.7 billion including debt, sources told CNBC.
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
La Presse to drop weekday print edition beginning January 1, 2016, push readers to La Presse+ tablet edition  —  Quebec's La Presse to scrap weekday print edition to focus on app  —  La Presse will scrap its weekday print edition starting Jan. 1, staking its future on its popular tablet app …
Peter Sterne / Politico:
SEC filing indicates BuzzFeed aims to raise an additional $100M to add to earlier $200M from NBCUniversal  —  Buzzfeed could raise another $100 million in current funding round  —  Buzzfeed could raise an additional $100 million as part of its current funding round, according to documents that the company filed with the SEC today.
Nora Doyle-Burr / Concord Monitor:
Public library in New Hampshire votes to continue supporting Tor for anonymous browsing despite concerns from DHS, police and local government  —  West Lebanon library to keep backing Tor  —  From left, Mary Sorens, of West Lebanon, N.H., Carla Gericke, of Manchester, N.H., Jason Sorens …
Discussion: Techdirt, The Verge, Slate, NPR and Fortune
Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:
Warner Bros. Sells Digital Content Distribution Service to Vubiquity as It Trims Costs  —  Warner Bros. is outsourcing its digital content distribution business as it fights to trim overhead costs.  —  The studio sold its Digital-End-to-End managed content service to Vubiquity …
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Amazon offers Prime members Washington Post National Digital Edition subscriptions free for six months, then $48 per year  —  Jeff Bezos (finally) pumps up the Post with Prime  —  In a potentially game-changing move, Amazon will begin offering free to dirt-cheap subscriptions to The Washington Post …
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
How Recode, Reuters, Popular Science, The Week, Mic, The Verge, and USA Today's FTW have continued talking with readers after shutting off comments  —  What happened after 7 news sites got rid of reader comments  —  Recode, Reuters, Popular Science, The Week, Mic, The Verge …
Discussion: @burgos
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
AT&T Taps Former Sirius XM, Cisco Exec as Video and Internet CTO  —  Enrique Rodriguez joins telco after former DirecTV CTO Rômulo Pontual exits  —  AT&T has hired Enrique Rodriguez as executive VP and chief technical officer for its Entertainment and Internet business …
Discussion: Multichannel News
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Publishers need to focus on sustainable business models and journalism that works in tandem with that model  —  Popping the Publishing Bubble  —  Over the last few weeks and months there has been increasing alarm that today, September 16, is a critical one for publishers — and by critical …
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Kim Dotcom gets support fighting US extradition in Megaupload copyright case from Larry Lessig  —  Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig Steps Up To Assist Kim Dotcom  —  After failing in a last ditch attempt to have their extradition hearing delayed once again, next week Kim Dotcom …
Discussion: Techdirt
 
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