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11:10 AM ET, September 9, 2013

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
POLITICO publisher buys Capital New York  —  In an ambitious play for the New York market, POLITICO publisher Robert Allbritton has purchased the online news site Capital New York, with plans to make “a substantial investment” in the business and more than quadruple staff.
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Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Coming this fall: A new and improved Capital  —  We are in the news this morning: This website, which we launched in June of 2010, has been sold to Robert Allbritton, the owner of POLITICO.  This is going to allow us to get bigger and better.  Here's what we're doing now: - Hiring more people …
David Carr / New York Times:
A Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison Over a Link  —  Barrett Brown makes for a pretty complicated victim.  A Dallas-based journalist obsessed with the government's ties to private security firms, Mr. Brown has been in jail for a year, facing charges that carry a combined penalty of more than 100 years in prison.
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Alexander Zaitchik / Rolling Stone:
Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail
Discussion: @skddc
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
Memo #1 to Jeff Bezos: Try Washington Post Prime  —  Changes at The Washington Post's will be the most watched media story of the coming months and, perhaps, years.  Why?  First of all, with the iconic Watergate saga, The Post epitomized a historic high in print journalism.
Discussion: Markham Nolan
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Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
‘PBS NewsHour’ Begins Its Overhaul  —  The 38-year-old “PBS NewsHour” began a new era this weekend, adding Saturday and Sunday newscasts for the first time and preparing for the debut on Monday of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as the new weeknight anchor team and the first female co-anchors at any network.
David Taintor / Adweek:
CNET Is Targeting the Tech-Hungry Latino Market With a New Site  —  On Sept. 19, CBS Interactive's CNET will introduce CNET en Español, a Spanish-language edition of the tech news site that will be produced by a team of a dozen journalists.  —  To assist in the launch …
Discussion: @lturrentine
Michael Wolff / USA Today:
Tech journalist Kara Swisher is a feared player  —  In every journalism generation, there are various re-enactments of the 1957 movie Sweet Smell of Success, in which Burt Lancaster plays J.J. Hunsecker, the powerful and vindictive Broadway gossip columnist whose self-interest shapes everything he writes.
Discussion: Big News Network.com
Vindu Goel / NYT Bits:
Facebook allows news orgs to search public posts, see aggregate, anonymized data on private posts  —  Facebook Offers New Windows Into Social Conversation  —  Facebook is releasing two new search tools on Monday designed to give news organizations — and potentially, marketers …
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
Yahoo! News Names New Editor in Chief  —  Yahoo! News has hired Megan Liberman, deputy news editor at NYT, to be their new Editor in Chief.  The interim editor was Chris Suellentrop, who will resume his duties as Deputy Editor.  The previous editor was Hillary Frey, now Editorial Director of NBC News Digital. continued...
Discussion: Adweek and FishbowlNY
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Netflix Netherlands Launch Set for Sept. 11  —  Hastings will be in Amsterdam this week to kick off latest expansion  —  Netflix is launching into its next international market this week.  —  As of Sept. 11, the Netherlands will become the latest addition to the streaming service's growing global roster, according to sources.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
‘Riptide’ tells the story of digital news from teletext to Twitter  —  What did the internet do to the news business?  It's a big question, but three Harvard Shorenstein fellows are about to give it the longest and most in-depth treatment it's ever received, in the form of an interactive article called Riptide that launches tonight.
Discussion: Poynter and AllThingsD
Graeme Wood / Businessweek:
Univision's English-Language News Network, Fusion, Targets Millennials  —  Isaac Lee, the Colombia-born 42-year-old in charge of news at the Spanish-language network Univision, is a traitor: first to his native tongue, and second to his generation.  As the architect of the forthcoming …
Discussion: TVNewser
 
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Kaylene Hong / The Next Web:
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Coming out from under a cloud, Howard Kurtz debuts his new show, as host-hunt continues for his old one
Rem Rieder / USA Today:
Storyful verifies social media video from Syria
Discussion: @sarahkeb
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