Mediagazer: VandeHei on Capital NY purchase: “We're coming to play. We don't do small ball.” (Michael Calderone/The Huffington Post)

5:25 PM 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.

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
VandeHei on Capital NY purchase: “We're coming to play. We don't do small ball.”

Discussion: Erik Wemple

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:
Coming this fall: A new and improved Capital

Discussion: The Wrap, @media_shepherd, FishbowlNY, @gillianmae, Poynter and @tmcgev

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Livefyre Acquires Storify, Says The Social Curation Service Will Still Operate As Standalone Product — Livefyre, a commenting platform used by TechCrunch and other websites, is announcing that it has acquired social curation startup Storify. — The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed …

Discussion: GigaOM, Journalism.co.uk, Storify, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, Fast Company, AllThingsD, Poynter, VentureBeat, Big News Network.com, @nycjim, Livefyre | Blog, The Next Web, @xdamman, Mashable and @lavrusik

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Why Livefyre acquired Storify: Helping brands become better storytellers, and the road to an IPO

Discussion: @jkretch

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 …

Discussion: The Verge, GigaOM, PandoDaily, Facebook, @asmitch, Digital TV Europe, @jrudis, memeburn, PC Advisor, Journalism.co.uk, @lavrusik, The Drum, Kirk LaPointe's … and bizjournals

John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC's ‘squabbling’ executives slammed by MPs amid payoffs scandal — Performance by seven senior staff in front of MPs ‘can only damage reputation of the BBC’, says Margaret Hodge — BBC governance is not fit for purpose and its senior managers are not up to the job or more interested in …

Discussion: Guardian

Reuters:
Ex-BBC boss Thompson defends BBC severance payments in British parliament

Discussion: Press Gazette, Telegraph, The Independent, Daily Mail, Guardian, theweek.co.uk and BBC

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: @esofge, @sandonet, Gannett Blog, @jayrosen_nyu, @cgasparino and Big News Network.com

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.

Alexander Zaitchik / Rolling Stone:
Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail

Discussion: @skddc

Brooks Barnes / New York Times:

Jeff Shell, Television Executive, to Take Over at Universal Studios — LOS ANGELES - Jeff Shell, an NBCUniversal television executive, will soon take over day-to-day operations at Universal Studios, according to three people briefed on the development. Ron Meyer, who has been the movie …

Discussion: The Wrap, Variety, @peterlauria3 and @nytimesbusiness

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Time Inc. buys Food & Wine, other Amex-owned titles — Time Inc. is expected to unveil a deal to purchase all five titles from American Express Publishing Magazine Group, including Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine, The Post has learned. — Also being sold are magazines that go exclusively …

Discussion: New York Times, @hels, @rafat and Skift

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

Businessweek Partners with Netflix for Henry Paulson Documentary — It has been five years since Wall Street suffered its melt down, and Businessweek wants to celebrate. In an interesting way, of course. The magazine has partnered with Netflix to produce Hank: Five Years From the Brink …

Discussion: New York Times, The Wrap, Home Media Magazine, Business Insider and PR Newswire

Michael Rondon / Folio:

People Tries New Tiered-Subscription Model — More price points, more exclusive digital content. — People is revamping its subscription model, putting a premium on its digital products and adding new entry points. — Readers can go print- or digital-only for $112 per year …

Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:

Yahoo tunes into mobile video with new application — SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) — Yahoo is auditioning for a bigger role on iPhones and iPads with the release of its first mobile application tailored for watching video on touch-control screens. — The app, called Yahoo Screen …

Discussion: Yahoo, AllThingsD, TechCrunch and Mashable

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.

Discussion: @lerenzulli, @jayrosen_nyu, @vivianschiller and @azmatzahra

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Google+ Brings Embedded Posts to Publishers (Just Like Twitter and Facebook) — In an effort to expand the reach of its social network, Google on Monday announced that third-party publishers can now embed Google+ posts into their websites. — Simply put: A site like AllThingsD could grab …

Discussion: CNET, Forbes, TechCrunch and The Next Web

Arti Patel / Folio:

Time Inc. and Turner to End CNNmoney.com Partnership — The website joint venture will dissolve in May 2014. — Time Inc. and Turner, CNN's parent company, have decided to dissolve their partnership in running their CNNmoney.com joint venture, effective May 30, 2014.