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Outbrain plans IPO valued at $1 billion for 2014 - reports — Outbrain, the biggest of the content engines that help publishers serve suggested stories and ads, will reportedly seek $200 million from Wall Street in 2014. — Outbrain, a startup that helps publishers like CNN and USA Today serve ads …
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AllThingsD, Globes Online, eMedia Vitals, The Times of Israel and Shalom Life Canada
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Amidst IPO Rumors, Outbrain Hires Its First CFO, Jeff Davison — Content discovery service Outbrain is announcing that it has hired Jeff Davison as its chief financial officer. — The news comes about a day after multiple reports from Israel (where Outbrain has offices and its technical team …
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MarketWatch

House bill aims to prevent broadcast TV blackouts — Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) proposed draft legislation on Monday aimed at ensuring that cable TV customers don't lose access to their local broadcast stations. — The discussion draft is a response to the month-long blackout of CBS stations …
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Broadcasting & Cable and @mquintos
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FCC and Verizon square off for the future of net neutrality
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Hillicon Valley, Broadcasting & Cable, Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat, CNET, @reckless, Reuters and PC Advisor


FBI continues to investigate Hastings for ‘controversial reporting’ … The FBI released a heavily redacted document on Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, Monday, which revealed the law-enforcement agency is continuing to investigate what it characterized as “controversial reporting” …
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@saramorrison, @jasonleopold, @jaredbkeller, @bmaz, @jasonleopold, @goddamnedbear, @dangillmor, @barryeisler, @onekade, @antderosa and @dellcam


The New Yorker Goes Native — In January, when the Atlantic ran sponsored content on behalf of Scientology, the media world went apoplectic. Last month, when the New Yorker began experimenting with sponsored content, no one made a peep. Times have changed.
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@zimbalist, Thanks:@steverubel


News needs to go Netflix — The way we buy news is a ridiculous bundling mess. The news needs to go Netflix. — I don't buy weekday newspapers now, that change happened years ago, because no one newspaper is going to have all the news I want to read. Simple fact. Buying one paper means a lot of redundancy.
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eMedia Vitals, @martinsfp and Monday Note


In Syria, freelancer demand amidst increasing restrictions — New outlets are happy to reap the rewards of dangerous reporting, so long as freelancers shoulder all responsibility — News organizations are desperate for Damascus-based reporters, so they are calling on freelancers, stretching their own rules against doing so.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @mlcalderone and @kavitharao


New York Times partners with BlackBerry to market new DealBook — BlackBerry 10 DealBook sponsorship creatively gets the brand and its new product to its target, C-level audience. — Faced with the most critical product and marketing juncture in its history, Research in Motion (RIM) …

Netflix Added to Virgin Media U.K. TV in Industry First — Netflix Inc. (NFLX)'s subscription-video service will be offered on Virgin Media cable systems in the U.K., marking the first time the Web-delivered product is integrated by a major pay-TV provider.
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BBC, Multichannel News, Guardian, Engadget, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Broadband TV News, seenit.co.uk, Compare Mobile Phones …, Home Media Magazine and Variety


Twitter moves closer to IPO by buying mobile ad start-up MoPub — SAN FRANCISCO — Ahead of the most anticipated initial public stock offering since Facebook, Twitter bought mobile advertising exchange MoPub, its largest acquisition to date. The deal was part of Twitter's ongoing effort …
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blog.twitter.com, TechCrunch, USA Today, New Statesman, Reuters, Bloomberg, Guardian, TechWeekEurope UK, NYT Bits, Computerworld, AdAge, The Drum, Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, ZDNet and VentureBeat


Harder Edge From Vanity Fair Chafes Some Big Hollywood Stars — For years, the relationship between Vanity Fair and Hollywood was like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: the magazine gave the movie business class and Hollywood gave Vanity Fair sex. — But even the best relationships can hit a rough patch.
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FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post


Univision, Al Jazeera Anchors Slam Obama After Being Left Out of Media Blitz (Updated) — Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and Al Jazeera English senior political analyst Marwan Bishara lashed out after their networks were left out of President Obama's media blitz, writing that the president …
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Politico, TVNewser, Deadline.com, Al Jazeera English, Speakeasy, Mediaite and The Huffington Post


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 …

PolicyMic is making user contributions just as important as a writer's original content — Even more interactive news — PolicyMic is making user contributions just as important as a writer's original content — Clickable. Shareable. Likeable. Social media increasingly drives …
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@brianpindc


Variety Taps Entertainment Journalist Ramin Setoodeh as New York Film Editor — Newsweek/Daily Beast alum to cover all aspects of film biz and make regular TV appearances — Entertainment journalist Ramin Setoodeh has joined Variety as New York film editor, covering all aspects of the movie business and other media.
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@raminsetoodeh and FishbowlNY