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8:40 AM ET, September 10, 2013

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
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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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
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 …
Discussion: MarketWatch
Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
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 …
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable and @mquintos
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Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:   Broadband Streams New Courtroom Drama
Jason Leopold / Al Jazeera America:
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” …
Josh Sternberg / Digiday:
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.
Discussion: @zimbalist, Thanks:@steverubel
Markham Nolan:
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.
Richard Pendry / Columbia Journalism Review:
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.
Tom Kulaga / INMA:
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) …
Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:
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.
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
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 …
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
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.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Huffington Post
Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
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 …
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 …
Edirin Oputu / Columbia Journalism Review:
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 …
Discussion: @brianpindc
Variety:
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.
Discussion: @raminsetoodeh and FishbowlNY
 
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Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
TV Ad Spending Up 6.4% In 2nd Quarter
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Public-private partnership: Slate and WBUR team up on a podcast, connecting public radio content to a national audience
Discussion: @niemanlab and NPR
Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:
Hearst TV station uses new court ruling to press Aereo in Boston
Discussion: The Verge
Michael Rondon / Folio:
People Tries New Tiered-Subscription Model
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John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC's ‘squabbling’ executives slammed by MPs amid payoffs scandal
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Arti Patel / Folio:
Time Inc. and Turner to End CNNmoney.com Partnership
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Yahoo tunes into mobile video with new application
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Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Netflix Netherlands Launch Set for Sept. 11
Vindu Goel / NYT Bits:
Facebook allows news orgs to search public posts, see aggregate, anonymized data on private posts
David Taintor / Adweek:
CNET Is Targeting the Tech-Hungry Latino Market With a New Site
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Reuters:
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