Mediagazer: Broadband Streams New Courtroom Drama (Miriam Gottfried/Wall Street Journal)

6:45 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.

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Capital editor: 'I'm not going to sleep for the next couple of years' — With its acquisition by Politico Publisher Robert Allbritton, the New York website Capital will go on a hiring spree, adding 20 or so journalists to its coverage of New York power centers.

Discussion: Bloomberg, @nbj914, Politico and @dylanbyers

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

VandeHei on Capital NY purchase: “We're coming to play. We don't do small ball.” — Politico Expands In NY With Capital New York Purchase — NEW YORK — Politico, which has grown from startup to dominant player in Washington, D.C., media over six-and-a-half years …

Discussion: Erik Wemple and FishbowlNY

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: Journalism.co.uk, GigaOM, Storify, Nieman Journalism Lab, The Wrap, FishbowlNY, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Poynter, Fast Company, 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

Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:

Broadband Streams New Courtroom Drama — Legal Battle Over How Far the FCC Can Go in Regulating Broadband Providers May Open New Paths to Profit for Cable and Telecom Companies — The battle for the living room has spilled into the courtroom. — The Federal Communications Commission …

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

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, Daily Mail, Guardian, theweek.co.uk, The Independent 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, @jayrosen_nyu, @cgasparino, Gannett Blog and Big News Network.com

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, Adweek, Skift, @hels and @rafat

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

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

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

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 …

Discussion: Politico, Deadline.com, Business Insider, Mediaite, TVNewser and Al Jazeera English

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, Mashable and TechCrunch

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, @vivianschiller, @jayrosen_nyu and @azmatzahra