Mediagazer: Public-private partnership: Slate and WBUR team up on a podcast, connecting public radio content to a national audience (Justin Ellis/Nieman Journalism Lab)

8:45 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.

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

Discussion: Erik Wemple and FishbowlNY

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Capital editor: 'I'm not going to sleep for the next couple of years'

Discussion: Bloomberg, @nbj914, Politico and @dylanbyers

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

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

Discussion: @jkretch

Adi Robertson / The Verge:

FCC and Verizon square off for the future of net neutrality — Are tubes speech? — Verizon is nearing the end of a legal battle that could render the FCC's net neutrality rules a thing of the past. Today, the two groups presented oral arguments to a DC circuit court …

Discussion: Hillicon Valley, CNET, Broadcasting & Cable, VentureBeat, Reuters, @reckless and PC World

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

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Hearst TV station uses new court ruling to press Aereo in Boston — The legal battle over Aereo took another turn last week after a judge in the District of Columbia issued a nationwide injunction to shut down FilmOn X, a would-be Aereo competitor. — The ruling is already having a knock-on effect …

Greg Sandoval / The Verge: Broadcasters' court victories over FilmOn X threaten Aereo's expansion

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

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

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

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, Businessweek.com and Business Insider

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

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, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, @nytimesbusiness and @peterlauria3

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, Speakeasy, Deadline.com, Mediaite, TVNewser, Al Jazeera English and The Huffington Post

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

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 …

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Public-private partnership: Slate and WBUR team up on a podcast, connecting public radio content to a national audience — As a public radio station, Boston's WBUR is in the business of audio news and storytelling, so the fact that it's launched a new show about health care issues shouldn't be surprising.

Alexander Zaitchik / Rolling Stone:

Barrett Brown Faces 105 Years in Jail — The mid-June sun is setting on the Mansfield jail near Dallas when Barrett Brown, the former public face of Anonymous, shuffles into the visitors hall wearing a jumpsuit of blazing orange. Once the nattiest anarchist around, Brown now looks like every …

Discussion: @skddc