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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Politico Founder Sees $1,000 a Year Fee for Capital N.Y. — Robert Allbritton, publisher of Washington politics website Politico, plans to charge subscription fees of about $1,000 a year for a high-end version of newly acquired media and politics blog Capital New York.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Capital editor: 'I'm not going to sleep for the next couple of years'
Capital editor: 'I'm not going to sleep for the next couple of years'
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Politico, Erik Wemple, @nbj914, Folio, Columbia Journalism Review and Forbes
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Statement From Business Insider — A Business Insider executive has made some comments on Twitter that do not reflect our values and have no place at our company. The executive has left the company, effective immediately. — Business Insider's team is composed of more than 100 talented men …
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Connor Simpson / The Atlantic Wire:
Controversial CTO Pax Dickinson Is Out at Business Insider
Controversial CTO Pax Dickinson Is Out at Business Insider
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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
Amidst IPO Rumors, Outbrain Hires Its First CFO, Jeff Davison
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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.
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix Stock Hits All-Time High — At $306-a-share, the streaming service is up more than 219 percent in 2013. — Netflix's stock has surpassed $306-a-share, representing an all-time-high for the streaming service. — In early day trading, the stock is up more than 4 percent …
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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.
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Sara Morrison / The Wrap:
Time Inc. Acquires American Express Publishing — Time Inc. will buy all five of American Express Publishing's magazine titles, the company is set to announce on Tuesday. Time Inc. CEO Joseph Ripp sent a memo to employees informing them of the deal. — TheWrap previously reported that the deal was “very close” to being finalized.
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Press Gazette:
New Statesman agrees content-sharing deal with The New Republic — Left of centre political weekly New Statesman has signed a content-sharing deal with US magazine The New Republic. — Under the deal, New Statesman will carry three pieces from The New Republic each week - and vice versa.
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The New Republic and @nbj914
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” …
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Matthew Holehouse / Telegraph:
Culture Secretary ‘has doubts over BBC Trust’ — Future of the BBC Trust called into question again after a cabinet minister indicated the Culture Secretary has doubts over the body. — Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, said Maria Miller shared his view that the BBC Trust is failing to do its job.
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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.
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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.
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Columbia Journalism Review, @mlcalderone and @kavitharao
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Apple launches iTunes radio — Apple is now in the web radio business, and because of the size of the iTunes membership, the service instantly becomes one of Pandora's top competitors. — Apple unveiled iTunes Radio today at a press event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino.
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Radio & Television …, 9to5Mac, Billboard, @alexpham and App Advice
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Telegraph Media Group hires PBS's Jason Seiken as chief content officer — Editors of Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph will report to Seiken, a former editor-in-chief of Washington Post website — Telegraph Media Group has hired Jason Seiken, head of digital for US public service broadcaster PBS …
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Press Gazette, @mediaguardian, @lisaocarroll and @jasondeansy
Jim Romenesko:
Patch editors will be working harder, not smarter — What's Patch's editorial strategy now that it's laid off hundreds of staffers and closed many of its sites? Here's a report from a Romenesko tipster: … Care to add to this, Patch staffers? Post in comments or send me an email.
Tim Molloy / The Wrap:
Kevin MacLellan Replacing Jeffrey Shell as Head of NBCU International — Kevin MacLellan has been promoted to chairman of NBCUniversal International, following Jeff Shell's move to chairman of Universal's Filmed Entertainment Group. — MacLellan is based in London, as Shell was before his appointment Monday.
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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 …
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Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
Broadband Streams New Courtroom Drama