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12:10 PM ET, September 10, 2013

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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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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.
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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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
Discussion: MarketWatch
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.
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.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Report: Business Insider's CTO forced out after offensive tweets  —  Business Insider fired Chief Technology Officer Pax Dickinson Tuesday after reports about his Twitter feed roiled some Twitter users, Stefan Becket reports.  Monday evening, prompted by a Valleywag story …
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” …
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 …
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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John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC's ‘squabbling’ executives slammed by MPs amid payoffs scandal
Discussion: Guardian and Guardian
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.
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
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Vimeo On Demand gets rent and own pricing options, preorders, promo code generator, and more advanced stats  —  Vimeo today announced a big update to Vimeo On Demand (VOD), its direct distribution platform.  The new features include rent and own pricing options, preorder availability via …
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) …
Discussion: @munkjournalism
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 …
 
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Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Twitter moves closer to IPO by buying mobile ad start-up MoPub
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Harder Edge From Vanity Fair Chafes Some Big Hollywood Stars
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Variety:
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Discussion: @raminsetoodeh and FishbowlNY
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
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

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