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12:25 PM ET, September 9, 2014

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Leo Barraclough / Variety:
21st Century Fox's Chase Carey on Time Warner: 'We've Moved On'  —  LONDON - “We've moved on,” said Chase Carey, president and chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox, when asked whether there would be a renewed bid for Time Warner at a London TV industry conference Tuesday.
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BSkyB bid may still be on cards, says 21st Century Fox president
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Steven Sotloff spokesman blasts White House handling  —  A spokesman for Steven Sotloff's family contends the slain American journalist was sold to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant by Syrian rebels and says the Obama administration “could have done more” to save him.
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Luisa Beltran / PE HUB:
Thomson Reuters puts peHUB, Buyouts and VCJ on block  —  Thomson Reuters puts peHUB, Buyouts and VCJ on block: UPDATED  —  Thomson Reuters has put a package of specialty publications on the block, including peHUB, Buyouts and Venture Capital Journal, two sources said.  —  The auction is believed to be early.
Discussion: @laragon and New York Times
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Politico Gearing Up For Europe Expansion  —  NEW YORK — Politico is planning to expand into Europe through the launch of a new organization based in Brussels, Belgium, the capital of the European Union.  —  On Monday morning, Politico CEO Jim VandeHei told senior editors that the company's plans …
Alice Truong / Fast Company:
ISIS-affiliated Twitter account calls for assassination of Twitter employees, Twitter investigating  —  A now-suspended Twitter account seemingly affiliated with the extremist group ISIS has been calling for the assassination of employees who work at the social network.
Discussion: Vocativ and The Daily Caller
Todd Spangler / Variety:
ESPN Films, FiveThirtyEight to Launch 2 Short Documentary Series (Exclusive)  —  ESPN Films and Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight stats-based journalism blog this fall will roll out a pair of documentary-short series keying off the analytical approach cultivated by FiveThirtyEight …
Discussion: @natesilver538
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Facebook drops hints that it's eyeing content recommendation, too  —  Facebook is quietly dropping hits that it may be getting into the content-recommendation game.  This should come as no surprise, as Yahoo has launched its own content-recommendation widget and Google is reportedly working one as well.
Discussion: Mediaite and Business Insider, Thanks:@steverubel
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
With a Big Push From Facebook, Facebook Video Is Booming.  Heads Up, YouTube.  —  Do you like watching videos on Facebook?  —  You're not alone.  And you're going to be seeing a lot more of them.  —  That's the word from Facebook, which is excited about the rapid uptake of its new …
Alex Ritman / Hollywood Reporter:
Prospective BBC Trust Head Takes Grilling from U.K. Politicians  —  Rona Fairhead says she can balance the BBC governing body job with non-executive directorships at HSBC and PepsiCo  —  The U.K. government's preferred choice to head up the governing body of the BBC was questioned by members …
Discussion: Guardian, BBC, Telegraph, City A.M. and Guardian
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
The NFL Blows Away All Other TV Shows on Twitter  —  The National Football League rules TV.  So it's not surprising that it rules social TV.  In fact, when it comes to delivering a Twitter audience, the NFL beats the rest of the primetime schedule and it's pretty much a blowout.
Discussion: @digitalshields
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Nancy Pelosi urges FCC to reclassify broadband as a utility  —  A good number of politicians have recently made statements in favor of net neutrality, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is going further than most of them today and asking that the Federal Communications Commission reclassify broadband …
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Ezequiel Minaya / Wall Street Journal:
Venezuela's Press Crackdown Stokes Growth of Online Media
Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:
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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
Future offers free digital editions with print in September
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Nielsen Finds Older Adults Are Embracing Digital Video
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Wall Street Journal launches perks program for subscribers