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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 …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Full memo from Politico CEO Jim VandeHei and editor-in-chief John Harris on European expansion — POLITICO partners with Axel Springer for European expansion — POLITICO is teaming up with the Berlin-based media company Axel Springer to launch a European edition.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Politico partners with German publisher Axel Springer to launch European edition — POLITICO partners with Axel Springer to launch European product — POLITICO will partner with the German media conglomerate Axel Springer to create a European edition of POLITICO, CEO Jim VandeHei informed staff on Tuesday.
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Reuters:
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Doepfner wants to double profits, seeks to buy new assets — Axel Springer CEO aspires to more than double profits — (Reuters) - German publisher Axel Springer's chief executive Mathias Doepfner aspires to more than double the publisher's core profit to 1 billion euros …
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Michael Isikoff / Yahoo! News:
In high-tech battle, Washington and Islamic State compete over hearts and minds — Yahoo News 4 hrs ago — While President Obama prepares to lay out his military strategy on Wednesday to bomb, “degrade” and ultimately “defeat” the Islamic State, U.S. government officials are already locked in an intense …
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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.
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
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Catherine Mayer / TIME:
Bono On U2's Not-So-Free iTunes Album: “We Were Paid” — Now the secret is out—and distributed. For the more than half a billion iTunes subscribers, the new U2 album will be arriving in their iTunes libraries. But why did U2 decide to release Songs of Innocence in this way?
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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.
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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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Ed Mazza / The Huffington Post:
Steven Sotloff Was Sold To ISIS By ‘Moderate’ Rebels, Family Spokesman Tells CNN
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Andrew Chung / Reuters:
Fox loses bid to halt TV monitoring service — (Reuters) - Fox News cannot stop a media monitoring service from recording snippets of its broadcasts and offering them to clients, some of which use them to criticize the network, a New York federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
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MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter, Associated Press and @mlcalderone
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 …
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William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Alan Rusbridger: Source confidentiality is ‘in peril’ and needs ‘urgent action’ to combat state spying — Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger has called for “urgent action” to protect journalists' sources after last week's revelation that the Met Police had spied on the phone records of Sun political editor Tom Newton Dunn.
Ted Johnson / Variety:
FCC Chairman Sets Vote to End NFL Blackout Rule — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has scheduled a vote for Sept. 30 on a proposal to end the near 40-year-old sports blackout rules, which he says “make no sense at all.” — The rules prohibit cable providers from airing a game that has been blacked …
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