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4:55 PM ET, September 9, 2014

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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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Poynter
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
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.
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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 …
Discussion: @isikoff, @isikoff and Hit & Run
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.
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 …
CNET:
Apple's iTunes scores U2's new album.  You score it free.  —  Every iTunes customer — more than 500 million people, but who's counting? — get the band's new album free in what CEO Cook calls the largest record release in music history.  —  A half billion people are getting a new album …
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
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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Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
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