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10:05 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 …

Discussion: @dylanbyers, @mtblumencron, BuzzFeed, FishbowlDC, Washington Post, The Daily Caller, @niemanlab, @lehmannchris, @albertozilio and @wblau

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.

Discussion: Politico, New York Times, The Huffington Post, @atossaaraxia and @raju

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

Dylan Byers / Politico:
Politico partners with German publisher Axel Springer to launch European edition

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, @ggbirnbaum, @wblau, @alexckaufman, @annelaumen and New York Magazine

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

Alice Truong / Fast Company:
ISIS-affiliated Twitter account calls for assassination of Twitter employees, Twitter investigating

Discussion: Mashable, Vocativ, SFGate Blog, The Hill, Firstpost, The Inquisitr News, The Wire, Daily Mail, International Business Times, Washington Post, Business Insider and The Daily Caller

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?

Discussion: Adweek, Wall Street Journal, Billboard, AppleInsider, Reverb, Washington Post, New York Times, @emwhitenoise, Mashable, Hollywood Reporter and The Verge

CNET: Apple's iTunes scores U2's new album. You score it free.

Capital New York:

The 60-second interview: Kevin Roose, writer, New York Magazine — ROOSE: It's something I used to struggle with. Silicon Valley is much thinner-skinned than Wall Street, and it's less accustomed to criticism. So you write something mildly negative about a tech company, and suddenly your emails aren't getting returned.

Discussion: Talking Biz News

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.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Broadband TV News, Hollywood Reporter, Televisual, Advanced Television, @davidfolkenflik and broadcastnow.co.uk

Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BSkyB bid may still be on cards, says 21st Century Fox president

Discussion: Forbes, Digital TV Europe and London Evening Standard

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: Wall Street Journal, @danprimack, @laragon and New York Times

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.

Discussion: MediaPost, Hollywood Reporter, Associated Press and @mlcalderone

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.

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Reddit uses “free speech” to defend the site's unsavory uses while ignoring the victims — Reddit is a failed state — The “front page of the internet” is run by warlords — As Reddit trips over itself trying to contain its stolen nude photo problem, CEO Yishan Wong finally addressed …

Discussion: Mashable, VentureBeat, Gigaom and Business Insider

Joe Parkinson / Wall Street Journal:

Turkey Tightens Grip Over the Internet — Government Augments Its Web Censorship to More Quickly Block Content — Turkey tightened control over the Internet and expanded the powers of its telecoms authority, augmenting the government's web censorship regime to allow it to more quickly block content without legal delays.

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Wordpress uses Hall of Shame to highlight people, companies overzealous with takedown notices — WordPress shames Janet Jackson for bullying bloggers and issues a new takedown report — Powerful celebrities and companies are bullying some of the millions of bloggers who use …

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.