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

10:10 AM 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.

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

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BSkyB bid may still be on cards, says 21st Century Fox president — Chase Carey refuses to rule out fresh attempt to take full control, but says there will be no major acquisitions in near future — Chase Carey, the president of 21st Century Fox, has hinted that a renewed bid to take full control …

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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 — Steven Sotloff, the American journalist murdered by Islamic State militants last week, was sold to the terrorist organization by supposedly moderate rebels in Syria, a family spokesman told CNN on Monday night.

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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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Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Esquire uses interstitial ad with donate button on article to benefit James Foley scholarship, partnering with TinyPass and Atavist — Esquire Sets Up Paywall to Benefit James Foley Memorial Fund — Ahead of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Esquire magazine is putting …

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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 …

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Brendan Sasso / National Journal:

Netflix to Join ‘Internet Slowdown’ Protest Over Net Neutrality — Your videos won't load slower, but the protest could add more pressure on the FCC to enact tough rules. — If you see a spinning loading icon when you try to watch Netflix videos Wednesday, there isn't a problem with your Internet connection.

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Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Nancy Pelosi urges FCC to reclassify broadband as a utility

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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: 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 …

Discussion: Variety, @pkafka, @kevdonahue, @galenwnewton, @socialtechmo, @mccollumashley, @lapuravida, Digiday and Facebook

Ben Smith / Guardian:

BuzzFeed comes not to bury newspapers, but to improve on them — The ‘unbundling’ of news is good for readers and for print journalism too — At many newspapers, the most important half hour (if you're lucky) of the day is spent in a sober meeting, fighting over which stories will appear, and where, in the paper.

Discussion: @fieldproducer, @lexinyt and @johnmcquaid

Re/code:

Reddit raising over $50M for less than 10% of the company, at a valuation upwards of $500M — Reddit Raising a Big Round, and Some Y Combinator Players Are in the Mix — Reddit, the social news site with a big Web footprint, is raising a big funding round — with help from some of the people …

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Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note:

Letter to investor about $50M spent on BuzzFeed: Why contribute to “intellectual decrepitude”? — BuzzFeed: An Open Letter to Ben Horowitz — Ben Horowitz, the erudite cofounder of the Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) firm is a respected heavyweight in the Silicon Valley's venture capital milieu.