Mediagazer: Quora raises $85M round led by Y Combinator to expand internationally and develop its ads business; CEO Adam D'Angelo says the platform has 190M monthly uniques (Bérénice Magistretti/VentureBeat)

1:10 PM ET, April 22, 2017

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Bérénice Magistretti / VentureBeat:

Quora raises $85M round led by Y Combinator to expand internationally and develop its ads business; CEO Adam D'Angelo says the platform has 190M monthly uniques — EXCLUSIVE: — Quora is known for being an under-the-radar company. But in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat …

Discussion: Sam Altman, TechCrunch, Mashable, @venturebeat and @jamesliamcook, more at Techmeme », Thanks:@ravichandrans25

Scott Sayare / The Guardian:

How Marine Le Pen used the French press to lead the far-right Front National into the political mainstream — Yet Marine Le Pen has managed to lead the far-right Front National into the political mainstream - and she couldn't have done it without the press

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

The Financial Times launches Due Diligence, a new subscriber-only M&A newsletter used partly to present scoops it can't fit elsewhere — “We want to draw people's attention to the fact that we cover the entire totality of a deal with the same aggression that we would try to get a scoop."

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Harry A. Jessell / TVNewsCheck:

A day after FCC eased TV station ownership limits, Sinclair Broadcast Group announces acquisition of 14 TV stations in 8 markets from Bonten Media for $240M — The deal will add Bonten Media Group's 14 stations in eight markets that reach approximately 1% of the U.S. TV households.

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