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Politico’s Owner Purchases Another News Site
Robert Allbritton, the owner of Politico, is expanding his digital empire with the purchase of online news site Capital New York. The move comes a little more than a month after the Washington media mogul agreed to sell his eight television stations for nearly $1 billion.Because Influencing Election Results Is Weird
I hope people don’t take the forecasts too seriously. You’d rather have an experiment where you record it off from the actual voters, in a sense, but we’ll see. If it gets really weird in 2014, in 2016, then maybe I’ll stop doing it. I don’t want to influence the democratic process in a negative way.
— Nate Silver, to a Washington University audience, suggests that he might stop writing the FiveThirtyEight blog if it starts to influence election results
The Politico VandeHei and Allen Show Is in Full Swing (Video)
You don’t need a poll to tell you this: Political Web sites are growing in influence.If You Get the Muppets to Sign On, Hillary’s In
I was delighted to read about your interest in sharing the big screen with me. As you can imagine, I am a little occupied at the moment, but perhaps someday I can help you forget Sarah Marshall … again. My only condition is that there be Muppets involved, and that is non-negotiable.
— Hillary Clinton, in reply to Jason Segel’s joking remarks to Jimmy Fallon and Us Weekly about the Secretary of State starring in a movie with him
BuzzFeed Bulks Up Again, With a Tech Section Run by Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan
Another well-known writer for a site that used to specialize in other people’s writing. This one says he’ll write about “tech for humans.”Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments
A partnership between Facebook and Politico announced today is one of the more far-reaching efforts to understand how social media users feel about U.S. election candidates.News Byte
Buzzfeed Raises $15 Million to Make More Buzzy Content
News aggregator/newsmaker Buzzfeed has raised a $15.5 million C round led by New Enterprise Associates. The New York-based site, run by Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti, also features HuffPo co-founder Ken Lerer as investor and chairman, and former HuffPo sales boss Greg Coleman has joined as a board advisor. The site recently signaled its intent to generate more of its own content, designed to be flung around users’ social networks, by hiring Politico blogger Ben Smith to beef up its editorial ranks.Facebook, MoveOn Vets Working on Mystery Media Start-Up for Lefties
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is backing a news venture from former MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser that they’re calling a “viral media start-up” for progressives.News Byte