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5:45 AM ET, November 7, 2012

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Marc Tracy / The New Republic:
Nate Silver Is a One-Man Traffic Machine for the Times  —  “FiveThirtyEight is drawing huge traffic,” New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson told me yesterday.  She added, “What's interesting is a lot of the traffic is coming just for Nate.”  —  There has been plenty of controversy …
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The New York Times is trying to make its mobile apps more than simple containers for news stories  —  Each cycle, live election coverage serves as a premier testbed for online news.  Now The New York Times is using it as a test bed for pushing news in apps beyond the rigid templates that have characterized the form.
Discussion: Wired and ReadWrite
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Nate Silver, By The Numbers  —  There's a 90.9% chance that tonight is going to cap the best three weeks of Nate Silver's life.  —  Silver is the statistics whiz behind Five Thirty-Eight, the political forecasting blog he started in 2008 and brought to The New York Times in 2010, where he continues to write it.
Discussion: PandoDaily, VH1 Celebrity and Mediaite
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Here's What the New York Times' Nate Silver Traffic Boom Looks Like  —  You thought we were done talking about Nate Silver today?  Think again!  —  Here, for instance, is an excellent piece by the New Republic's Marc Tracy, which details the huge spike in traffic the New York Times has seen to Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog.
Discussion: @mthomps and Mediaite
Margaret Sullivan / @sulliview:   Nate @fivethirtyeight Silver has his very own dedicated copy editor tonight. And no one would begrudge such a thing, given his traffic.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Voters gather to decide Nate Silver's fate
Discussion: @bobbyfinger
Bloomberg:
Pearson Said Exploring Financial Times Sale as CEO Leaves  —  Pearson Plc (PSON) is planning to explore a sale of the Financial Times newspaper, as the company focuses on its faster-growing education business, people with knowledge of the situation said.  —  The company has decided …
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Felix Salmon / Reuters:
The FT in play  —  This will come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but the Financial Times is going up for sale, according to Bloomberg, with an asking price of £1 billion.  (Pearson has denied the story, in less than convincing terms.)  —  That's big number.
Michael de la Merced / DealBook:
F.T. Up for Sale, Report Says, but Pearson Says Not So Fast
Discussion: Talking Biz News
New York Times:
Discussion: Quartz
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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
News orgs innovate with election coverage  —  Tuesday night will be the most interactive election night ever.  —  Millions of Americans won't just be watching results come in, they'll be participating in new ways thanks to news organizations doing just about everything they can think of to enhance live coverage tonight.
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
News Corp. executive sidesteps rumors about plans to acquire more newspapers  —  News Corp. president and chief operating officer Chase Carey sidestepped questions about whether his company is in acquisition mode this afternoon.  —  “Obviously we should look at some things,” said Carey …
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John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Earnings Boosted by Gain
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Karl Rove: Fox News Ohio call ‘premature’  —  Fox News has called Ohio for President Barack Obama, but Karl Rove disagreed with that decision Tuesday night, saying the state is far from settled and the call was “premature.”  —  Fox News's Chris Wallace said the Romney campaign does …
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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Fox News Contesting Its Own Election Call  —  Fox News' Chris Wallace said that Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign is contesting the network's decision to call President Obama's re-election.  Wallace said: “Well I have great respect for our decision desk, and I can see that they're very happy in Chicago …
Discussion: BuzzFeed, @ryan and @kate8
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
If Facebook isn't thinking about buying Tumblr, it should be  —  It might seem a little early to start talking about potential Facebook acquisitions considering the social network just completed its $736-million purchase of Instagram, and its share price is still 40 percent lower than it was when the company went public.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
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Bloomberg:
Fewer Cords Cut but Higher Customer Acquisition Costs for Dish  —  Blames Subscriber Losses on Telecom Rivals, Poor Economy  —  Dish Network, the second-largest U.S. satellite-TV provider, reported a surprise third-quarter loss and revenue that trailed analysts' estimates.
Discussion: Cable Television News
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Reuters:
Dish Network reports loss on litigation costs
Discussion: Associated Press and Deadline.com
Steven Jacobs / Street Fight:
AOL: Patch Remains on Path to Profitability, Expenses Cut 30%  —  Patch saw a 19% year-over-year bump in traffic during September, bringing monthly unique visitors across the property to 11.9 million, according to AOLs second quarter earnings report.  During its Q3 earnings call Tuesday …
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
How video will provide a third act for AOL
Discussion: Beet.TV
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Betaworks Launches Tapestry, A Way To Author Beautiful Smartphone Essays  —  About half a year ago, futurist, novelist and former Twitter media manager Robin Sloan meditated on what the future of storytelling might look like on smartphones.  —  The product of that was 'Fish …
Discussion: AllThingsD
 
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Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
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Discussion: CNET and The Atlantic Online
Dylan Byers / Politico:
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Discussion: CNN
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
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Reuters:
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