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12:35 PM ET, November 5, 2013

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Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
AOL's big Adap.tv buy ignites sales, but it whiffs on profit  —  If you ask AOL, the third quarter was all about revenue, revenue, revenue — never mind that big miss on profit.  In the latest three-month period, the online media company grew advertising dollars at double the rate it did the quarter before …
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Reuters:
AOL ad sales rise, but Patch weighs on profit  —  (Reuters) - AOL Inc reported higher-than-expected third-quarter revenue on increased advertising sales, but earnings fell sharply because of challenges at its network of community news websites known as Patch.
David Zax / Fast Company:
An Article Has A Lifespan Of 37 Days, And Other Findings From Pocket  —  Spend enough time talking to Nate Weiner, and you begin to realize he has a unique vantage point on web publishing.  Whereas we might visit a given site like the New York Times and take a note of what's most popular or shared …
Discussion: @zimbalist and Beyond Search, Thanks:@steverubel
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC News, agreeing to pay for sky-diving footage, criticized for ‘checkbook journalism’  —  In a second episode of apparent “checkbook journalism” in a week, NBC News has locked up exclusive interviews and amateur footage of an aerial accident with a six-figure fee to a group of sky divers …
Peter Beinart / Open Zion:
Why Open Zion is Closing  —  Open Zion will be closing at the end of the year.  In order to explain, I need to start at the beginning.  —  For most of my professional career, I didn't write much about Israel.  Partly, it's because I didn't know what I thought.  Partly, it's because I didn't want to know what I thought.
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Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:
Business Insider brings in Aaron Gell to edit long-form features  —  Aaron Gell, former interim Editor at The New York Observer and editorial director at The Upswing, has been hired at Business Insider to lead an effort to bring magazine-style features to the site, Capital has learned.  He starts Nov. 18.
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
HLN Preparing Significant Layoffs and Show Cancellations (UPDATED)  —  Mediaite has learned from reliable sources that CNN's sister network HLN is preparing for a significant amount of staff layoffs and show cancellations.  —  According to our sources, much of the network's dayside programming …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
For WorldPost launch, Huffington Post hires foreign correspondents in Middle East, China  —  Over the past few years, The Huffington Post has been laying down cross-continental roots with its growing stable of international editions designed to scale the brand from London to Tokyo to Maghreb.
Michael O'Connell / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: CNN Suffers Worst Week Under Jeff Zucker  —  Dragged down by its lowest-rated weeknight since going against the Olympics in 2012, the primetime block pulls in lows in total viewers and the key demo.  —  CNN's bad night ended up being part of a very bad week.
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
DirecTV Third-Quarter Earnings Rise, U.S. Sub Growth Accelerates  —  UPDATED: The CBS-Time Warner Cable carriage dispute “undoubtedly benefited” the satellite TV company, led by CEO Mike White, says one analyst.  —  DirecTV added 139,000 U.S. subscribers in the third quarter …
Reuters:
Murdoch paper had missing girl's voicemail recordings, court hears  —  A senior executive from Rupert Murdoch's News of the World told British police hunting for a missing schoolgirl in 2002 that journalists on his paper had recordings of voicemail messages taken from her phone, London's phone-hacking trial was told on Tuesday.
 
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