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12:05 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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:
Lee Enterprises Readies For Mobile Future  —  At newspaper publisher Lee Enterprises, the future is mobile, according to James Green, the company's VP of digital.  Green sees the need for Lee to monetize mobile, where 40% of its readers are now consuming content.
Discussion: @niemanlab
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Twitter apologizes for blocking newspaper's URLs  —  Twitter's Andrew Fitzgerald apologized Monday to Philadelphia City Paper reporter Daniel Denvir for an episode last week when Twitter wasn't allowing users to access the paper's stories through tweeted URLs, Denvir told Poynter in a phone call.
Discussion: AppNewser and @kellymcb
 
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