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4:55 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
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.
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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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Col Allan is gone, again, from the ‘Post’ newsroom  —  Is Col Allan on another hiatus?  —  The feisty New York Post editor-in-chief raised eyebrows when he took a temporary assignment at News Corp's struggling Australian papers over the summer.  —  Many Post journalists took the trip …
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.
Jeff Baumgartner / Broadcasting & Cable:
Charter Launches TV Streaming App  —  iOS app starts with in-home access, but will eventually expand out-of-home and beyond as distribution rights evolve  —  Charter Communications launched its first mobile TV streaming app on Tuesday, offering a lineup of more than 100 live TV channels in the home …
Jason Deans / Guardian:
Former BBC boss defends £1m payoff  —  Mark Byford says terms of 2011 redundancy settlement were ‘fair and right’ and there was no greed on his part  —  The former senior BBC executive at the centre of the row over executive payoffs has said he was not greedy and will not be paying …
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
The NYT paywall don't get no respect  —  I wrote Friday about a landmark for The New York Times: Its paywall revenue has overtaken its digital ad revenue—Just two years after the paper bucked conventional wisdom and asked readers to pay.  —  GigaOm's Mathew Ingram spins that news as negatively as possible …
Discussion: @ryanchittum, @10000words and @abeaujon
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.
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Cox plans to launch internet TV service  —  After running a trial in Southern California earlier this summer, Cox is now working on a commercial pay TV offering that would stream live TV over the internet, according to a report by LightReading.  Details on that upcoming service are still scarce …
Discussion: Light Reading
 
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