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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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TechCrunch, Business Insider, AdAge, Crain's New York Business, VentureBeat, Street Fight, FishbowlNY and @sai
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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.
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Forbes, New York Times, TechCrunch, USA Today and Poynter
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 …
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@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.
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FishbowlNY, Talking Biz News, @felixsalmon and @aarongell
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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@ali_gharib, @davidkenner, @mlcalderone, @peterbeinart, @haaretzcom and Mondoweiss
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Peter Beinart leaving Daily Beast for The Atlantic Media Company
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FishbowlDC, @dylanbyers, Haaretz, @chemishalev, Mondoweiss and @lahoare
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.
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Politico, New York Times, The Huffington Post and TVNewser
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 …
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Daily Mail, Telegraph, Scotsman, ITV News and broadcastnow.co.uk
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 …
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@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 …
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