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9:15 AM ET, November 6, 2013

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Deadline.com And Nikki Finke Parting Ways — Despite attempts by all to have it go otherwise, Nikki Finke will no longer be leading Deadline Hollywood, and she will not be writing weekend box office or filing stories going forward. This is an emotional and painful parting of the ways for us.

Discussion: Gawker, Variety, @nikkifinke, The Wrap, @nikkifinke, @carr2n, USA Today, @popcornhaas, LA Observed, FishbowlNY, @samontv and @benfritz

Ben Fritz / Speakeasy:
As Nikki Finke Exits Deadline, Dispute Over Her Plan for A New Site Grows

Discussion: @benfritz and @ethanwsj

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Is AOL Finally Making Money From Content? Maybe! — One of the perennially weird things about AOL is that it's a content company that doesn't make money from content: All of its actual profit has come from subscribers to its old Internet-access business, which still has 2.5 million customers,* who pay $20 a month to get online.

Discussion: @pkafka and @dkthomp

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Profits at 21st Century Fox Hampered by TV Investments — Investments in new cable channels were a drag on 21st Century Fox's third-quarter profits, but total revenues still surpassed analysts' expectations. — In its first three months as a separate company, Fox reported on Tuesday …

Discussion: Capital New York, Broadcasting & Cable, The Wrap, Wall Street Journal, 21cf.com and Fox Business

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
AOL's big Adap.tv buy ignites sales, but it whiffs on profit

Discussion: TechCrunch, AdAge, Crain's New York Business, VentureBeat, FishbowlNY, Street Fight, Business Insider and @sai

BBC:

Blogger raises funds to tweet from phone-hacking trial — A blogger who turned to crowdfunding website Indiegogo to raise money to tweet from the UK's phone-hacking trial has hit his target. — Peter Jukes has raised more than £4,000 to pay “his living expenses” for the trial's duration.

Discussion: @peterjukes and @peterjukes

Malin Rising / Associated Press:

Swedish cinemas take aim at gender bias with Bechdel test rating — Movies need to pass test that gauges the active presence of women on screen in bid to promote gender equality — You expect movie ratings to tell you whether a film contains nudity, sex, profanity or violence.

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Telegraph and @weldonwk

Bill Carter / New York Times:

CBS News Defends Its ‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Report — CBS News, under fire from critics who dispute details in a “60 Minutes” report on the Benghazi attacks last year that was broadcast on Oct. 27, aggressively defended the report's accuracy on Tuesday and the account of its main interview subject.

Discussion: @mlcalderone, @ericboehlert, @romenesko, @beychok, @jesslevin, Philly.com and The Huffington Post

Alistair Barr / USA Today:

Amazon cozies up to book stores to sell Kindle devices — Amazon executive says new Amazon Source program will help physical stores be more relevant to customers. But Amazon needs physical store partners too — CONNECT — Amazon.com is turning to some of its natural rivals …

Discussion: Publishers Weekly

Allan Sloan / Fortune:

How being a tax dummy cost The New York Times $60M — A mistake made 20 years ago cost the Times big during the sale of The Boston Globe. — The New York Times Co's (NYT) purchase of The Boston Globe for more than $1 billion twenty years ago has turned out to be among the worst single newspaper acquisitions in history.

Discussion: @antderosa

Joshua Goldman / CNET:

Streamnation expands to streaming, sharing your movie, TV show collections — The service that's built for storing, streaming, and sharing your photos and videos is now looking to become a streaming media hub. — Remember when you used to let friends and family borrow a DVD?

Discussion: AllThingsD, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Engadget, Pocket-lint, The Next Web and The Verge

Paul Elias / Associated Press:

Calif. Supreme Court to consider disgraced journalist Stephen Glass' request for law license — SAN FRANCISCO - The deceit of disgraced former reporter Stephen Glass in the journalism world was so extraordinary that his tale was turned into a critically acclaimed movie, “Shattered Glass.”

Discussion: Associated Press, Big News Network.com and FishbowlNY

Paul Owen / Guardian:

NSA files - David Miranda launches high court challenge - live — Sort by: — 9.56am GMT … Good morning. Here are today's headlines: — • David Miranda, the partner of former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, today launches a high court challenge over the legality …

Discussion: Associated Press, Softpedia News and The Independent

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

NUJ calls for public subsidies to save newspapers from closure — The National Union of Journalists is calling for regional and local newspapers to be given public funding in order to ensure their survival. — A union delegation put the NUJ's case for subsidised papers to Ed Vaizey …

Discussion: HoldTheFrontPage, Carmarthenshire Planning … and National Union of Journalists

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

TV Discovery Startup i.TV Acquires GetGlue In Second-Screen App Mashup — Provo, Utah-based video discovery startup i.TV has acquired GetGlue, we've learned, as consolidation in the market for second-screen or companion TV apps continues. The acquisition, which is expected to be announced soon …

Discussion: Digital TV Europe

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Sunday People launches seven-day Buzzfeed-style website entirely funded by ‘native advertising’ — Trinity Mirror today launched a stand-alone seven-day website for the Sunday People which is entirely funded by ‘native advertising’. — This means that the site will carry no display advertising …

Reporters Without Borders:

Mali - Dim prospects for media freedom in north after French journalists' murder — The murder of Radio France Internationale journalists Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon on the outskirts of Kidal, a town in the Ifoghas massif, on 2 November has highlighted the extent of the threats …

Press Association:

Mirror fails in bid to throw out phone-hacking cases — The High Court has refused to throw out phone-hacking damages claims brought against Mirror Group Newspapers by ex-footballer Garry Flitcroft and Abbie Gibson, former nanny to David and Victoria Beckham.

Discussion: Guardian, Life Style Extra and Interactive Investor

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Yahoo's Mayer in talks with Ryan Seacrest about creating original content — Yahoo's Mayer Now Chit-Chatting With Ryan Seacrest About Content Ideas — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is tearing her way through the content celebrities, it seems. — First, news star Katie Couric.

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Washington Times Ends Rand Paul's Column After Plagiarism — Paul had written hundreds of articles for the paper. — Mark Wilson / Getty Images — The conservative Washington D.C. newspaper The Washington Times announced Tuesday it is ending Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul's column …