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4:40 PM ET, November 11, 2013

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Jessi Hempel / Fortune:
Vox Media acquires Curbed Network for $20-30M  —  Vox Media has taken on sports, technology and video games.  Now it's getting into real estate.  —  FORTUNE — Fortune has learned that ambitious digital media startup Vox Media will acquire Curbed Network, a saucy trio of urban lifestyle …
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Felix Salmon:
Content economics, part 4: scale  —  The big blog news of the day is that Vox Media has acquired Curbed Network.  Why is the news so big?  Because, until now, if a major blog property was sold, it was always sold to some media giant — more often than not, AOL — which wanted …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘CJR’ preparing to name new editor-in-chief  —  Columbia Journalism Review, the media-industry bible whose top masthead slot has been vacant since the spring, is expected to announce a new editor-in-chief soon.  —  Sources familiar with the process told Capital that the search had recently focused …
Discussion: @jpodhoretz
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ Benghazi Apology Leaves Key Questions Unanswered  —  NEW YORK — “60 Minutes” correspondent Lara Logan apologized Sunday night for her discredited Oct. 27 report featuring an “eyewitness” account of the Benghazi terrorist attack that proved to be false.  —  But “60 Minutes” doesn't need to apologize anymore.
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New York Times:
‘60 Minutes’ Airs Apology on Benghazi
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Yahoo Video Head Erin McPherson Heads for Maker Studios, the Giant YouTube Network  —  Erin McPherson, the Yahoo executive who has been in charge of the portal's video efforts, is leaving the company.  She's going to Maker Studios, the giant YouTube network that's trying to build a business outside of the world's biggest video site.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nathan Richardson out at AOL  —  Nathan Richardson, the Internet executive who co-founded Sen. Cory Booker's troubled tech start-up Waywire, is stepping down as president of AOL Live just two-and-a-half months after getting the job, POLITICO has learned.  —  Richardson joined AOL in late August …
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Home Sec suggests BBC must be curbed to protect local newspapers  —  Home Secretary Theresa May suggested today that the BBC may need to curb its activities at a local level to protect local newspapers.  —  She said: “If the BBC can provide all the locally-significant news, what reason is left for local people to buy a newspaper?
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Flipboard Debuts Catalogs, Shoppable Magazines Built By Brand Advertisers, Celeb Curators & Users, Too  —  Flipboard is inching into Pinterest's territory today with the launch of a new “shopping” category which allows e-commerce brands turn their online stores into flippable, shoppable catalogs …
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Microsoft revamps Bing Music Video Search with inline results from YouTube, Vimeo, MTV, Artist Direct, and more  —  Microsoft today launched a completely revamped version of Bing's search section for music videos.  The company says it has been built from the ground up to simplify exploring …
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
John Pleasants Resigns as Co-President of Disney Interactive  —  LOS ANGELES — John Pleasants, the hard-charging co-president of Disney's video game and web division, announced his resignation on Monday, effective immediately, although he will continue on as a consultant for a period.
Discussion: Polygon
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Pay Wall Operator Tinypass Grows, Raises $3 Million  —  Tinypass, a startup that's trying to help online publishers make money by selling their stuff on the Web, has new money of its own.  —  The New York-based company has raised a $3 million round led by Cascabel Management …
Benjamin Wallace / New York Magazine:
Who Killed Michael Hastings?  —  Reflexively distrustful, eager to make powerful enemies, the young journalist whose Mercedes exploded in Los Angeles one night couldn't possibly have died accidentally, could he?  —  At the end of his life, Michael Hastings, like many of the progressive journalists …
 
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Brendan Nyhan / Columbia Journalism Review:
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Co. revenue slips in 3Q, cites low radio, TV ratings for Cubs, Sox
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