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9:55 PM ET, October 15, 2014

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
HBO will offer a stand-alone streaming service in 2015  —  HBO Says It's Going to Start Selling on the Web Next Year  —  HBO says it's finally ready: Sometime in the next year the pay TV service will be selling a Web-only offering.  —  HBO CEO Richard Plepler, speaking …
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
HBO's taking on Netflix like never before.  But now they'll share the same headaches, too.  —  HBO is finally caving to consumer pressure and will be offering its streaming service, HBO Go, as a standalone subscription next year.  This is a huge deal for cord-cutters, people …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Q3 earnings: profit of $59.3M on revenue of $1.41B; shares fall over 25% on lower-than-projected subscriber numbers  —  Netflix Blames Missed Sub-Growth Targets on Price Increase, as Stock Gets Hammered  —  Shares fall 25% in after-hours trading on lower-than-expected subscriber additions
Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
Time Warner's Vision: How Media Giant Wants to Do More With Less  —  It was an extraordinary day for Time Warner.  Even as high profile cancellations were unfolding at the CNN news division, CEO Jeff Bewkes was out in public promising shareholders he would double earnings at the media giant in the next couple of years.
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New York Times:
Bill Simmons's Return Sets Intrigue in Motion at ESPN  —  A decade ago, Howard Stern got tired of fighting with the Federal Communications Commission over its decency standards and quit Viacom for satellite radio.  —  More recently, Glenn Beck clashed with his bosses at Fox News and started his own Internet channel, Glenn Beck TV.
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Hong Kong outlet wins at World Digital Media Awards  —  Apple Daily wins award for best mobile service as Norway's VG picks up two awards, Dagbladet, Guardian and BBC also win  —  A Hong Kong news organisation was commended for its digital work at the inaugural World Digital Media Awards …
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Reuters:
China asks foreign media to report Hong Kong unrest “objectively”
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How a small experiment at The Washington Post revolutionized its content management platform  —  About three years ago, The Washington Post embarked on a complete overhaul of the way it creates and publishes content online.  —  The project was ambitious.  The Post — which then relied primarily …
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Judge Is Skeptical About Aereo's New Bid for Survival  —  The judge asks Aereo's lawyer, “How many bites at the apple does one get?”  —  On Wednesday, New York federal judge Alison Nathan considered a preliminary injunction against Aereo, the controversial tech service that upon launching …
Discussion: FierceCable
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Nexus Player: first Android TV device, on sale Nov. 3 for $99, gaming controller for $39  —  Nexus Player is Google's first Android TV device  —  Google tries to take over your living room, again  —  The first device running Google's new Android TV platform with be the Nexus Player, a set-top streaming box made by Google and Asus.
Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:
BuzzFeed to build ‘new formats’ team in the UK  —  The team will include developers, designers and writers who will look at new ways to present stories and experiment with games and new tools  —  BuzzFeed is setting up a new development team based in London to look at new ways of telling stories and engaging audiences.
Discussion: @lukelewis
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
ECHR finds Polish courts breached freedom of expression rights of journalists and their paper  —  Human rights judges find for journalists in press freedom case  —  Two Polish journalists and their newspaper have secured a significant press freedom judgment at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Journalism Center on Children and Families will shut down  —  JCCF  —  The Journalism Center on Children and Families is closing at the end of the year due to lack of financial support from its primary funder, the Annie E. Casey Foundation.  —  Julie Drizin, the center's director …
Marc Schneider / Billboard:
Neil Young Readies Pono Store, Says Partnerships With Lincoln, Tesla in Works  —  Neil Young speaks about ‘Pono’, his new audio system being financed through Kickstarter at the Austin Convention Center during South By Southest on March 11, 2014 in Austin, Texas.  —  Gary Miller/FilmMagic
Discussion: Gigaom
John McDuling / Quartz:
YouTube is making itself increasingly indispensable to the music industry  —  If there were any lingering doubt about YouTube's status as the biggest streaming music service on the planet, then this fact should dispel it: The Google-owned site has now paid out more than $1 billion in royalties …
Knight Foundation:
18 news and information ideas receive Knight Prototype Fund support  —  Knight Prototype Fund winners met this summer to share ideas in Pittsburgh.  Photo: Michael Bolden.  —  Eighteen projects will each receive $35,000 in funding and time to test their media and information ideas …
Discussion: Nieman Lab
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Martha Stewart's Magazines to Outsource Business Side to Meredith  —  Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, which has been struggling to make its award-winning magazines profitable, is outsourcing its advertising, circulation and printing operations to the Meredith Corporation …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
White House pool reporters test own news distribution system  —  White House journalists are creating an alternative system for distributing their media “pool” reports in response to the Obama administration's involvement in approving and disapproving certain content in official reports.
Discussion: Mediaite
Todd Spangler / Variety:
NBC Sports Digital Launches ‘SportsWorld,’ Its Version of ESPN's Grantland  —  NBC Sports Digital has launched SportsWorld, a microsite within NBCSports.com dedicated to long-form storytelling stocked with stories, essays, videos and documentary films — an attempt to engage sports fans beyond …
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Fortune.com's traffic up 27.5 percent since launch  —  Fortune.com, which launched in June after nearly a decade of the business magazine placing its content on CNNMoney.com, has seen its traffic increase by more than 25 percent in its first four months online.
Discussion: @heather_muse
 
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Colin Mann / Advanced Television:
Bloomberg launches Media Source content platform
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