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1:20 AM ET, October 21, 2014

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Media habits of liberals, conservatives: ‘different worlds’  —  Ever wonder why your avowed-conservative brother and fervently-liberal aunt can't even seem to agree on the facts?  —  It's because “when it comes to getting news about politics and government, liberals and conservatives inhabit …
Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:
Amazon closes multi-year digital and print deal with CBS's Simon & Schuster, one of Big Five publishers  —  Amazon Closes Multi-Year Deal With Simon & Schuster, The Other Big Five Publisher It Was In E-Book Pricing Negotiations With  —  Amazon has inked a multi-year deal with Simon & Schuster …
TechCrunch:
Sources: Yahoo In Talks To Buy Video Ad Platform BrightRoll For Around $700M  —  Yahoo has been building up its video and video advertising content, and we have heard that it may make another key acquisition in the area to further raise its game.  The company is in talks to acquire BrightRoll …
Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Gamergate supporters mobilize to persuade advertisers to pull ads from critical sites, most recently Gawker Media  —  Inside Gamergate's (successful) attack on the media  —  GamerGate has come to represent a lot of different things to a lot of different people.
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
Guardian's reporting on Whisper was ethical even though they had been editorial partners; some journalists' reactions are troubling  —  The ethics of The Guardian's Whisper bombshell  —  It would have been a journalistic lapse for the paper not to have told readers what it had learned
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Opinion: Why it's so disappointing that j-schools are panicking over Ebola  —  In the last week, we've learned that three U.S. universities have canceled invitations to journalists due to fears about Ebola:  — Syracuse University rescinded an invitation to Washington Post photographer Michel du Cille …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
MediaHound raises $4.5M from UTA and others, launches invitation-only media discovery app  —  UTA Invests in Content-Discovery Startup MediaHound  —  Startup raises $4.5 million from UTA and private investors; launched first iPhone app for media discovery
Roger Yu / USA Today:
‘Bleacher Report’ claws toward respectability  —  Dave Finocchio Founder and General Manager of Bleacher Report Martin Klimek, USA TODAY  —  With a piercing article that had sports fans nodding their heads, satirical humor site The Onion had a good laugh in 2012 at the expense of Bleacher Report's quick-turn journalism.
BBC:
Pakistan suspends TV channel ARY News ‘for defamation’  —  Pakistan's authorities have suspended a TV channel supporting opposition politician Imran Khan for 15 days for allegedly defaming the judiciary.  —  ARY News TV was also fined 10m rupees ($97,089; £60,182) by broadcasting regulator Pemra.
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Young Hollywood to Launch Streaming Network With Long-Form Content  —  Young Hollywood is growing up.  —  The 7-year-old company is taking its stock in trade — celebrity interviews for young fan s- -and expanding into long-form programming for an over-the-top network to launch in January.
Discussion: @younghollywood and @tracybehr
 
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