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7:50 PM ET, October 21, 2014

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Bloomberg hires Business Insider Executive Editor Joe Weisenthal to edit new site focusing on markets and economics, host TV show  —  Bloomberg Drops Huge Cash, Poaches Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal To Host New TV Show  —  Joe Weisenthal, executive editor of Business Insider, is leaving the company.
Rebecca Carroll / The New Republic:
I'm a Black Journalist.  I'm Quitting Because I'm Tired of Newsroom Racism.  —  My first job in media was as a television producer.  I was 28 years old, eager and brimming with ideas, some of which I'm sure were good and others of which I'm sure were not.  Not long after starting the job …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Guardian touts ComScore win over New York Times  —  The Guardian says it has for the first time surpassed The New York Times on a prominent web-measurement firm's Internet traffic ranking.  —  For the month of September, roughly 42.6 million people over the age of 15 accessed …
D.B. Hebbard / Talking New Media:
Postmedia's Montreal Gazette launches Apple Newsstand afternoon tablet magazine  —  New iPad-only magazine will appear every Monday through Friday at 6pm, with subscriptions free for readers of the English language newspaper  —  The Montreal Gazette, the English language newspaper owned …
Robert Feder:
Stop the presses: Tribune buying Sun-Times suburban newspapers  —  In a blockbuster deal that could change the Chicago journalism landscape, the parent company of the Sun-Times plans to sell all of its suburban daily and weekly newspapers to Tribune Publishing, sources said.
Slate:
Librarians Are Dedicated to User Privacy.  The Tech They Have to Use Is Not.  —  Adobe has made it extremely easy for unwanted eyes to read over the shoulders of library patrons.  Earlier this month reports surfaced about how Adobe's Digital Editions e-book software collects and transmits information about readers in plain text.
Discussion: @kansasalps and @queenofrats
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Ebola Deeply mixes curation and reporting, expanding Lara Setrakian's pop-up news site model  —  Ebola Deeply builds on the lessons of single-subject news sites: A news operation with an expiration date  —  A contagious disease outbreak seems like a good time for some explanatory journalism.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Rival news outlets team up to build open-source tools to analyze California campaign data  —  Light everywhere: The California Civic Data Coalition wants to make public datasets easier to crunch  —  When Meg Whitman ran for governor of California in 2010, she donated $144 million of her own money to her campaign.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Pew Study: Liberals and conservatives inhabit different media worlds with little overlap in trusted news sources  —  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?
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Beats In Q3 With Revenue Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.52X  —  With all eyes on what Yahoo will do with its $5 billion+ in Alibaba cash, Yahoo today reported its Q3 earnings after the close of trading, with sales of $1.09 billion excluding traffic acquisition costs and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.52.
Publishers Weekly:
E-book publisher Atavist Books to close by end of the year  —  Atavist Books to Close  —  Atavist Books, a multiplatform book company formed by media mogul Barry Diller, chairman of the IAC/InterActiveCorp, film producer Scott Rudin, and former Picador publisher Frances Coady in September 2012, will shutter at the end of the year.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Times-Picayune will close New Orleans print facility, print in Alabama  —  The Times-Picayune will close its New Orleans print facility and print in Alabama, it announced Tuesday.  About 100 production jobs will be lost, but none from the newsroom, the Advance-owned paper says.
 
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Associated Press:
Egyptian court sets Jan. 1, 2015, appeal date for jailed Al Jazeera journalists
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Daniel Miller / Los Angeles Times:
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Inside The Spotify - Echo Nest Skunkworks
Discussion: PandoDaily, BGR and BetaNews
Angus Foster / BBC:
BBC News website launches Australia page
Discussion: @bbcnews
Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg:
Dish Wins Tentative Ruling Over Fox in AutoHop Litigation
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Anna Fazackerley / Guardian:
UK universities and student unions clamp down on unfavorable reporting in student newspapers
Discussion: @charliebeckett
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A Bollywood-backed Twitter campaign saved the Mumbai Film Festival—but crushed its spirit
Todd Spangler / Variety:
MediaHound raises $4.5M from UTA and others, launches invitation-only media discovery app
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Jill Abramson Teaming With Steve Brill on Startup Venture