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1:25 PM ET, October 21, 2014

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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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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?
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 …
Discussion: Guardian, @jeffjarvis and @mathewi
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.
Jethro Nededog / The Wrap:
Jill Abramson Teaming With Steve Brill on Startup Venture  —  Jill Abramson is planning a startup with journalism entrepreneur Steven Brill.  —  The fired New York Times editor revealed her plans during an interview on NPR's “WBUR Live,” according to the show's tweets.
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.
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.
Discussion: The Times-Picayune
Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Nielsen, Adobe to measure online TV across multiple devices  —  Nielsen and Adobe Systems Inc announced an alliance on Tuesday that aims to measure the viewership of digital video across all Internet-connected platforms including TVs, smart phones and tablets as the television ecosystem undergoes dramatic change.
TechCrunch:
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 …
Edvard Pettersson / Bloomberg:
Dish Wins Tentative Ruling Over Fox in AutoHop Litigation  —  Dish Network Corp. (DISH)'s AutoHop service, which lets subscribers watch recorded primetime television programs with the advertisements taken out, doesn't infringe Fox Broadcasting Co.'s copyrights, a federal judge said in a tentative decision.
Discussion: Techdirt
Angus Foster / BBC:
BBC News website launches Australia page  —  Readers will notice some changes on the BBC News website regarding Australia.  —  The biggest difference is that we are launching a new Australia page which will be dedicated to giving you more news and features about Australia …
Discussion: @bbcnews
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Under VP of business dev Erin Pettigrew, e-commerce now accounts for 10% of Gawker's revenue  —  This is the most important person at Gawker you've never heard of  —  Nick Denton, the co-founder of Gawker Media, is known for his penchant for measuring the impact of his blog network.
Discussion: @skidder, @edwkim and @michaeldavis777
 
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Anna Fazackerley / Guardian:
UK universities and student unions clamp down on unfavorable reporting in student newspapers
Discussion: @charliebeckett
Shelly Walia / Quartz:
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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Caitlin Dewey / Washington Post:
Gamergate supporters mobilize to persuade advertisers to pull ads from critical sites, most recently Gawker Media
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Opinion: Why it's so disappointing that j-schools are panicking over Ebola
Tambay A. Obenson / Indiewire:
Sundance Institute expands artist development to eight cities with $1M in Knight funding
Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:
Amazon closes multi-year digital and print deal with CBS's Simon & Schuster, one of Big Five publishers
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

 
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