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Times brass tout native, digital subs as bright spots — Digital advertising growth and digital subscriptions got lots of love from New York Times executives as the company reported its third-quarter earnings results Thursday morning. — On a conference call with Wall Street analysts …

Discussion: AdAge

New York Times:

NYT Q3 results: $364.7M revenue, 1.3% increased circulation, operating loss of $9M, digital subs up 20% year-on-year — The New York Times Company Reports 2014 Third-Quarter Results — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)— The New York Times Company (NYSE:NYT) announced today a third-quarter 2014 …

Discussion: New York Times, Poynter, Associated Press, NetNewsCheck Latest, Wall Street Journal, @byheatherlong, @whatthebit, @joycelaunews, Forbes and Capital New York

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

Flipboard debuts a big redesign and The Daily Edition, a morning news section — With a fresh coat of paint and a handful of new features, Flipboard targets competitors big and small — Finding the right news to read is hard. That's why hundreds of companies have jumped …

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Vice Media Pacts with Rogers for $100 Million Canadian Studio Venture — Vice Media and Canada's Rogers Communications, a media and communications conglom, have formed a $100 million joint venture to create a multimedia production studio dedicated to original programming from the Great White North.

Discussion: Globe and Mail, AdAge, Media & Entertainment, Forbes and City A.M.

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

The news business should refuse Facebook's deal — The lure of online ad revenue isn't worth surrendering news judgment to Zuckerberg's algorithm — Facebook wants publishers to become its junior partners, embedding their news and content into Facebook itself (at least on mobile) …

Discussion: @kiragoldenberg, Real Lawyers Have Blogs and Digiday

Joan E. Solsman / CNET:

Pandora, Spotify top ranking of music apps — so where's Beats? — What are the first apps that pop into your head when you think music? If Apple's Beats Music is among them, you may be scanning farther down new App Annie standings than you might expect.

Discussion: App Advice, Music Ally, VentureBeat, App Advice and MacRumors

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Newsquest cuts 20 jobs at Oxford as it switches production to south Wales — In yet another round of cutbacks, Newsquest is set to make 20 staff redundant at its Oxfordshire titles. The official announcement was made this afternoon. — It is part of the group's strategy of transferring …

Kate Abnett / The Business of Fashion:

Telegraph Lays Off 55 Employees, Including Senior Fashion Staff — LONDON, United Kingdom — BoF has learned that The Telegraph is laying off 55 people from the newspaper's staff, as part of a round of cuts being made today and tomorrow. The redundancies will heavily impact …

Discussion: @sambaker

Ramin Setoodeh / Variety:

ABC News Takes Over ‘The View’ As Ratings Dwindle (Exclusive) — Incoming president Ben Sherwood steers franchise to division's non-fiction arm — For 18 seasons, “The View” has been one of the crown jewels of ABC Daytime programming block. But in a significant restructuring …

Discussion: TVNewser, Capital New York and Broadcasting & Cable

Colin Dwyer / NPR:

Book News: Young Adult And Kids' Lit Boost E-Book Revenue — The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. — E-book sales are standing on the shoulders not of giants, but of a much smaller set. According to new statistics released by the Association …

Discussion: Bookseller News

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

300 police media leak probes in five years - forces refuse to reveal how many involved RIPA spying — Police forces across the UK conducted 302 media leak investigations in a five-year period - many of which may have involved use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to secretly view journalists' phone records.

Discussion: @gazthejourno, @neilwallis1 and @ryankisiel

Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

Google Play Books' new reading mode lets you browse and skim nonfiction ebooks faster — It's not particularly convenient to read cookbooks, travel guides and other reference works as ebooks. Google is hoping to change that. — The digital format works a lot better for some kinds of books than others.

Discussion: TechCrunch and VentureBeat