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12:05 PM ET, October 30, 2014

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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 …
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 …
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) …
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.
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
Mayer Nissim / Digital Spy:
WWE Network drops 6-month commitment, November free for new subscribers  —  The WWE Network has dropped the need for a six-month commitment.  —  The over-the-top subscription-based video-streaming service has been available in the US and much of the world for $9.99, subject to a six-month rolling contract.
Liam Andrew / Nieman Lab:
Controlled chaos: As journalism and documentary film converge in digital, what lessons can they share?  —  Documentary film and journalism are, in many ways, rooted in the same traditions.  Though focus on narrative often differentiates film from traditional journalism …
Discussion: ARTery
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.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Ellen DeGeneres Launches ‘Ellentube’ Video Site, Expanding Beyond YouTube  —  Talk-show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres — who runs one of biggest TV-oriented YouTube channels — has formed a new digital venture and is launching Ellentube, a site and app that will host exclusive video from her daytime program.
Simon Zekaria / Wall Street Journal:
BT to include Netflix on YouView Internet TV service  —  BT Strikes Netflix Deal as Profit Falls  —  BT Group PLC said it struck a partnership deal with Netflix to add the U.S. entertainment streaming platform to its growing television service, even as the British telecom incumbent Thursday posted lower quarterly profit and revenue.
Anya George Tharakan / Reuters:
Time Warner Cable lost 184K video customers in Q3, revenue rose to $5.71B  —  Time Warner Cable loses more video customers in latest quarter  —  (Reuters) - Time Warner Cable Inc (TWC.N), the No. 2 U.S. cable TV operator, lost more video subscribers than analysts had expected in the third quarter …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
NPR to open Seoul bureau  —  National Public Radio Wednesday revealed plans to open a bureau in Seoul, South Korea, naming culture and technology reporter Elise Hu its Asia correspondent there.  —  In addition to being at the heart of technological and economic force, the bureau …
 
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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:
MPAA and National Association of Theatre Owners Ban Google Glass, Other Wearable Tech
Berivan Orucoglu / Foreign Policy:
Turkish government wants Twitter to remove current, future accounts for Today's Zaman editor
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