Mediagazer: Blogging network BlogHer acquired by digital media company SheKnows for $30-40M (Michael Sebastian/AdAge)

4:50 PM ET, November 3, 2014

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Lynn Neary / NPR:

Tom Magliozzi, Popular Co-Host Of NPR's ‘Car Talk,’ Dies At 77 — Tom Magliozzi, one of public radio's most popular personalities, died on Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 77 years old. — Tom and his brother, Ray, became famous as “Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers” on the weekly NPR show Car Talk.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

ESPN's FiveThirtyEight Launches Studio for 2014 Midterm Elections — Nate Silver and other FiveThirtyEight politics wonks will be holed up in a new, dedicated studio set located within ESPN's New York newsroom on election night to feed updates both online and on-air to ABC News.

Discussion: Financial Times, @danielsilver11 and ESPN MediaZone

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
How news orgs plan digital coverage of midterms

Discussion: Capital New York and New York Times

Charles V Bagli / New York Times:

Condé Nast Moves Into the World Trade Center as Lower Manhattan Is Remade — For two days last weekend, moving trucks shuttled a total of 2,800 orange crates crammed with files, photographs and books from a Times Square office tower downtown to the tallest skyscraper in North America, 1 World Trade Center.

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David Carr / New York Times:

Texas Tribune publishing model shows there is room for corporate money in news — Journalism, Independent and Not — Last week, I read an interesting article about how smart hardware can allow users to browse anonymously and thus foil snooping from governments.

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @cryptomeorg and @buster_espn

Andrew Rice / New York Magazine:

How the Snowden Leaks Gave Pierre Omidyar a Cause — and an Enemy — The eBay founder was a mild-mannered Obama supporter looking for a way to spend his time and fortune. The Snowden leaks gave him a cause—and an enemy. — Illustrations by Matthew Woodson

Madeleine Heffernan / Business Review Weekly:

'We're effectively a start-up': Guardian Australia reports $7.5m loss — News website Guardian Australia has posted a $7.5 million full-year loss, after a small profit in 2013, but says revenues have diversified and “increased significantly”. — Guardian Australia is backed …

Discussion: @bencubby and @rosepowell

Stuart Elliott / New York Times:

CNET's print magazine to debut on Monday, part of an effort to become a multiplatform brand — Technology Website CNET to Jump From Screen to Page — A LEADING technology website, CNET, is expanding into a platform that its users praise as portable, accessible and affordable.

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Publicis Snaps Up Sapient For $3.7B To Build A Digital Media Powerhouse — Global ad giant Publicis is spending big to position itself as the top agency for brands riding the digital wave, after it announced (PDF) a deal that sees it acquire Sapient for $3.7 billion.

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Guardian:

Taylor Swift removes her back catalogue from Spotify, leaves it for now on Rdio, Beats Music — Taylor Swift v Spotify: back catalogue removed from streaming services — Taylor Swift withheld her new album 1989 from music streaming services, and has now removed all her albums from Spotify

Erik Larson / Bloomberg:

LightSquared Bankruptcy Plan Would Put Ergen in Control — LightSquared Inc. creditors reached an agreement to reorganize the wireless broadband company that, if approved, would put Dish Network Corp.'s Charles Ergen in control, ending his months-long bankruptcy-court battle with Philip Falcone.

Discussion: Reuters and Wall Street Journal

Michael Sebastian / AdAge:

Tribune Publishing Hires Michael Rooney as Chief Revenue Officer — Former Wall Street Journal and ESPN Exec to Lead Sales and Marketing — TV and Technology — Tribune Publishing, which owns 10 daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune …

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, Yahoo! Finance and @raju