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6:35 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.
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.
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
How news orgs plan digital coverage of midterms  —  Tuesday's midterm elections will determine which party controls of the U.S. Senate.  There are also 36 gubernatorial races, and the biennial U.S. House elections.  Here's how some news organizations plan digital coverage of the races.
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.
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.
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 …
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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
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
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.
Garett Sloane / Adweek:
Ads Are Coming to the Comments Section of Publisher Sites  —  Disqus' sponsored messages will be targeted to what you say  —  You can tell a lot about people by their online comments, and that's why Disqus believes it could be sitting on an advertising goldmine.
Toronto Star:
Students were warned away from Q internships over concerns about Jian Ghomeshi's behaviour  —  Students were warned away from Q internships: professor  —  University of Western Ontario journalism students heard interning at Q was “off limits” over concerns about host Jian Ghomeshi's “inappropriate” behaviour.
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:
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Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat:
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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:
Cleveland Plain Dealer removes unflattering video of candidate it endorsed, refuses to comment
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
CNET's print magazine to debut on Monday, part of an effort to become a multiplatform brand