Mediagazer: The Texas Tribune is 5 years old and sustainable. Now what? (Justin Ellis/Nieman Lab)

8:30 PM ET, November 3, 2014

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Lynn Neary / NPR:

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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.

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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.

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:

The Texas Tribune is 5 years old and sustainable. Now what? — The newsroom of The Texas Tribune is buzzing in the waning days of the 2014 election. Covering political contests takes a kind of muscle memory, something the nonprofit news site has accumulated since it first appeared in 2009 …

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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.

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

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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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

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Garett Sloane / Adweek:

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Peter Preston / Guardian:

In the digital age, Fleet Street's new mantra is better together — Traditionally rival titles are creating unexpected alliances — hink harmony, reconciliation and love right along Fleet Street. Reach for a late entry form in the Vladimir Putin Peace Prize stakes.