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12:40 PM ET, November 6, 2014

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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
CBS News Introduces Digital Streaming Service  —  How to Make Credible Green Marketing Claims … CBS News is the latest TV programmer to join the over-the-top arena.  —  After months of discussion, the 27-hour, digital-only service, dubbed CBSN, goes live on Thursday, the company announced.
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The Australian Financial Review:
Discovery Communications and Foxtel weighing joint bid for Australia's Ten Network  —  Foxtel weighs up Ten Network investment  —  US cable television giant Discovery Communications is weighing up a joint bid for the struggling Ten ­Network Holdings with local pay TV ­monopoly Foxtel.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
AOL Q3 Beats The Street On Sales Of $626.8M, Falls Short On Income Of $121.8M  —  AOL (owner of TechCrunch) this morning reported its earnings for Q3, a mixed result that saw it beating estimates on sales but only matching on earnings, and missing on operating income (OIBDA) …
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Weather Channel Cuts 40 More Staffers  —  First on TVNewser: Pink slips are being handed out this morning at the Weather Channel.  As many as 40 staffers are being cut from the ranks of senior producers, show producers, and weather producers, insiders tell TVNewser.
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Former Sunday Mirror investigations editor pleads guilty to phone hacking  —  Graham Johnson hacked a phone to investigate whether a soap star was having an affair with a gangster, court hears  —  Graham Johnson, former investigations editor of the Sunday Mirror, has pleaded guilty to phone-hacking charges …
Discussion: @dansabbagh and @greenslader
Justin Bachman / Businessweek:
Before HBO Starts Streaming, Time Warner Wants to Make Big Cable Happy  —  From the moment Time Warner (TWX) executives announced that HBO will be available outside the traditional pay-TV ecosystem, the company has been emphasizing a story of huge, untapped potential.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Tribune Media Leads $2.75 Million Round in Digital-Video News Startup Watchup  —  Newspaper publisher McClatchy also invests in startup, whose service delivers personalized Internet newscasts  —  Watchup, a startup that delivers personalized newscasts to Internet-video devices, has raised $2.75 million in funding led by Tribune Media.
Robert Andrews / Beet.TV:
Wall Street Journal & BBC News Using TouchCast Interactive Video  —  TouchCast, the interactive video platform co-founded by former TechCrunch editor Erick Schonfeld, has been gaining traction in use by the BBC.  Now it is announcing The Wall Street Journal will also use the innovative new service.
Thanks:@beet_tv
Gavin J. Blair / Hollywood Reporter:
Viki Adds Japanese Content in Drive to Become a Top Global Channel (Exclusive)  —  Japanese majors Toho and Fuji TV among new content providers for crowd-subtitled multilingual video platform  —  Crowd-subtitled, multilingual video platform Viki has signed multi-territory content deals …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Icelandic journalists face jail for making a mistake  —  Lawyers acting for an Icelandic interior ministry official are asking for two journalists to be jailed because they mistakenly named her as a target in a police investigation.  —  In June, the journalists - Jón Bjarki Magnússon …
Press Gazette:
News Corp feared corporate charge over payments could ‘kill company’ and risk 46,000 jobs  —  A corporate charge against News International over making payments to public officials could have destroyed the company, a court heard yesterday.  —  The parent company of the Sun and the News of the World …
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
The Upshot and the Midterms: Big Test, Good Grade and Lessons Learned  —  Two years ago - during the coverage of the 2012 presidential race - the relationship between Nate Silver's Five Thirty Eight (then based at The Times) and the paper's political team seemed tense.
Discussion: The Week
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Fall of the Banner Ad: The Monster That Swallowed the Web  —  Twenty years ago last month, a team of well-meaning designers, coders and magazine publishers inadvertently unleashed on an unsuspecting world one of the most misguided and destructive technologies of the Internet age: the web banner ad.
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Q3 results at big US media companies show decline in TV ad spending as marketers shift to digital
Abhirup Roy / Reuters:
DirecTV reports 6.3% rise in Q3 revenue to $8.37B on higher subscription fees
Discussion: Associated Press
Karoun Demirijian / Washington Post:
Russian advertising ban on paid cable and satellite channels threatens independents
Associated Press:
Signs of torture on body of slain Myanmar reporter
Discussion: TIME and Poynter
Erin Polgreen / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why in-house innovation is a great plan for legacy outlets
Discussion: @lpolgreen
Carmel DeAmicis / Gigaom:
Why Twitter needs to court its Vine stars, or risk losing them to Hollywood (and Facebook)
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Krati Garg / The Citizen:
Protecting the messengers: news groups rethink safety for correspondents on the frontline . . . and at home
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Music competition app Chosen, founded by ex-Beats Music CEO, raises $5M led by DCM, expected to launch Q1 2015
Ryan Mac / Forbes:
GoPro Adds New Media Executive To Continue Content Push
Brett Zongker / Associated Press:
Newseum CEO James Duff departs; says fundraising is on rise following struggles