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1:45 PM ET, October 13, 2015

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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Playboy magazine, down from a circulation of 5.6M in 1975 to 800K today, will stop publishing images of naked women in March 2016  —  Nudes Are Old News at Playboy  —  Last month, Cory Jones, a top editor at Playboy, went to see its founder Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion.
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Condé Nast buys Pitchfork Media, the company behind the independent music site and quarterly magazine, for an undisclosed sum  —  Condé Nast Buys Pitchfork Media  —  Condé Nast, the publisher that owns magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair, said on Tuesday …
Reuters:
Axel Springer bans adblock users from Bild online  —  Readers of Europe's top-selling tabloid forced pay €2.99 a month or switch off adblocker as German publisher steps up its fight to protect advertising revenue  —  Germany's Axel Springer has banned readers who use adblockers …
Discussion: BetaNews
Jeremy Barr / Politico:
New York Times offers newsstand buyers 24-hour pass for paper's desktop site, mobile apps  —  New York Times to give digital access to newsstand buyers  —  While the act of purchasing a physical newspaper from a newsstand hasn't changed much over the last century, The New York Times is hoping …
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Twitter is laying off 336 employees or about 8% of its global workforce  —  Twitter Is Laying Off 8 Percent Of The Company  —  Twitter is about to cut up to 336 jobs out of its 4,100 employees working for the company around the world.  It represents around 8.2 percent of the company's global workforce.
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
Snapchat ends production of original content for Snap Channel, will rely solely on Discover content partners, 15-member team laid off or reassigned  —  Snapchat To Shut Down Snap Channel, Laying Off Team, Changing Content Plans  —  Underscoring the complicated relationship between …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Meet Peter Barbey, the latest owner to take on the Village Voice  —  If you're The Village Voice, a legendary newspaper that has fallen on hard times, you could do worse than to be sold to a deep-pocketed newspaper lover who's been reading you since the 1970s.  —  Meet Peter D. Barbey.
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Facebook tests dedicated feed for watching videos, video bookmarking, floating videos for in-app multitasking  —  Facebook begins testing a feed just for video  —  Facebook believes its site will be mostly about video within a year or two, and today we're starting to see some big steps in that direction.
Brian Flood / TVNewser:
ESPN resumes DraftKings and FanDuel sponsored segments after banning them for about three days  —  ESPN Resumes Daily Fantasy Sports Sponsored Segments  —  ESPN's ban on segments sponsored by beleaguered daily fantasy sports sites, is over.  —  Last Tuesday, as the two major betting platforms DraftKings …
Discussion: Ad Age and Fortune
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC TV chief Danny Cohen to leave corporation  —  Executive who dealt with the fallout from the Jeremy Clarkson ‘fracas’ is understood to be considering offers from both UK and US companies  —  BBC director of television Danny Cohen is to leave after eight years at the corporation.
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
Bloomberg TV Canada to launch Nov. 16  —  Canada's newest business TV network will have its first broadcast on Nov. 16 as Bloomberg LP flips the switch on a locally-tailored channel.  —  The launch of Bloomberg TV Canada will replace the American-focused Bloomberg Television on many TV packages …
 
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David W. Dunlap / New York Times:
Flooding Threatens The Times's Picture Archive
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed, Vice Media, Huffington Post turn toward television as new source of revenue
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Nick Statt / The Verge:
Deadspin suspended from Twitter briefly after receiving takedown notices for GIFs from NFL; @SBNationGIF remains suspended for posting college football GIFs
Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
UK online news site Exaro faces media scrutiny about credibility after it investigated pedophilia claims
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
VICE News debuts in Italy, will expand to Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, and Australia before end-of-year
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