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4:05 AM ET, October 14, 2015

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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 …
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Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Q&A: Pitchfork Founder Ryan Schreiber on Conde Nast Sale, Indie Roots and Expansion  —  Ryan Schreiber was an indie music buff with no journalism experience when he launched the website Pitchfork out of his suburban Minneapolis home in 1996.  On Tuesday, Pitchfork Media joined the big leagues …
Discussion: Forbes, TechCrunch, WWD and FishbowlNY
Jeremy Barr / Politico:
New York Times creates digital newsroom to cover and add reporting, commentary on viral stories  —  The New York Times builds out digital rewrite team  —  The New York Times has created a new newsroom unit to tackle the types of stories that are going viral on the web.
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Tom Corrigan / Wall Street Journal:
Relativity Television's Employees Expected to Remain After Purchase  —  Chief Executive Tom Forman will continue in that role  —  Relativity Television's employees, including chief executive Tom Forman, are expected to remain in place when senior lenders buy the TV studio from the ailing company later …
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Brent Lang / Variety:
Buyers Pledge to Bolster Relativity Television With $60 Million Investment  —  Senior Film and Media Reporter @BrentALang  —  The prospective owners of Relativity Media's television business are committed to investing a minimum of $60 million into the company behind such shows as MTV's …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Dish Petitions FCC to Deny Charter-Time Warner Cable Merger  —  Satellite provider cites combined company's market power in broadband  —  Satellite provider Dish Network Corp. petitioned the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to deny the proposed merger between Charter Communications Inc …
Daniel Frankel / FierceCable:
Comcast partners with 30 broadcast and cable networks, including ESPN and AMC, to bring short-form videos to its X1 video platform  —  Comcast partners with programmers to bring short-form Web clips to X1  —  Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) announced it launched a “Web” section …
David W. Dunlap / New York Times:
Flooding Threatens The Times's Picture Archive  —  A broken pipe on Saturday morning sent water cascading into the morgue — the storage area where The Times keeps its immense collection of historical photos, along with newspaper clippings, microfilm records, books and other archival material …
Discussion: Poynter
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Facebook tests new video feed, attempts to emulate YouTube to better compete for advertising dollars  —  Facebook Is Building Its Own YouTube Inside Facebook  —  Facebook has started serving up billions and billions of videos to its users by placing the clips in their feeds …
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 …
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.
 
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