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5:30 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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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 …
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 …
Pedro Burgos / Medium:
As sites turn off comments, some are experimenting with new tools for curated conversations alongside articles  —  Goodbye, comments.  Hello, “conversations”  —  There are two seemingly incompatible trends going on in the publishing world right now.  On one hand, there is a growing number …
Discussion: @sjkmcnally and @derfleck
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
Catherine Adams / Guardian:
Female tech journalists, facing online and offline abuse and intimidation, have to disguise their identities  —  Female technology journalists report abuse is still the name of the game  —  Women in tech forced to disguise their identity - and even quit the industry - after facing threats online, study finds
 
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James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
Bloomberg TV Canada to launch Nov. 16
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Twitter is laying off 336 employees or about 8% of its global workforce
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Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal:
BuzzFeed, Vice Media, Huffington Post turn toward television as new source of revenue
Discussion: @digiphile and @jyarow
Brian Flood / TVNewser:
ESPN resumes DraftKings and FanDuel sponsored segments after banning them for about three days
Discussion: Fortune and Ad Age
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
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Donald Trump announces that Sriram Krishnan, until recently a general partner at a16z, will serve as senior policy advisor for AI at the White House OSTP

Financial Times:
Sources: Palantir and Anduril are in talks with OpenAI, SpaceX, and more to form a consortium to bid for US defense contracts and plan to announce it in January
 
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