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3:55 AM ET, October 21, 2015

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Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Yahoo and Google make search deal: Yahoo will call on Google to provide some results and ads for Yahoo search queries  —  Yahoo reaches search deal with Google after loosening Microsoft ties … BREAKING NEWS: Yahoo just announced a search deal with Google, taking advantage an earlier revision …
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
John Cook Is Named Executive Editor of Gawker Media  —  John Cook, a longtime Gawker editor, will become the executive editor of Gawker Media, the portfolio of websites that was left leaderless after a tumultuous summer for the organization, according to three people briefed on the matter …
Discussion: WWD and FishbowlNY
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How a local startup in Charlotte, North Carolina thinks it can make online advertising work  —  With the online ad market dominated by large players such as Facebook and Google and under threat from ad blockers, many in the news business are looking beyond advertising as a means to make money.
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Tim Cook says Apple Music has 6.5M paying subscribers and 8.5M customers on three-month trials  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook: Apple Music Has 15 Million Users  —  Service has 6.5 million paying subscribers  —  LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Apple Inc. said it has 15 million users on its streaming-music service …
Bloomberg Business:
Sources: ESPN plans to cut 350 jobs; employees to be notified as early as Wednesday  —  Disney's ESPN Said Planning to Eliminate as Many as 350 Jobs  —  Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN sports network plans to eliminate as many as 350 positions, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify Pulls Independent Music Company's Releases Amid Royalties Dispute  —  Music-streaming service takes down thousands of songs by bands signed to Victory Records  —  Spotify AB removed thousands of songs by bands signed to independent record label Victory Records amid a standoff …
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
NYT Magazine's Bin Laden Cover Story Sparked Controversy In The Newsroom  —  Washington reporters told top editor they worried the story gave oxygen to unsubstantiated claims about the raid.
Discussion: New York Times and @emptywheel
Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat:
Microsoft partners with DJ Skee's Dash Radio for an all-Halo music station  —  EXCLUSIVE:  —  Microsoft's got a new Halo coming out soon, and it is celebrating that impending release by spinning some of the shooter franchise's classic tunes.  —  Halo is getting its own music station on the Dash Radio music app.
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Sony Pictures will pay up to $8 million to settle hack lawsuit with employees  —  Nearly a year after its devastating hack, Sony Pictures' settlement with former employees has been made public, offering as much as $8 million to resolve the ongoing lawsuit.  —  According to documents filed today …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
As Apple Music Trials Wrap, Spotify Snags The #1 Top Grossing Spot In US App Store For First Time  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook yesterday may have been touting the number of Apple Music music paying subscribers - 6.5 million, but at the same time rival Spotify was quietly hitting a milestone of its own.
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
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Joe Pompeo / Politico:
News organisations testing new, simplified version of Wordsmith, Automated Insights' automated news reporting service
Discussion: Wired, Politico and Poynter
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Huffington Post nabs Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner to present web docu-series which will be aired on all 15 global editions of the site
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
New York Times partners with Google on virtual reality project, will distribute over 1M cardboard VR viewers to subscribers, and will release new VR film