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6:50 PM ET, October 21, 2015

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YouTube Red Subscription Will Include Original Series From PewDiePie, CollegeHumor, And More  —  YouTube wants to use exclusive series and movies from its biggest stars to differentiate its new $9.99 ad-free video and on-demand music subscription service YouTube Red.
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Ben Popper / The Verge:
Inside YouTube's new $10 per month subscription service YouTube Red, which removes ads, adds offline viewing, more, available October 28 in US, soon globally  —  Red Dawn  —  A family is gathered around the dinner table: Dad and the kids have spaghetti on their plates, Mom is standing, serving spoon in hand.
Steven Tweedie / Business Insider:   Google takes on Spotify and Apple Music with new YouTube Music app
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Disney to launch DisneyLife subscription streaming service in the UK in November, expand to France, Spain, Italy, and Germany next year  —  Disney to launch digital subscription streaming service in UK  —  Walt Disney will next month launch a first of its kind digital subscription service …
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Twitter CEO suggests Politwoops might return  —  Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey hinted at the return of the Sunlight Foundation's well-regarded Politwoops service on Thursday at the Twitter Flight developer conference in San Francisco.  In his speech, Dorsey apologized to developers …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
ESPN confirms layoffs of 300 people; source says in distribution, advertising, technology, content, and others  —  ESPN to Lay Off About 300 Employees  —  Sports-media company looks to control costs in a challenging pay-TV landscape  —  ESPN said it would lay off nearly 300 employees at the company …
James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:
Canada's Postmedia scraps evening tablet editions 17 months after launch  —  Postmedia scraps evening tablet editions  —  Postmedia Network Canada Corp. is pulling the plug on its ambitious evening tablet editions, ending an experiment with daily digital news that launched less than a year and a half ago.
Rhiannon Williams / Telegraph:
Apple's News arrives in the UK with iOS 9.1 update  —  Apple's News app, an aggregator for your favourite news sources, is now available to download in the UK alongside iOS 9.1  —  Apple's News app is now available for UK iPhone and iPad owners in the UK, acting as a personalised newsfeed agregator for digital media.
Discussion: Mirror.co.uk
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Melinda Henneberger, senior writer at Bloomberg Politics and founder of AOL's Politics Daily, named Roll Call editor-in-chief  —  Melinda Henneberger named Roll Call editor-in-chief  —  Melinda Henneberger has been named editor-in-chief of Roll Call, the paper announced on Wednesday.
Mark Tran / Guardian:
Family of British journalist found dead at Turkish airport say she acted alone  —  Initial reports indicated Jacqueline Sutton, of IWPR, took her own life and family was sceptical  —  The family of a British journalist who was found dead at an airport in Turkey have said they believe no one else was involved in her death.
Andrew Golis / Medium:
One-link-a-day sharing site This. opens to public, redesigns website to allow commentary and context  —  Introducing: This.  —  A new home for the links you love. … L  —  ast year, we launched This. in private beta.  —  We felt overwhelmed by the volume and underwhelmed by the quality of media on other sharing networks.
Discussion: @mathewi and BuzzFeed
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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
 
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Study shows 71% of national UK newspaper market owned by News UK, Daily Mail & General Trust, and Trinity Mirror, which threatens news plurality
Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
Downward stocks, retrenchment of IPO market, Trump lawsuit, and other issues mean Univision could delay its planned IPO
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
Vice holds two-hour blackout to support journalist imprisoned in Turkey
Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:
2-year-old Bustle hits 45 million monthly uniques, flirts with profitability, and launches …
Discussion: @hsaltz
 Earlier Picks: 
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Sony Pictures will pay up to $8 million to settle hack lawsuit with employees
Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat:
Microsoft partners with DJ Skee's Dash Radio for an all-Halo music station
Discussion: WinBeta, Thanks:@joncappetta
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
As Apple Music Trials Wrap, Spotify Snags The #1 Top Grossing Spot In US App Store For First Time
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Spotify removes thousands of songs from Victory Records' catalog amid royalties dispute
Discussion: New York Times and Fortune
Wall Street Journal:
Comcast is in talks with TV networks and audience measurement firms to share data harnessed from set-top boxes and apps