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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.
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TechCrunch, YouTube Blog, Engadget, Seeking Alpha, TIME, CNBC, The Huffington Post, BBC, Hollywood Reporter, hypebot, Wired.co.uk, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Billboard, Droid Life, Gizmodo, Kotaku, @jank0, GeekWire, @pierce, MacRumors, @lucas_shaw and MacStories
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 …
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Variety, moviepilot.com, TechRadar.com, The Drum, Hollywood Reporter, New York Times, The Independent, Deadline, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Polygon, The Next Web, Bookseller News and The Wrap
Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:
James and Lachlan Murdoch in First Interview Atop Fox: Politics, Roger Ailes, Dad and Plans for the Future (Exclusive) — The brothers, who took over the 21st Century Fox empire July 1, sit down together and open up about who's in charge, sister Liz, the new age of television and whether …
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TVNewser, Mediaite, @jmcduling, Guardian, Politico and Media Wire Daily
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 …
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@antderosa, BuzzFeed, @sunfoundation, @anildash, @openstateeu, @boblannon and @mmasnick
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.
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@lpolgreen, @ivortossell, @tomhawthorn and @mathewi
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.
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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.
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New York Post, Roll Call and Talking Biz News
Lee Rainie / Pew Research Center:
Pew: 63% of Americans read at least one print book in last 12 months, 27% read an e-book, numbers largely same as 2014 survey — Slightly fewer Americans are reading print books, new survey finds — The number of book readers has dipped a bit from the previous year and the number …
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GalleyCat, @michikokakutani, @monicaranders, @lrainie and Publishers Weekly
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.
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Institute for War …, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post and Mashable
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.
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Yahoo took a $42M write-down in Q3 in its video division that backed original series including Community, “couldn't see a way to make money over time” — Why Yahoo wrote down $42 million for ‘Community’ — In April, at a star-studded “newfront” presentation at New York's Lincoln Center …
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Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Splitsider, Polygon, The Verge, VatorNews, The Wrap, Inc.com and VentureBeat
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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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