Top News:


Facebook Expands Search To All 2 Trillion Posts, Surfacing Public Real-Time News — Facebook is ready to challenge Google and Twitter for control of real-time news search and the news itself. Starting today with a rollout to US English language users, Facebook Search will return anything you're allowed …


Vice will launch TV network in US and Europe in 2016, revenue nears $1B this year, says CEO Shane Smith — Vice to launch TV network in US, and a dozen in Europe — Vice CEO Shane Smith has built an empire around content aimed at millennials. Now, he says he's bringing that content to many more TV networks around the globe.
Discussion:
@rafat, FishbowlNY, @mathewi and Fortune


Florida judge rules Hulk Hogan's legal team can search Gawker computers, servers, emails, text messages for terms: “racist”, “Hulk Hogan”, “DVD details” — Judge: Hulk Hogan can investigate leak of racist rant — ST. PETERSBURG — Hulk Hogan's legal team …
Discussion:
Hollywood Reporter, CNNMoney, @kashhill, Fox News, Fusion, Wrestlezone, BuzzFeed, UPROXX, @daweiner, @eriqgardner, all and Bleacher Report


Pandora Reaches $90 Million Settlement With Labels Over Pre-1972 Music — Keith Moon and The Who, John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend performing ‘Happy Jack’. — Ron Howard/Redferns — The Recording Industry Association of America has announced that its members …
Discussion:
New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Tennessean.com and Variety
RELATED:

Pandora Shares Down 20% In After-Hours Trading After Company Posts Q3 Loss
Discussion:
Globe and Mail, Bloomberg Business, Re/code, ZDNet, CNET, @richbtig, TheStreet.com, Pandora, 24/7 Wall St., @corvuscap, @richbtig and @joan_e


Amazon Handily Beats Analyst Expectations With $25.4B In Sales, Stock Spikes 11% — Amazon — once again — surprised investors by beating analyst expectations for its third-quarter earnings report, bringing in $2.54 billion in net sales and earnings of 17 cents cents per share.
Discussion:
Publishers Weekly, Amazon.com, Forbes, Pocket-lint and Re/code


Lena Dunham's Lenny is the first celebrity-run site that might threaten traditional media outlets as the Internet increasingly displaces the middleman press — Lena Dunham and Lenny: Self-Publishing Celebrities as News Competition — Few would doubt Lena Dunham has many awards coming …
Discussion:
@awallenstein


Sources: Liberty Global in talks to buy Cable & Wireless Communications, which serves the Caribbean, Panama, Monaco, and the Seychelles — Malone's Liberty Global in Talks to Buy Cable & Wireless Communications — Deal could value company at more than $5 billion, be reached by early November
Discussion:
Light Reading, Variety and Multichannel News


IAB: Digital advertising revenue reaches record high of $27.5B during first half of 2015, with mobile accounting for 30% of all digital ad spend — IAB: Digital Advertising Hits Record High of $27.5 Billion — Mobile Leads the Pack, Accounting for 30% of All Digital Advertising Spend
Discussion:
Ad Age, MediaPost, warc.com, Radio & Television …, Search Engine Land, Business Wire, The Drum, AdExchanger, Wall Street Journal and Marketing Land


Google launches €150m fund for publishers' digital news projects — Internet giant says funding will have ‘no strings attached’, with larger grants needing approval from a council including the Telegraph's Murdoch MacLennan — Google has launched its €150m (£109m) …
Discussion:
The Next Web, Press Gazette, EconoTimes, 9to5Google, Financial Times and TechCrunch


Fired Los Angeles Times publisher Austin Beutner urges local ownership of newspapers but says he's not involved in ongoing talks to buy paper — Fired Los Angeles Times publisher urges local ownership — Austin Beutner, the Los Angeles Times publisher who was recently fired by Tribune Publishing …
Discussion:
Chicago Tribune, Politico, FishbowlNY, @brianstelter, @daviduberti, @lemonverbena_ and @daviduberti

Scripps partners with PolitiFact in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and Ohio; political fact-checking now covers 14 states ahead of 2016 presidential election — PolitiFact and Scripps launch partnerships in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio — PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter is coming to Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Ohio.
Discussion:
Broadcasting & Cable and @politifact


Q&A with Vox CEO Jim Bankoff on valuations, acquisitions, and partnerships with large media corporations — Media People: Vox Media's Jim Bankoff — Jim Bankoff, chairman and chief executive officer of Vox Media, isn't exactly a typical start-up ceo.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY


Ahead of December launch, Nielsen unveils its total audience measurement tool that counts viewers across all TVs, DVRs, VODs, PCs, and mobile devices — A First Look at Nielsen's Total Audience Measurement and How It Will Change the Industry — It's been two years since Nielsen …