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11:40 AM ET, October 26, 2015

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Yahoo set the Bills-Jaguars game to autoplay for home page visitors, increasing audience  —  Here's How Yahoo Guaranteed You'd Watch Today's NFL Game  —  Yahoo paid a lot of money to stream today's Bills-Jaguars game.  Yahoo has reportedly promised advertisers that it will generate at least 3.5 million streams for the game.
Variety:
CBS News Partners With Twitter For Nov. 14 Democratic Debate  —  Twitter is looking to capitalize on the traction that presidential debates are having on TV, partnering with CBS News for coverage of the Nov. 14 Democratic face-off in Des Moines, Iowa.  —  Twitter will serve up data …
Kara Swisher / Re/code:
Martha Nelson, former editor-in-chief at Time Inc., now heads all of media for Yahoo including video  —  Martha Nelson Now Heads All Media for Yahoo, Including Video  —  According to an internal memo that went out last week, Martha Nelson has officially been designated the head of all media for Yahoo …
Jonah Peretti / BuzzFeed:
Memo from BuzzFeed's CEO: we are building “a global, cross-platform network for news and entertainment”, will slow hiring over the next year  —  A Cross-Platform, Global Network  —  I shared this note with BuzzFeeders this week.  —  BuzzFeed, Founder and CEO  —  Hello BuzzFeeders,
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Former Gawker editor Max Read joins New York magazine to launch a pop-up blog about internet culture  —  New York magazine hires Max Read to launch pop-up blog  —  The editorial brain-trust that left Gawker this summer after a dispute over an article that outed a publishing executive is finding its feet.
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
With ‘The Martian,’ Virtual Reality Has Liftoff From Fox Innovation Lab  —  LOS ANGELES — The hands may be the scariest part.  —  They are very much your own.  You can feel them, wrap them around the joystick, make them move.  —  But they seem to be locked in the gloves of a pressure suit …
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Scottish justice minister refuses to say if Scottish police are being investigated for viewing journalists' call records  —  Scottish justice minister refuses to say whether police breached Save Our Sources law to view journalists' call records  —  Scottish justice secretary Michael Matheson …
Discussion: allmediascotland
Brian Murphy / Washington Post:
Dueling narratives about charges against Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian reflect internal Iranian tensions  —  Iran's internal rifts widen as officials clash over jailed Post reporter  —  Dueling narratives in the Iranian press last week over a jailed Washington Post journalist …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How NPR, The New York Times, Vox Media, and National Geographic use The List App  —  How news organizations are using The List App to reclaim the listicle  —  Pop quiz: Which of these shows is produced by NPR?  — “This American Life”  — “99% Invisible”  — “Radiolab”
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Sources: Time Warner Cable will start testing $10 to $50 internet-only TV service in New York City next week  —  Time Warner Cable will test internet-only TV in NYC next week  —  If you want cable TV without the cable box, Time Warner Cable may have something for you soon.
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
The new Apple TV is now available to order from the Apple Online Store, first units ship October 30th  —  The Apple TV is now available to order from Apple's online store, $149 for the 32 GB model and $199 for the 64 GB model.  The first Apple TV orders will ship later this week, from October 30th.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Interview with Luke Timmerman, founder of The Timmerman Report, a biotech news site with a $99 per year paywall, partly inspired by Andrew Sullivan  —  How a business journalist became his own boss  —  Luke Timmerman is the founder and editor of The Timmerman Report, an online website covering …
 
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Aaron Morrison / International Business Times:
Media Diversity And The 2016 Election: How A Mostly White Press Corps Influences Campaign Coverage
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Researchers at Columbia and Stanford are developing Science Surveyor, a tool to help journalists contextualize scientific papers
Discussion: @stanfordnlp
Jeannine Baker / Guardian:
The trials of reporting from war zones through the eyes of female Australian journalists
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
German publishers are creating new sites and apps to target younger readers without alienating older ones
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Digital Natives Like BuzzFeed and Business Insider Rule Facebook Video Early On
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
In six months, Quartz's 130 videos had 43.4M views on Facebook and 1.6M views on YouTube