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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
New York Times shutters City Room blog — The New York Times on Monday announced it will close its City Room blog, which for years has been a clearinghouse for the paper's metro news: … The announcement, which appeared in a City Room post under Andy Newman's byline …
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New York Times, The New York Observer, @moorehn, @bendreyfuss, @jayrosen_nyu, @bydanielvictor, @jeffjarvis, NYConvergence.com and @mikeisaac
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 …
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The Twitter Blog, Poynter, TVNewser, Politico, @gov, FishbowlDC, The Huffington Post, Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlNY, The Wrap and StreetInsider.com
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Netflix, SoundCloud, Vimeo and more join tech firms and activists objecting to EU's net neutrality law to be voted on Tuesday — Tech Giants Sign Letter Against EU Laws To Hand Huge New Powers To ISPs — New European legislation which threatens net neutrality is set to go before the EU Parliament Tuesday.
John Ourand / SportsBusiness Daily:
Sources place most of the blame for ESPN layoffs on rising costs of NFL, MLB, and NBA rights deals, and deep distribution cuts — The moves that forced ESPN's cuts — Media executives point to rights fees, loss of subscribers … As the names of the roughly 300 laid-off ESPN employees leaked though …
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Fortune, @pkedrosky and @jyarow
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
The NFL's First Live-Streamed Game On Yahoo Attracted Over 15 Million Viewers — Yahoo and the NFL this morning said that over 15 million people tuned into the first-ever global live stream of a regular season NFL game, hosted by Yahoo on Sunday, which featured a match-up Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Jessica Davies / Digiday:
Bloomberg Media rolls out ad tech tools to boost revenues in Europe, Middle East, and Asia — How Bloomberg plans to monetize trending news and social traffic across EMEA — Bloomberg Media wants to further monetize trending news stories as well as readers who arrive on its sites from social media …
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Media Wire Daily and Talking Biz News
Mario Garcia / Poynter:
3 Canadian newspapers gave up on evening tablet editions as readers migrated to smartphones — Why 3 Canadian newspapers gave up on the tablet edition — Those wonderfully produced tablet editions of the Postmedia group in Canada have ceased to exist. Yet, other tablet editions in Canada appear to thrive.
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.
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VentureBeat, Mashable, App Advice, The Verge and TIME
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Time Inc. acquires women's sites xoJane and xoVain, operated by Say Media and founder and editor Jane Pratt; Pratt and staff to join Time — Time Inc. Acquires Websites Aimed at Women — Publisher aims to bolster digital reach with xoJane.com and xoVain.com
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Media Wire Daily
John Eggerton / Multichannel News:
AT&T U-verse and Tribune Broadcasting reach retransmission deal that includes carrying WGN — AT&T U-verse, Tribune Get Retrans Deal Done — Includes Carriage of WGN America on U-verse, DirecTV — WASHINGTON — AT&T's U-verse TV and Tribune Broadcasting have resolved …
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Deadline, JSOnline, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable and The Wrap
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.
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@petersterne, @chaykak, @max_read and @mathewi
Caroline Lees / European Journalism Observatory:
Reuters Institute survey shows digital news adoption and the devices readers use to consume digital news vary widely in European nations — Digital News Report: Most Europeans Access News Online... And On Television — Most Europeans now access news online, yet traditional news sources - particularly television - remain important.