Mediagazer: 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 (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street …)

8:30 PM ET, October 26, 2015

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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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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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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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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

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.

Discussion: VentureBeat, Mashable, App Advice, The Verge and TIME

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.

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.

Discussion: @petersterne, @mathewi, @chaykak and @max_read

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 …

Discussion: @pkedrosky, Fortune and @jyarow

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 …

Discussion: Media Wire Daily

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.

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 …

Discussion: @pkafka, FishbowlNY, Variety, Media Wire Daily, AdExchanger and Business Insider

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