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11:35 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 …
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.
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 …
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: Fortune, @pkedrosky 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 …
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.
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 …
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
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.
Bob Fernandez / Philly.com:
Comcast to turn nonvoting K shares into common stock, preserving Roberts family control  —  Comcast Corp. has proposed reclassifying 347 million non-voting K shares as regular common stock while preserving the Roberts family 33 percent voting control of the cable and Internet giant, the company said Monday.
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.
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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