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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, @mikeisaac, @jeffjarvis and NYConvergence.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.
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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Poynter, The Twitter Blog, TVNewser, @gov, Politico, The Huffington Post, FishbowlDC, Broadcasting & Cable, FishbowlNY, The Wrap and StreetInsider.com
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
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
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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Home Media Magazine, The Verge, CNNMoney, Ars Technica, Engadget, VatorNews, WebProNews, Wall Street Journal, Adweek, Ad Age, Variety, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, The Drum, Reuters, VentureBeat, Variety, Business Insider, Forbes and Re/code
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
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.
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Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter and Broadcasting & Cable
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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@petersterne, @chaykak, @max_read and @mathewi