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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, Politico, TVNewser, Poynter, FishbowlDC, FishbowlNY, The Wrap, Broadcasting & Cable, StreetInsider.com and The Huffington Post
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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CNNMoney, Yahoo, Digiday, Ad Age, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Variety, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, The Drum, Reuters, Business Insider, Variety and Forbes
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 …
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Variety, FishbowlNY, Business Insider, @pkafka, AdExchanger and Media Wire Daily
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.
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@laurenstrapa, @id4ro and @wolfewylie
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 and @max_read
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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@benthompson, @spettypi and @deborahgage
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,
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Poynter, @emilybell, @stevesi, @peretti, @pkafka, @stevesi, @edmundlee, @joshconstine, @gaberivera and @jayrosen_nyu
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 …
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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 …
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@meshelmay, Voice of America, The Foreign Desk and @postbaron
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.
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Multichannel News, The Verge and DSLreports