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6:40 AM ET, October 26, 2015

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Yahoo set the Bills-Jaguars game to autoplay for home page visitors, increasing audience  —  Here's How Yahoo Guaranteed You'd Watch Today's NFL Game  —  Yahoo paid a lot of money to stream today's Bills - Jaguars game.  Yahoo has reportedly promised advertisers that it will generate at least 3.5 million streams for the game.
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,
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Verge and Multichannel News
Aaron Morrison / International Business Times:
Media Diversity And The 2016 Election: How A Mostly White Press Corps Influences Campaign Coverage  —  As an African-American female journalist shadowing Republican presidential candidates during the 2012 election cycle, Juana Summers was, at times, the only person of color in the room.
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 …
Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Independent Musicians Find Unexpected Rewards in Streaming  —  Early last year, Perrin Lamb, a singer-songwriter in Nashville who is not signed to a record label, started to receive all kinds of strange Twitter messages.  Fans he never knew he had, writing sometimes in languages he couldn't understand …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Researchers at Columbia and Stanford are developing Science Surveyor, a tool to help journalists contextualize scientific papers  —  A group of researchers is trying to help science journalists parse academic articles on deadline  —  About 1.8 million new scientific papers are published each year …
Discussion: @stanfordnlp
Jeannine Baker / Guardian:
The trials of reporting from war zones through the eyes of female Australian journalists  —  ‘She turned up to work with debris in her hair’: the women war reporters you've never heard of  —  In her new book, Australian Women War Reporters, Jeannine Baker tells the stories of the women …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
In six months, Quartz's 130 videos had 43.4M views on Facebook and 1.6M views on YouTube  —  In six months, Quartz videos rack up 45 million views on platforms  —  With the launch of CNN's Great Big Story and publishers like BuzzFeed and Business Insider before it, the distributed approach …
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
German publishers are creating new sites and apps to target younger readers without alienating older ones  —  Young money: How German legacy publishers are chasing millennial audiences  —  BERLIN — The efforts of venture-backed new media startups jostling for the attention of millennial audiences …
 
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