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4:30 AM ET, October 27, 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 …
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 …
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.
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
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.
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 …
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
Discussion: Media Wire Daily
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 …
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.
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.
Oxford American:
Eliza Borné named new editor of Oxford American magazine  —  ELIZA BORNÉ NAMED EDITOR  —  We are pleased to announce that Eliza Borné is the new editor of the Oxford American, succeeding Roger D. Hodge, who left the magazine in June.  Borné joined the magazine …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Nathan McAlone / Business Insider:
Siri is not providing answers to music chart related queries from people who are not subscribed to Apple Music  —  Siri is refusing to answer certain questions from people who aren't Apple Music subscribers  —  Apple Music listeners are starting to end their three-month free trials — and Siri has begun to play hardball.
Discussion: AppleInsider, NBC News and The Verge
 
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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
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Scottish justice minister refuses to say if Scottish police are being investigated for viewing journalists' call records
Discussion: allmediascotland
Michael Cieply / New York Times:
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Richard Lawler / Engadget:
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Discussion: DSLreports and The Verge