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4:10 PM ET, October 26, 2015

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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Discussion: @laurenstrapa, @id4ro and @wolfewylie
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: @jyarow
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Discussion: allmediascotland
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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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
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Richard Lawler / Engadget:
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Aaron Morrison / International Business Times:
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Researchers at Columbia and Stanford are developing Science Surveyor, a tool to help journalists contextualize scientific papers
Discussion: @stanfordnlp
Jeannine Baker / Guardian:
The trials of reporting from war zones through the eyes of female Australian journalists
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
German publishers are creating new sites and apps to target younger readers without alienating older ones
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