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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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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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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.
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VentureBeat, Mashable, App Advice, The Verge and TIME
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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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
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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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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@mathewi, @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
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 …
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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, @postbaron, Voice of America and The Foreign Desk