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GOP presidential campaigns map out rules for more control of TV debates — GOP contenders demand greater control over crucial debates — Several Republican presidential campaigns began mapping out new demands Sunday for greater control over the format and content of primary debates …
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Jonathan Lansner / Orange County Register:
Freedom Communications, owner of Orange County Register, files for bankruptcy, second time in 6 years; CEO Rich Mirman, local investors hope to gain control — With bankruptcy filing, local group bids for ownership of Freedom Communications — Freedom Communications Inc. …
Bob Lefsetz / Lefsetz Letter:
Distribution without talent sets up companies for failure, which is why ESPN had to shut down Grantland — Grantland — We can debate the financial viability of “Grantland” all day long. But we cannot debate the fact that the site was synonymous with Bill Simmons, and without him it's toast.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Grantland's journalistic innovations: a focus on the “so what” and “now what” of news, and writers who roamed across subject areas — Why Grantland mattered to journalism — ESPN shut down Grantland, its boutique sports and pop culture site, on Friday.
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Instagram Builds Its Own Version of Snapchat Live Stories — Instagram is taking cues from Snapchat and Twitter with its latest update — curated content streams for specific events, in this case, Halloween. — If you open the Instagram app in the U.S. on Saturday, you'll see a new prompt …
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
HBO Europe names Herve Payan as CEO starting 1st Jan 2016, HBO Europe, HBO Netherlands and HBO Nordic to be consolidated — HBO Europe Names New CEO, Rejigs Organization — Herve Payan will take over on Jan. 1 and consolidate HBO Europe, HBO Nordic and HBO Netherlands under his leadership.
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Harvard's Law School Library is digitizing more than 40M pages of legal decisions, free access to the entire collection to be available online in 2017 — Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age — Shelves of law books are an august symbol of legal practice …
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Ellen Barry / New York Times:
2 Men Who Published Writings Critical of Extremism Are Stabbed in Bangladesh — NEW DELHI — Two businessmen who had published the works of Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American known for his critical writings on religious extremism, were stabbed on Saturday by groups of men in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, the police said.
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
German daily Die Welt wants to bundle print, digital, and TV into a single newsroom (and brand) — BERLIN — When The New York Times announced that it would create a separate, centralized group of editors and designers to focus on producing its daily print product, those at the German …
Storyful / Medium:
How WhatsApp and similar closed networks challenge newsgatherers seeking to verify eyewitness accounts — Navigating eyewitness news amid closed networks — How WhatsApp and similar networks are challenging newsgatherers when it comes to verification of eyewitness content, by Storyful News Editor Joe Galvin.
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
For Philly's durable Daily News, it looks like the beginning of the end — Newsroom cuts at the Philadelphia Media Network's Inquirer and Daily News, announced at a staff meeting Friday, look at first to be just one more chapter in the decade-old opus of the industry's deteriorating finances and reduced news capacity.
Sarah Jeong / Motherboard:
How US copyright law limits internet radio and why Pandora paid $90M to the RIAA — Internet Radio Copyright Is Bad and Dumb: A Comprehensive Explainer — Pandora has just agreed to a $90 million settlement with the Recording Industry Association of America.
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