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12:20 PM ET, November 2, 2015

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 Top News: 
Washington Post:
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 …
Frank Pallotta / CNNMoney:
CBS All Access SVOD and streaming service gets a boost with launch of new Star Trek series in January 2017  —  New ‘Star Trek’ series to blast off on CBS streaming service  —  CBS is about to boldly go where we've kind of been before.  —  A new “Star Trek” television series will arrive …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Behind Henry Blodget's plans to turn Business Insider into the financial publication of record for the digital generation  —  Henry Blodget's big plans for Business Insider  —  Henry Blodget spent the past eight years transforming Business Insider from a scrappy three-man show …
Ross Miller / The Verge:
The next season of Serial will debut simultaneously on Pandora  —  The second season of Serial still doesn't have a start date, but it does have a new, unlikely distribution partner.  Pandora announced today that it will be the exclusive streaming partner for the podcast phenomenon.
Jeremy Barr / Politico:
Joe Nocera's New York Times op-ed column is ending  —  Joe Nocera, who has served as an op-ed columnist for The New York Times since 2011, will publish his last op-ed column on Tuesday, the company confirmed to POLITICO.  —  Nocera's column, which focuses on business and finance, has run twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News
Jeremy Barr / Politico:
New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger announces succession plan  —  At a staff meeting Monday morning, New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. announced that the company has initiated a succession process, and that a deputy publisher will be named within two years, according to a source.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
How Ziff Davis under CEO Vivek Shah survived the death of print by going all digital  —  How Ziff Davis survived the death of print  —  In 2009, when venture investor Marc Andreessen showed up to a small dinner in the San Francisco Bay Area set up by journalist Josh Quittner …
Discussion: @harrymccracken, @digitalshields and @rafat, Thanks:@beet_tv
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. …
Brent Lang / Variety:
Relativity Bankruptcy: Judge Approves Debtor in Possession Financing Agreement  —  After weeks of delays, a U.S. bankruptcy court judge has approved a plan that will allow Relativity Media to continue accessing a $35 million debtor-in-possession loan.  —  The film studio behind “Limitless” …
Discussion: Deadline
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 …
Discussion: @dw_innovation
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
TMZ Sports Lands Breaking News Series on Fox Sports 1  —  Bad timing, Lamar Odom: TMZ Sports is set to launch a breaking news series next Monday on Fox Sports 1.  —  The aptly named “TMZ Sports” will feature “exclusive up-to-the-minute, off-field stories and breaking news specifically focused …
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.
Discussion: @jfagone
 
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
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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
Discussion: TeleRead
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
2 Men Who Published Writings Critical of Extremism Are Stabbed in Bangladesh
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Fusion
 

 
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Gaby Del Valle / The Verge:
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse

Daniel Wiessner / Reuters:
Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
PCs that can run large AI models may drive an enterprise PC replacement cycle, but some CIOs say they'll wait for the category to mature and prices to come down

 
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