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10:30 AM ET, November 3, 2015

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Jay Greene / The Seattle Times:
Amazon Books, the digital retailer's first brick-and-mortar store, to open in University Village Seattle on Tuesday with 5K-6K titles  —  Amazon opens first brick-and-mortar bookstore — at U Village  —  Two decades after it started selling books online, Amazon opens a shopping center storefront with books for sale on actual shelves.
Washington Post:
Sources: Trump campaign to deal directly with networks on debates, upending joint proposal from GOP candidates  —  Trump campaign to negotiate directly with TV networks on debate formats  —  Donald Trump and his advisers have decided to work directly with television executives and take a lead role …
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Marcus Brauchli / Vox:
Former Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli praises CNBC debate, says its messiness gave an insight into candidates behaviour
Ed Sherman / Poynter:
ESPN's mistake was not killing Grantland earlier  —  Each Sunday, ESPN's Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman send out an email newsletter called “The Sunday Long Read.”  With input from readers, they select the week's best in longform journalism from a broad range of subjects, including sports.
Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK:
Entire editorial staff of Elsevier journal Lingua resigns over high price, lack of open access  —  Editors planning to launch their own open access rival early next year.  —  The entire editorial staff of the prestigious academic title Lingua have resigned in protest over the high cost …
Discussion: Inside Higher Ed, Fortune and TeleRead
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 …
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
20 new projects are awarded $35,000 Knight Prototype Fund grants  —  The Knight Foundation announced today that it was awarding $700,000 in new funding to 20 new projects focused on media or information through its Knight Prototype Fund.  —  Each project will receive $35,000 in funding.
Discussion: Knight Foundation and Poynter
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Viacom, TiVo partner to give TV advertisers more data  —  Nov 2 Media company Viacom Inc and set-top box maker TiVo Inc have formed a partnership designed to help advertisers better target their TV commercials and determine if their ads led to store visits or purchases, executives said.
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vice to announce TV channel as early as Tuesday, in talks to get $200M from Disney  —  Vice Media Rides Lofty Expectations  —  Company known for edgy reporting is poised to get its own TV channel in a deal with A+E  —  In the current crop of new-media companies touting their ability …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Bloomberg Media hires M. Scott Havens from Time Inc. as digital chief  —  Bloomberg L.P. has nabbed a veteran digital executive amid recent changes to the leadership team responsible for its consumer-facing brands.  —  Bloomberg Media, a division with properties including Bloomberg Businessweek …
Jeremy Barr / Politico:
Source: New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger initiates succession plan, deputy publisher to be named within two years  —  New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger announces succession plan  —  At a staff meeting Monday morning, New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger …
Pamela Samuelson / Chronicle of Higher Education:
Google Book Search rescues scholarly work from obscurity, opens up new fields of research, and may enhance book market  —  Google's Court Victory Is Good for Scholarly Authors.  Here's Why.  —  The Authors Guild has lost the latest round of the copyright battle that it brought against Google more than a decade ago.
Discussion: @stanfordpress and @utexaspress
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Localore launches 15 new public media projects to cover diverse communities across America  —  Localore launches 15 new public media projects to cover diverse communities across America  —  Fifteen independent producers have partnered with public media stations from across the United States …
Discussion: @oditor
 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

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