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1:30 AM ET, November 5, 2015

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Daniel Siegal / Law360:
Jury awards former LA Times columnist T.J. Simers $7.1M over claims paper forced him out due to age and disability  —  BREAKING: Ex-LA Times Sports Writer Wins $7.1M In Age Bias Trial  —  A California jury on Wednesday evening awarded former Los Angeles Times sports columnist T.J. Simers $7.1 million …
Financial Times:
Sources: Facebook's Notify app for news alerts to launch next week with dozens of media partners including Vogue, the Washington Post, and CBS  —  Facebook links with media groups to launch news app  —  Facebook is preparing its latest push into news with a new standalone app called Notify …
Jeff Blumenthal / Philadelphia Business Journal:
Philadelphia Media Network layoffs: 17 at Philly.com, 17 at Daily News, 12 from Inquirer, union leader says  —  Union leader: Philly.com ‘gutted’ by layoffs  —  More than half of Philly.com's editorial staff and 25 percent of Daily News editorial staffers were among the 46 people laid off …
Stephanie Gleason / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Publishing offers $3M in Freedom Communication's bankruptcy case in exchange for right to bid on Orange County Register  —  Tribune Offers $3 Million to Fund Freedom Bankruptcy Case  —  LA Times publisher eyes bid for Orange County Register  —  Tribune Publishing Co. …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
NewsON, a streaming service backed by TV station owners providing ad-supported local news, launches on iOS, Android, and Roku devices  —  NewsON Brings Your Local News Stations To iOS, Android And Roku  —  A company called NewsON launched today, offering cord cutters and mobile consumers access …
Alexandra Steigrad / WWD:
Maxim Taps Glenn O'Brien as Editor-at-Large to Replace Kate Lanphear  —  WWD has learned that Maxim has hired Glenn O'Brien as editor-at-large.  —  The role is essentially a replacement for Kate Lanphear, who was let go as editor in chief last month after six months on the job.
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
Verizon, NBA announce marketing deal bringing NBA highlights and more to go90 video service; source says deal is valued at $400M and runs for three years  —  NBA teams up with Verizon on $400M marketing deal  —  Want to catch LeBron on your smartphone?  —  Verizon is hoping all-things-hoops …
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Chernin's Otter Media Aims for More Than $200M Revenue This Year  —  Otter Media, the online video-focused joint venture between the Chernin Group and AT&T, expects to generate more than $200 million in revenue across its business units this year, executives told Variety this week.
Discussion: @jank0
David Yi / Mashable:
Sources: Lucky magazine, spun off by Conde Nast in 2014 into BeachMint shopping venture, shuts down; staffers dismissed last week  —  Lucky magazine shuts down once and for all, here's why it failed  —  NEW YORK - On Friday, the handful of remaining staffers at The Lucky Group's editorial side …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Warner Q3: beats estimates with $6.4B revenue, overall revenue up 5% YoY on Warner Bros. and HBO growth  —  Time Warner Results Top Q3 Forecasts, Lifted by HBO, Warner Bros.  —  Time Warner beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and earnings for the third quarter of 2015 …
Cork Gaines / Business Insider:
Bill Simmons says his new podcast is “closing in on seven million listens” in debut month  —  Bill Simmons' new podcast is putting up massive numbers  —  It has only been one month since Bill Simmons launched his new podcast, “The Bill Simmons Podcast,” and so far the results have been huge.
Discussion: Stratechery, Fortune and @mgsiegler
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Universal and Disney's dominance in entertainment and use of news subsidiaries as promotional vehicles causes concern for some  —  In media universe, the force is strongest with Disney, Universal  —  There has never been a time when so much of American entertainment has been controlled by so few.
Discussion: @brianstelter and @carlquintanilla
 
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