Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
8:35 PM ET, November 4, 2015

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
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 …
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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. …
Discussion: Poynter and @bradagreenberg
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 …
Discussion: @jbflint
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 …
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Economist adopts time-based ad sales  —  The Economist is ready to move beyond the impression and bet heavily on user attention-based selling as the future.  —  The publisher, which operates a hybrid subscription and ad-funded business model, is offering marketers globally the ability …
Discussion: @econmedia and mUmBRELLA
Brent Lang / Variety:
21st Century Fox Q1: revenue down 6% to $6.08B on weak box office sales; Fox cable revenue up 7% to $3.46B  —  ‘Fantastic Four’ Failure Takes Bite Out of Fox's Earnings  —  The failure of films like “The Fantastic Four” and tricky foreign exchange rates knocked the wind out of 21st Century Fox's quarterly earnings.
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
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
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 8:35 PM ET, November 4, 2015.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Sam Quinones / True Tales:
60 Minutes segment on heroin in Ohio used independent journalist's book as source without credit after he pitched them story
 Earlier Picks: 
Vikas SN / The Economic Times:
Mashable goes live in India nine months after initial launch with a dedicated team based in Mumbai and New Delhi
Discussion: Best Media Info …, dna and Trak.in
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Chromecast Can Now Stream Live Television With Added Sling TV Support
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
20 new projects are awarded $35,000 Knight Prototype Fund grants
Discussion: Poynter
 

 
From Techmeme:

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 internal reorganizations, including an AI-focused Platforms and Devices group overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, and more, led by Rick Osterloh

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Europol and 19 countries make 37 arrests and disrupt phishing-as-a-service platform LabHost in a year-long operation with help from Microsoft, Intel, and others
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page