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12:00 PM ET, November 9, 2015

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James Andrew Miller / Vanity Fair:
ESPN President John Skipper takes responsibility for closing Grantland, says he didn't grasp bond between Bill Simmons and staff  —  Exclusive: ESPN President John Skipper on His Decision to Shutter Grantland  —  From the outset of its Bill Simmons-backed launch in 2011 …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Snapchat says it now has 6B daily video views, up from 4B in September, and 2B in May  —  Snapchat triples video traffic as it closes the gap with Facebook  —  Snapchat is closing the gap with Facebook in the social networks' battle for scale in video.  The number of videos viewed …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Study of European newspapers shows that photo of drowned child led to only a brief shift in reporting of refugee crisis before sympathy dwindled again  —  Images of drowned boy made only a fleeting change to refugee reporting  —  Newspapers in western Europe became significantly …
New York Times:
Al Jazeera America's general counsel David W. Harleston appears to be unlicensed; network suspends him  —  General Counsel for Al Jazeera America Appears to Be Unlicensed  —  David W. Harleston, an executive who serves as general counsel for the media company Al Jazeera America, has had a busy year.
Discussion: @gabrielmalor and Poynter
Associated Press:
Egyptian journalist Hossam Bahgat under interrogation by military intelligence, may face charges of publishing false information that harms national interests  —  Egyptian journalist faces accusations by military  —  CAIRO (AP) — A leading investigative journalist and human rights advocate …
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vox.com hires Matthew Vree, head of programming at PBS Digital Studios, as executive producer of video  —  Vox.com Hires Matthew Vree From PBS as Part of Video Expansion  —  Vox.com has hired Matthew Vree as executive producer of video, who joins the digital-news upstart from PBS Digital Studios, where he headed programming.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Referral traffic from Facebook to its top 30 publishers fell 32% between January and October  —  Facebook's traffic to top publishers fell 32 percent since January  —  While Facebook makes headlines for cooking up new initiatives with publishers, the actual traffic it's sending those publishers has fallen sharply.
Discussion: @lauraolin
The Conversation:
New research shows you're likely paying for free online news with your privacy  —  Think you're reading the news for free?  New research shows you're likely paying with your privacy  —  You may already know that every time you go online, your browsing history could be exposed …
Discussion: @us_conversation and @dangillmor
Zachary M. Seward / Quartz:
Major streaming media players reviewed: new Apple TV is best for iOS users, Amazon's Fire TV has the best interface and streaming quality  —  The ultimate, 10,000-word review of streaming media players: Apple TV vs. Roku 4 vs. Fire TV vs. Chromecast  —  Television is in flux, right down to what that word even means.
Discussion: The Next Web
Alex Spence / Politico:
After lowering the paywall, Rupert Murdoch's The Sun aggressively seeks readers, focusing less on celebrities, more on holding politicians to account  —  The Sun searches for lost mojo  —  Murdoch hires Fleet Street's ‘finest’ to revive the fading red-top.
 
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
The Wrap lets go of executive editor Joseph Kapsch
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Spain's News Media Are Squeezed by Government and Debt
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
NPR's new Earbud.fm discovery tool provides crowdsourced podcast recommendations
Discussion: Guardian
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Editors from AOL's failed Patch effort talk about how it taught them skills and served as an incubator for a crop of new local news sites
Discussion: @jimbrady
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Reddit debuts original video with Cyborg Nation, a six part series of documentary shorts
Discussion: @kashhill
Sonia Paul / MediaShift:
Contently, which matches writers with firms seeking content marketing, is financing a separate investigative journalism unit