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4:20 PM ET, November 9, 2015

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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 …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Nate Silver accuses Vox of recycling Wikipedia entries  —  FiveThirtyEight.com boss Nate Silver is a superlative interviewee.  He speaks passionately about his history in data journalism, his voyage from online poker whiz to independent blogger to New York Times breakout star to ESPN mainstay.
Discussion: Mediaite
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 …
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 …
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: Medium, @gaberivera and @lauraolin
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: The Wrap and FishbowlNY
Richard Deitsch / SI.com:
ESPN's new public editor Jim Brady speaks on role, Grantland and more  —  Following an 11-month vacancy of its ombudsman position, ESPN last week named longtime digital journalist Jim Brady to be the company's public editor.  Brady follows Robert Lipstye in the position …
Discussion: @richarddeitsch
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
China grants visas to two New York Times journalists as paper works with Chinese authorities to have other reporters granted entry  —  New York Times visa gridlock in China loosens a bit  —  The New York Times is working with Chinese authorities to resolve a diplomatic impasse that prevented …
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.
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
UVA fraternity Phi Kappa Psi sues Rolling Stone for $25M for “A Rape on Campus” story  —  U-Va. fraternity files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone  —  The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine …
Discussion: Mediaite and FishbowlNY
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Sources: several Twitter board members likely to depart, including the “three Peters”, perhaps as late as next year, as Dorsey seeks to add more diversity  —  Twitter Plans to Turn Over Its Board, Add More Diversity  —  Twitter's board won't look like Twitter's board for long.
Discussion: The Wrap, Fortune and Fusion
 
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