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1:55 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 …
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.
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: @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
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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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: Fusion
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Dish Network Q3: net income rises 34% y-o-y to $196M, loses 23K pay-TV subscribers  —  Dish Network Grows Profit as Subscribers Shrink  —  Dish Network missed sales estimates but bested Wall Street's bottomline predictions with its third quarter financial results, which were released early Monday morning.
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: On The Media and iMediaEthics
 
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
The Wrap lets go of executive editor Joseph Kapsch
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Spain's News Media Are Squeezed by Government and Debt
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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
NPR's new Earbud.fm discovery tool provides crowdsourced podcast recommendations
Discussion: Guardian
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