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7:10 AM ET, November 9, 2015

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 Top News: 
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 …
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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Dina al-Shibeeb / Al Arabiya:
Founder of Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm, Salah Diab, arrested on charges of corruption along with his son, assets frozen  —  Founder of Egyptian paper Al-Masry al-Youm arrested  —  Salah Diab, a businessman who in 2004 founded Egyptian daily al-Masry al-Youm was arrested on early Sunday …
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.
Dustin Kurtz / New Republic:
A visit to Amazon Books reveals Amazon's new retail bookstore is no better than traditional bookstores  —  My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's Bizarre New Bookstore  —  A former indie bookseller visits the retailer's brick and mortar store  —  Amazon's new brick and mortar bookstore is wildly banal.
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.
Discussion: Politico
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Spain's News Media Are Squeezed by Government and Debt  —  MADRID — Newspapers almost everywhere have struggled to adjust to digital technology and declining advertising revenues.  —  But in Spain, the rapid restructuring of a shrinking industry — more than 11,000 journalists have lost …
Discussion: Talking New Media
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
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  —  Grown from Patch: A crop of new hyperlocal news sites has sprung up from AOL's failed platform  —  The general conception of Patch …
Discussion: @jimbrady
The Intercept:
The Intercept partners with Parse.ly to create anonymized analytics system for its site, to be activated in about a week  —  What The Intercept's New Audience Measurement System Means for Reader Privacy  —  Earlier this year, The Intercept got a new visual identity, the first step in a multi-phase redesign.
Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
NPR's new Earbud.fm discovery tool provides crowdsourced podcast recommendations  —  NPR's new podcast concierge recommends shows from inside — and outside — public radio  —  Seventeen percent of Americans age 12 and older have listened to at least one podcast in a given month …
Discussion: Guardian and RAIN News
 
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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
Denis D. Gray / Associated Press:
Myanmar's fledgling journalists gird for historic election
Ruth Reader / VentureBeat:
New York Times invests in The History Project, which lets users create multimedia stories for personal histories, family stories, more
Colin Lecher / The Verge:
Louisiana booksellers sue to block law that could make them verify ages online
Discussion: Guardian
Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
BuzzFeed Is Returning to SXSW After Panel Cancellation Controversy
Discussion: Engadget
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Adam Jourdan / Reuters:
China says Disney to get special trademark protection
Discussion: @ustrademarklaw
Mike Fleming / Deadline:
Gamergate film based on Zoe Quinn's memoir in the works from Amy Pascal's production company
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Philly journalists rally to help laid-off colleagues get hired