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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 …
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Wrap, Business Insider, @jayrosen_nyu, @craigcalcaterra, @michele_norris, @ckrewson, @moorehn, @tcarmody, Mashable, The Huffington Post, Adweek, @film_girl, @film_girl, @mathewi, @samhempel, @nycjim and @jayshams
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 …
Discussion:
Digiday, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, VatorNews, Fortune, @blathnaidhealy, The Next Web, AdExchanger, Engadget, Business Insider, The Verge, Business Pundit and VentureBeat
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.
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Mediaite
Politico:
Politico Europe plans to double in size in 2016, announces new London bureau — POLITICO Europe announces expansion plans for 2016 — POLITICO Europe this morning announced plans to double in size in 2016, starting with two significant hires. — Francesco Guerrera has been named Chief …
Discussion:
Digiday, @guerreraf72, @jeffjarvis, FishbowlNY, @raju and @kaminskimk
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 …
Discussion:
European Journalism …, @astroehlein and @onthemedia
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:
Wall Street Journal, @gabrielmalor and Poynter
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 and @lauraolin
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 …
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
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.
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.
Discussion:
Home Media Magazine, Variety, Zacks Investment Research, MarketWatch, StreetInsider.com, The Bulletin and The Fiscal Times
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Using the Internet for distribution, and human curation, small radio stations compete with services like Spotify and Pandora for audiences succesfully — In the Stream of Internet Radio, Music Stations Hold Their Own — SEATTLE — Internet radio was supposed to squash small FM music stations like KEXP.
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 …
Discussion:
Daily News Egypt and allAfrica.com
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