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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 …
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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 …
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Business Insider, The Verge, Engadget, @blathnaidhealy, AdExchanger, Business Pundit, The Next Web and VentureBeat

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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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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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 …
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Cairo Post, Daily News Egypt and allAfrica.com


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.
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The Digital Reader, @sriramk, The Digital Reader, @pmarca, The Atlantic, Forbes and Vox


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.
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MarketWatch, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, The Bulletin, Zacks Investment Research and StreetInsider.com


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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Politico


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 …


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 …
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