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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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European Journalism …
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.
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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 …
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Cairo Post, Daily News Egypt and allAfrica.com
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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 …
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@us_conversation and @dangillmor