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5:30 AM ET, November 10, 2015

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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
Activists at University of Missouri block freelance ESPN journalist from public space on campus, raising issues of respect vs. press freedom  —  As Missouri Activists Block Journalists, a Divide Over ‘Respect’ and Rights  —  A video that showed University of Missouri protesters restricting …
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.
T. Rees Shapiro / Washington Post:
UVA fraternity Phi Kappa Psi sues Rolling Stone for $25M for “A Rape on Campus” story  —  U-Va. fraternity files $25 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone  —  The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia filed a $25 million lawsuit Monday against Rolling Stone magazine …
Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal:
US pay-TV providers lost 357K subscribers in Q3, more than double the Q3 2014 loss but less than the 605K loss in Q2 2015  —  The Cord-Cutting Verdict for Pay TV  —  The cord-cutting results are in.  But there will be plenty of debate about what the data means.
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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.
Discussion: @sethamandel and Mediaite
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 …
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 …
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: @richarddeitsch
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 …
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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Kareem Fahim / New York Times:
Egypt Extends Detention of a Journalist, Hossam Bahgat
Nick Wingfield / New York Times:
Using trusted curation to build loyalty and the Internet to expand reach, small radio stations compete successfully with services like Spotify and Pandora
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Vox.com hires Matthew Vree, head of programming at PBS Digital Studios, as executive producer of video
Discussion: The Wrap and FishbowlNY
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Richard Johnson / Page Six:
The Wrap lets go of executive editor Joseph Kapsch
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