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2:55 PM ET, November 12, 2015

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Ben Popper / The Verge:
YouTube Music standalone app launches on iOS and Android; YouTube Red subscribers get offline listening and no ads  —  YouTube Music is here, and it's a game changer  —  YouTube is first and foremost a video portal, the world's largest and most popular online collection of moving images.
Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: publishers struggle to extract as much ad revenue from Facebook's Instant Articles as they do from their own sites; Facebook mulls changes to ad rules  —  Facebook Mulls Ad Changes for Instant Articles After Publisher Pushback  —  Publishers encountered challenges because of restrictions imposed by the social network
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
CNN's iReport to shift from users contributing photos and videos to directly sourcing them from Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter users  —  Defeated by social media, CNN overhauls iReport  —  Big platforms' media dominance is forcing traditional publishers to change many parts of how they do business …
Discussion: Fortune
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune Publishing approves buyouts for 7 percent of its employees … Tribune Publishing has approved buyouts for approximately 7 percent of its eligible 7,000 employees across its media portfolio, according to a Thursday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
El País cancels column by Miguel Ángel Aguilar after he criticizes growing debt and dependence of Spanish news media  —  El País Columnist Says Dismissal Tied to His Criticism of Media Independence  —  MADRID — A veteran journalist said on Wednesday that El País …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Student journalists at University of Missouri talk about covering a local story that has become national  —  How student journalists at Mizzou are telling a local story that's become national  —  Missourian newsroom.  Photo by David Rees/Missouri School of Journalism
Spotify News:
Spotify launches personalized concert recommendations near you based on your listening history, rolling out today to iPhone and Android users  —  Never Miss Another Show with Personalized Concert Recommendations  —  Looking forward to seeing your favorite bands play live but don't know when they're in town?
Madeline Welsh / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times hopes its first virtual reality film, The Displaced, plus mass distribution of Google Cardboard kick off greater VR adoption  —  The New York Times hopes its first virtual reality film, “The Displaced,” kicks off mass adoption of VR  —  “This is probably …
Discussion: Fortune, Washington Post and TOWCenter
Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
Timothy O'Shaughnessy to replace former Washington Post publisher Donald Graham as CEO of Graham Holdings  —  Former Washington Post publisher to step down as CEO of Graham Holdings  —  Donald E. Graham, the longtime Washington publisher who engineered the sale of The Washington Post …
Rami Musa / Associated Press:
Libyan Center for Freedom of Press says journalist Motaz Kraif kidnapped in Tripoli  —  Rights group says Libyan journalist kidnapped in Tripoli  —  BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — A Libyan rights group says armed men have kidnapped a Tripoli-based journalist in front of his home.
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
The Verge's car coverage now drives as much as 30 percent of its traffic  —  Since launching four years ago, The Verge has come to mean more than just consumer tech as it's extended its coverage to science, movies and music.  But the Vox Media vertical has found a ready audience in covering …
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Facebook launches Notify, an iOS app that sends notifications for news and other timely content, with 70 media partners, including CNN, NYT, Hulu, and Techmeme  —  Here's Notify, Facebook's New Twitter-Like App for Following Publishers  —  Facebook is already dominating peoples' phone time …
TodaysZaman:
Turkish police raid printing plant of Today's Zaman over claims it was printing opposition newspaper Ozgur Bugun, labeled propaganda by government  —  Police raid Zaman daily headquarters over claims of printing Özgür Bugün  —  Police arrived at the headquarters of the Zaman daily …
 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a smart doorbell system with advanced facial recognition that can wirelessly connect and unlock third-party smart locks

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
X raises US Premium+ prices by 37.5% to $22 per month, starting on December 21, and EU prices from €16 to €21 per month; the basic subscription still costs $3

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