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6:30 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.
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Snapchat Signs Up Another Publisher: The Wall Street Journal  —  The Wall Street Journal is going after a new audience.  So, apparently, is Snapchat.  —  The Journal will soon be joining Snapchat's group of Discover publishers, according to multiple sources, the first major business publication …
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
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Hulu in early talks to sell stake to Time Warner in deal valuing Hulu at $5B-$6B; Time Warner would invest cash, commit to license content  —  Hulu in Talks to Sell Stake to Time Warner  —  Deal could help streaming-video service compete with Netflix, Amazon
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google Play Books improves comic book reading by adding vertical scrolling mode, curated pages for discovery, on Android in coming days, iOS soon  —  Google Improves Comic Book Reading Experience In Play Books For Android  —  Google today launched an upgrade to its Google Play Books store …
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.
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: TOWCenter, Washington Post and Fortune
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
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
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 …
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?
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Vatican puts 2 reporters under investigation in leaks probe  —  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Wednesday it had placed two Italian journalists under investigation in its probe over leaked documents that revealed waste, greed and mismanagement at the highest levels of the Catholic Church hierarchy.
 
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Financial Times:
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
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