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1:45 PM ET, November 18, 2015

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Jeffrey Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast to shutter Details magazine after December issue due to decline in print advertising  —  Condé Nast to Shutter Details Magazine  —  Publisher's restructuring comes amid print advertising declines  —  The December issue of Details magazine will be its last …
John Herrman / The Awl:
Memo from Gawker Exec Editor John Cook: Gawker will focus on 2016 campaign, some staffers will leave, Valleywag, Defamer, The Vane, Flight Club, more will fold  —  Accounts Disabled … From inside Gawker: “We're finding out who got laid off by looking at the list of disabled Slack accounts.
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Noah Kulwin / Re/code:
Gawker Media's New COO Is Josh Albertson, Co-Founder of Curbed  —  Josh Albertson, co-founder of Vox Media-owned* Curbed, is joining Gawker Media as its new COO.  He replaces Scott Kidder, who was part of Gawker for the last decade.  Albertson confirmed the news to Re/code.
Peter Sterne / Politico:
Nick Denton memo lists plans for 7 Gawker properties, including more video, Gizmodo overhaul, Jezebel expanded focus, joining Apple News starting with Deadspin
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Rdio had more than $190M in secured debt and about $30M of unsecured debt when it filed for bankruptcy, was losing $2M per month  —  Rdio Was Losing $2 Million Each Month Before Bankruptcy  —  The streaming company owes about $220 million to creditors.  —  On Monday, Rdio declared Chapter …
Joe Drape / New York Times:
Source: Yahoo added to fantasy sports sites inquiry as New York attorney general issues subpoena to company  —  End Sought to Fantasy Sites in New York; Yahoo Is Said to Be Added to Inquiry  —  The New York State attorney general sought an injunction in state court on Tuesday to prohibit …
BBC:
BBC sets out plans to deliver £150 million savings  —  The BBC is today setting out details of how we plan to save £150 million to address a shortfall in funding identified earlier this year.  —  The shortfall has arisen because as more people use BBC iPlayer …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Condé Nast found guilty of contempt of court over prejudicial phone-hacking trial article written by Michael Wolff for British GQ  —  GQ publisher in contempt of court with phone-hacking article  —  Condé Nast published magazine article that risked prejudice to trial of Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, judges rule
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
How Mashable is memorializing those who died in the Paris attacks with a Twitter account, @ParisVictims  —  “In 140 characters, a life”: How Mashable is using Twitter to commemorate the victims of the Paris terrorist attacks  —  News of the terrorist attacks in Paris broke late Friday afternoon …
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Univision Launches Streaming Service for $5.99 a Month  —  Spanish language network's streaming service debuts as company pursues IPO  —  Univision Communications Inc. is launching a $5.99-a-month streaming service dubbed “Univision Now” that will allow consumers to stream …
Chris Dixon / Medium:
What media firms can learn from the PC video game industry's embrace of freemium models, remixes, mods, and crowdsourcing  —  Lessons from the PC video game industry  —  The future of media is here—it's just not evenly distributed  —  The success or failure of tech and media products depends …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
YouTube Kids app for iOS and Android is now available in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the UK  —  YouTube Kids, the family-friendly video app, is now available outside the US  —  YouTube Kids, the offshoot of YouTube's main app that focuses on family-friendly videos, is expanding beyond the United States.
 
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Rajiv Pant named top technology officer at Tribune Publishing
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Luke Westaway / CNET:
Sky unveils Sky Q 4K ready set-top-box and service for premium subscribers with live and on-demand content, touch remote, available early 2016
Nicole Winfield / Associated Press:
Vatican leaks probe: one journalist refuses to answer questions, second refuses to appear for questioning; both cite Italian law protecting reporters
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Guardian thinks customized ads can stem ad blocking
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Mahita Gajanan / Guardian:
New York Review of Books archive acquired by New York Public Library
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Former Engadget editor Marc Perton joins IBT Media as editorial director of company's tech verticals, will oversee creation of new tech-centric sites
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Fusion CEO Isaac Lee will also be chief news and digital officer of Univision
 

 
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Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta details Llama 3: 8B- and 70B-parameter models, a focus on reducing false refusals, and an upcoming model trained on 15T+ tokens that has 400B+ parameters

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google announces a new Platforms and Devices team overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, Photos, and more, to integrate AI across its products, led by Rick Osterloh

Ryan Morrison / Tom's Guide:
Microsoft researchers introduce VASA-1, an AI model that creates a realistic talking face video from a portrait photo and an audio file, in research preview
 
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