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6:50 PM ET, November 4, 2015

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Financial Times:
Sources: Facebook's Notify app for news alerts to launch next week with dozens of media partners including Vogue, the Washington Post, and CBS  —  Facebook links with media groups to launch news app  —  Facebook is preparing its latest push into news with a new standalone app called Notify …
Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
Verizon, NBA announce marketing deal bringing NBA highlights and more to go90 video service; source says deal is valued at $400M and runs for three years  —  NBA teams up with Verizon on $400M marketing deal  —  Want to catch LeBron on your smartphone?  —  Verizon is hoping all-things-hoops …
Jeff Blumenthal / Philadelphia Business Journal:
Philadelphia Media Network layoffs: 17 at Philly.com, 17 at Daily News, 12 from Inquirer, union leader says  —  Union leader: Philly.com ‘gutted’ by layoffs  —  More than half of Philly.com's editorial staff and 25 percent of Daily News editorial staffers were among the 46 people laid off …
Cork Gaines / Business Insider:
Bill Simmons says his new podcast is “closing in on seven million listens” in debut month  —  Bill Simmons' new podcast is putting up massive numbers  —  It has only been one month since Bill Simmons launched his new podcast, “The Bill Simmons Podcast,” and so far the results have been huge.
Discussion: Stratechery, Fortune and @mgsiegler
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Time Warner Q3: beats estimates with $6.4B revenue, overall revenue up 5% YoY on Warner Bros. and HBO growth  —  Time Warner Results Top Q3 Forecasts, Lifted by HBO, Warner Bros.  —  Time Warner beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and earnings for the third quarter of 2015 …
Stephanie Gleason / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Publishing offers $3M in Freedom Communication's bankruptcy case in exchange for right to bid on Orange County Register  —  Tribune Offers $3 Million to Fund Freedom Bankruptcy Case  —  LA Times publisher eyes bid for Orange County Register  —  Tribune Publishing Co. …
Discussion: Poynter and @bradagreenberg
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Boston Globe Owner Set to Start Health News Website  —  John Henry, the billionaire owner of The Boston Globe, formally unveils a new publication on Wednesday dedicated to coverage of health, medicine and life sciences.  —  The new offering, called Stat, will be edited by Rick Berke …
David Yi / Mashable:
Sources: Lucky magazine, spun off by Conde Nast in 2014 into BeachMint shopping venture, shuts down; staffers dismissed last week  —  Lucky magazine shuts down once and for all, here's why it failed  —  NEW YORK - On Friday, the handful of remaining staffers at The Lucky Group's editorial side …
Brent Lang / Variety:
21st Century Fox Q1: revenue down 6% to $6.08B on weak box office sales; Fox cable revenue up 7% to $3.46B  —  ‘Fantastic Four’ Failure Takes Bite Out of Fox's Earnings  —  The failure of films like “The Fantastic Four” and tricky foreign exchange rates knocked the wind out of 21st Century Fox's quarterly earnings.
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
The Economist adopts time-based ad sales  —  The Economist is ready to move beyond the impression and bet heavily on user attention-based selling as the future.  —  The publisher, which operates a hybrid subscription and ad-funded business model, is offering marketers globally the ability …
Discussion: @econmedia and mUmBRELLA
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Universal and Disney's dominance in entertainment and use of news subsidiaries as promotional vehicles causes concern for some  —  In media universe, the force is strongest with Disney, Universal  —  There has never been a time when so much of American entertainment has been controlled by so few.
Discussion: @brianstelter and @carlquintanilla
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Chernin's Otter Media Aims for More Than $200M Revenue This Year  —  Otter Media, the online video-focused joint venture between the Chernin Group and AT&T, expects to generate more than $200 million in revenue across its business units this year, executives told Variety this week.
Discussion: @jank0
 
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