September 17, 2015

Debate Live Stream Draws Record Numbers

This story, plus one of Canada’s biggest daily newspapers to cease weekday print publication, why the LA Times is crucial to Tribune Publishing, how news sites adjusted after removing reader comments and more, all in today’s media headlines.

Top Stories

Sep 17, 2015

CNN’s Debate Live Stream Draws a Record Crowd

Brian Stelter / CNN Money

Sep 16, 2015

La Presse to Cease Print Editions, Save for Saturdays

CBC News

Sep 16, 2015

View: Why Tribune Publishing Can’t Sell the Los Angeles Times Without Blowing Up the Company

Rick Edmonds / Poynter

Sep 16, 2015

What Happened After 7 News Sites Got Rid of Reader Comments

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab

Media Business

Sep 16, 2015

Altice in Deal to Take Over Cablevision

Andrew Ross Sorkin, Michael J. De La Merced / The New York Times

Sep 17, 2015

Ad Spending Hit Hard in Second Quarter

Bill Cromwell / Media Life Magazine

Sep 16, 2015

News Corporation to Buy Unruly for Up to $176 Million

Emily Steel / The New York Times

Television News

Sep 16, 2015

Journalists Flock To CNN Debate They Could Better Watch From Home

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post

Online Media

Sep 17, 2015

In Two Years, Bleacher Report’s Video Output has Grown to 800 Videos a Month

Ricardo Bilton / Digiday

Sep 16, 2015

Buzzfeed Could Raise Another $100 Million in Current Funding Round

Peter Sterne / Politico Media

Newspaper News

Sep 16, 2015

Daily News Columnist Mike Lupica Out as Zuckerman Swings Ax

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post

Technology & News

Sep 16, 2015

View: Popping the Publishing Bubble

Ben Thompson / stratechery

Sep 16, 2015

ABC News Experiments with Virtual Reality

Kelsey Sutton / Politico Media

Press & Government

Sep 16, 2015

HuffPost: Trump is Still ‘Entertainment,’ Not Politics

James Warren / Poynter

Sep 16, 2015

View: Can We Stop Blaming the Media for Donald Trump? Nope. Not At All.

John Sides / The Washington Post