Some of the best media industry stories from around the web:

• The Guardian | Where did the money go? Guardian buys its own ad inventory (3 min read)
• PageFair | Eight Things From Q3 Worth Knowing (3 min read)
• AdAge | FCC Privacy Plan Could Hamper Verizon’s Data Integration With AOL and Yahoo (3 min read)
• AdMonsters | Secret Society Debates the Future of Television Advertising (6 min read)
• Recode | Snapchat is pushing its publisher content almost out of sight (2 min read)
• The Hill | Privacy please, not lobbyists’ phony pleas for consistency (4 min read)
• New York Magazine | In Virtual Reality, Women Run the World (18 min read)
• AdWeek | The ANA’s New Alliance Wants to Provide the Blueprint for Multicultural Marketing (2 min read)
• MediaPost | The RTB Truth, Well Told (4 min read)
• AdAge | FCC Rules Requiring Opt-In for Location Data Use Are Closer to Reality (4 min read)
• Contently | Inside The Washington Post’s Quest to Fix Ad Tech (7 min read)