Mediagazer: Bruce R. Brugmann, one of the last of the alt-weekly lions, is calling it quits. Sort of. (Danelle Morton/CJR)

1:20 PM ET, September 11, 2012

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9/11 anniversary forgotten on the front page of today's New York Times — How do you mark the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks? For some papers in the cities where the attacks took place, the answer is subtle: It's time to move on. At The New York Times and the New York Post, Sept. 11, 2012 is just another day.

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlDC, Capital New York, FishbowlNY, Gawker, @propublica, @dylanbyers, @dylanbyers, @thescottcohen, @andrewphelps, @pwallen, @yasmineelsabawi, @niemanlab and The Newspaper Guild

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

How to Cover the 11th Anniversary of 9/11? — The pain, the outrage, the loss - these never fade. The amount of journalism, however, must. This is the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001 - that infamous date in the history of New York, the nation and the world.

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, The Huffington Post, The Awl and Alabama Public Radio

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

NBC's ‘Today’ Skips 9/11 Moment Of Silence For Kardashian Interview — At 8:46 AM, in New York City and at the White House in Washington DC, there was a moment of silence to remember when the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In New York, the NYPD, FDNY …

Discussion: Mediaite, Daily Download and The Huffington Post

Jeremy Peters / The Caucus:

A Journalist With Rare Access to Obama Had to Play by Quote Rule — Michael Lewis, the best-selling author of “Moneyball” and “The Big Short,” was granted extraordinary access to President Obama for his latest article in Vanity Fair. — But with that access came one major condition.

Discussion: New York Times, @nytfridge, @dangillmor and Alabama Public Radio

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Julian Assange threatened legal action over WikiLeaks documentary — Julian Assange threatened legal action against a film festival in an attempt to pressure them not to show a documentary on the history of WikiLeaks. Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, threatened to sue the South by Southwest …

Discussion: Capital New York, @freezingkiwi, @niallstanage, @davidallengreen and @davidallengreen

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

About 3,000 former Hearst interns join class action lawsuit — Diana Wang's lawsuit against Hearst has become a class-action lawsuit, and “may be decided as soon as early 2013,” Kayleen Schaefer reports. Wang served as an unpaid intern for Harper's Bazaar, which Hearst owns.

Marco Arment / Instapaper Blog:

9to5 — Last week, 9to5mac published this article in which the author intentionally derided me and Instapaper, called it “Instascraper”, and initially accused Instapaper of being responsible for the now-debunked “FBI” UDID leak. Despite my attempts to get them to correct what they wrote, they refused.

Discussion: New York Times, @iconmaster, @benjaminjackson and 9to5Mac

Matt Buchanan / BuzzFeed:
How To Get Banned From Instapaper

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, @ianbetteridge, @shortformernie, @suyash, @evilprguy, @mattbuchanan and @andrewphelps

Robert Mankoff / The New Yorker Blog:

Nipplegate: Why the New Yorker Cartoon Department Is About to Be Banned from Facebook — The New Yorker has a Facebook page for our cartoons, which a lot of you like, or maybe it's just one person with a lot of time on their hands, liking the page over and over again. But in any case, it's a whole lotta like.

Discussion: LA Observed, FishbowlNY, Guardian, Media Decoder, WebProNews, Gothamist, PandoDaily, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Gawker and Betabeat

Danelle Morton / CJR:

Bruce R. Brugmann, one of the last of the alt-weekly lions, is calling it quits. Sort of. — Bruce B. Brugmann is a stubborn guy who sticks to his point of view, even as the world he helped build is disappearing. Fitting then to sit with him late in June in the cavernous warehouse offices …

Discussion: Forbes and TechCrunch

Craig Silverman / Poynter:

Journalism's Summer of Sin marked by plagiarism, fabrication, obfuscation — Fall will mark the end of journalism's Summer of Sin, when a cavalcade of plagiarism, fabrication and unethical recycling damaged several careers and publications. — In many cases, these incidents …

Discussion: Melville House Books and Gatekeeper

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch promotes NI top exec to News Corp chief technical role — Rupert Murdoch has chosen News International's top technology executive to set News Corporation's global strategy for digital publishing and to manage the technical end of the demerger of the media company into two separately listed businesses.

Discussion: Press Gazette and The Wrap

Cynthia Cotts / The New York Observer:

New York Times Union Reps Back in Talks with Management Over Contract — Negotiations over the New York Times union contract started up again this week, and labor and management are already at loggerheads, with union members fuming over the “disrespect” they've been shown so far.