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7:45 AM ET, September 12, 2014

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Dan Shanoff / Nieman Lab:

Wearables could make the “glance” a new subatomic unit of news — Next year will be my twentieth in digital news. From the start, I had an underlying disposition that digital news consumers — sports or otherwise — wanted their content easily digestible: brief, formatted, convenient.

Discussion: @sarahmarshall, TinyLetter and ZDNet

Leo Kelion / BBC:
Yahoo News Digest's Nick D'Aloisio describes its strategy and plans for Apple Watch and other wearables

Discussion: VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge and Mashable

Myles Tanzer / BuzzFeed:
News apps were absent from Apple's Watch presentation, but Yahoo and Circa are building them

Discussion: Nieman Lab, @adamcahan and VentureBeat

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

BBC denies plan in place to double licence fee for independent Scots — The BBC has stood by its position of not reporting the impact that Scottish independence would have on its services. — It comes after The Guardian today reported that the corporation had kept secret an internal study revealing …

Tara Conlan / Guardian:

Independent Scotland ‘faces doubling of BBC licence fee’ — The BBC says it must maintain its impartiality and will not comment on any issue which might sway the vote — The BBC is under political pressure to reveal details of a highly charged internal study which found that viewers …

Discussion: Press Association

Tom McGeveran / Capital New York:

Finanical Times to debut big redesign Monday — The Financial Times will hit newsstands Monday with its first major redesign in seven years. And between the lines (set in a new typeface, called Financier, developed by rockstar New Zealand type designer Kris Sowersby) it's possible to read …

Lewis Blackwell / The Drum:

Creatives, it's time we do something about Google and its power over us and our work — A colleague has been burgled while away for the day. The fourth time in just a few months. The thief came through the front window in broad daylight, chiselled out the security bolts before entering …

David Bauder / Associated Press:

Networks say they're cutting back on Rice video — NEW YORK (AP) — At least six television networks said Thursday they plan to stop or minimize airings of video showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice striking his then-fiancee and knocking her unconscious, footage that has called …

Discussion: Mediaite

Jeremy Barr / Capital New York:

Times Book Review adds 12 new ‘Best Seller’ lists — The New York Times Book Review is adding 12 new monthly lists, part of a larger overhaul of the storied arbiter of literary success, it was announced Thursday morning. — The new “Best Seller” lists will include subjects like humor, travel, family and animals.

Discussion: GalleyCat, Melville House Books, Publishers Weekly and NetNewsCheck Latest

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Jill Abramson on What Happened at the New York Times, and What She's Doing Next: The Full Code/Media Interview — Jill Abramson says she can't explain, precisely, why she was fired from the New York Times' top editing job in May. But she's happy to talk about it.

Discussion: @leerichardson and @pkafka

Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:

IndieWeb advocates launch Known so bloggers can be social and still control their content — The founders of Known have launched an open-source web publishing tool that uses a number of IndieWeb standards to give users control over their content, instead of handing it and all the related data …

Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:

YouTube Alone Brings In 20% Of Digital Video Ad Revenue — When it comes to ad dollars moving into the red-hot online video market, YouTube is king. But it's feeling pressure from potential digital usurpers. — YouTube will bring in $1.13 billion in 2014 video ad revenue …

Discussion: MediaPost, Los Angeles Times and Reuters

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

Refocusing on revenue: How The Lens is dealing with budget shortfalls in New Orleans — Most students in New Orleans now attend charter schools after the widespread damage caused to the city from Hurricane Katrina. That presents a challenge for most news organizations because there are …

Discussion: Washington Post, @derekwillis, @a_l, @a_l, @grdodgemedia and The Texas Tribune

Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:

Why a Hit TV Show Got Canceled: Its Fans Were Too Old — ‘Longmire’ Is Latest Victim of Industry's Focus on Young Viewers, Content Ownership — When a television show is consistently popular, its reward usually isn't getting canceled. — But that is what happened to “Longmire” …

Ben Fischer / New York Business Journal:

Outbrain, Taboola CEOs talk about how they will handle new competition from Yahoo, Facebook — The giants are coming for New York content-recommendation startups Taboola and Outbrain, who have battled each other for years but now see Silicon Valley's biggest names in their rear-view mirrors.

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

How Meridith Valiando Rojas Turns YouTube Celebrities into Concert Stars: The Full Code/Media Interview — You can have Beyonce and U2. Meridith Valiando Rojas has our2ndlife and lohanthony. — Who? Exactly, says Valiando Rojas, who doesn't want you to know who those people are …