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8:05 AM ET, September 23, 2014

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Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Apple won't shut down the Beats Music streaming service, but the Beats Music brand may change — Apple's Beats Music Brand May Go Away. Apple's Beats Music Service Is Sticking Around. — Earlier this year, Apple bought Beats Music and Beats Electronics for $3 billion.

Discussion: @pkafka, Mashable, @breakingbytes, @edmundlee, @johnpaczkowski, @ampressman, @sfiegerman, App Advice, @antderosa, AppleInsider, Business Insider and Consequence of Sound

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Beats Music brand will be shut down, product could be rolled into iTunes — Apple Plans To Shut Down Beats Music — Apple will discontinue the streaming music service Beats Music it acquired in May, according to five sources, including several prominent employees at Apple and Beats.

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

An Article on Shonda Rhimes Rightly Causes a Furor — The article on the television producer Shonda Rhimes hadn't yet appeared in Sunday's paper, but the virtual world was ablaze in protest over it on Friday after it was published online. — Written by the longtime TV critic, Alessandra Stanley …

Esquire:

On Fareed Zakaria and plagiarism: anonymous media watchdogs explore CNN's lack of response — CNN DOES NOT GET TO CHERRYPICK THE RULES OF JOURNALISM — The news is evolving. Old media is not evolving with it. … Over the past month, two anonymous journalists have detailed several dozen examples …

Discussion: Poynter, The Week, Politico, The Buttry Diary, @jaredbkeller, @leducviolet, @planetoffinks, @jayrosen_nyu and Inside Cable News

Andrew Khouri / Los Angeles Times:

Los Angeles Register to immediately cease publication — The Los Angeles Register, which launched in April as part Aaron Kushner's bold bet on print newspapers, will cease publication, effective immediately. — Orange County Register co-owner Aaron Kushner announced the decision Monday night in a memo sent to employees.

Discussion: Guardian, LA Observed, @hillelaron and @earleyoc

J.K. Trotter / Gawker:

The (Atlantic) Wire Is Shutting Down — The Wire, formerly known at The Atlantic Wire, is shutting down, according to an internal memo obtained by Gawker. The breaking news site will be folded into the main site of The Atlantic magazine. Co-presidents James Bennett and Bob Cohn sent …

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, @kansasalps, @mathewi, @jbenton, The New York Observer, Capital New York, Talking Points Memo, @mkonnikova, LA Observed, MediaWire Daily, @jktrotter, @thestalwart, @clarajeffery, @adamclarkestes and @b_fung

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

HBO, Amazon Prime and Broadband for $40 a Month at AT&T — It's still nearly impossible to get HBO, or any other pay-TV channel, without subscribing to a pay-TV package that gives you a bundle of channels, whether you want them or not. — But the people who sell you TV are starting to tinker with the model, at least at the margins.

Discussion: Variety and The Verge

Jim Romenesko:

Moody's sees “little evidence” that digital subs will help US newspapers and magazines — Moody's: ‘Our outlook for the U.S. newspapers and magazines sector is negative’ — No surprise: A new report from Moody's Investors Service says the outlook for newspapers and magazines “is negative through at least late 2015.”

Discussion: Guardian

Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:

Better together: How two St. Louis nonprofit newsrooms are learning to thrive as one outlet — In December, St. Louis Public Radio reporters Chris McDaniel and Véronique LaCapra published an investigation into whether Missouri was violating state law by buying drugs to execute prisoners from a company not licensed in Missouri.

Discussion: @niemanlab

Christine Haughney / New York Times:

Pinterest is a bigger source of traffic referral than Facebook, Twitter for some publications — Publications See Pinterest as Key Ally — Autumn is not yet upon us, but Jill Waage, a top editor at Better Homes and Gardens, has already predicted some of the biggest trends of the coming holidays.

Discussion: @hannaingber, Gigaom and Wall Street Journal

Committee to Protect Journalists:

CPJ urges US to mitigate threats to journalism, newsgathering — Dear President Obama: The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide, is writing to express its concern about the effects of intelligence and law enforcement …

Discussion: @quintsimon and The Huffington Post

John Biggs / TechCrunch:

Amazon Looking To The Wisdom Of Crowds To Find New Authors — According to a Kindle Direct Publishing forum user, Amazon is quietly rolling out a way to find diamonds in the proverbial publishing rough. The unnamed project would bring a crowd approach to the acquisition of new titles using …

Discussion: The Digital Reader, Publishers Weekly and Melville House Books