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1:20 PM ET, September 23, 2014

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Andrew Khouri / Los Angeles Times:
Freedom Communications ceases publication of L.A. Register  —  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.
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney's Maker Studios Pacts with MiTú to Produce Latino YouTube Content  —  Maker Studios, the YouTube multichannel network owned by Disney, reached an exclusive deal with Latino-focused MCN MiTú to develop original and branded content aimed at the fast-growing U.S. Hispanic market.
Discussion: The Wrap
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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
The Tyee:
The Tyee Names Jane Armstrong Its New Editor-in-Chief  —  Veteran Canadian journalist set to steer ‘the best newsroom in British Columbia.’  —  The new editor-in-chief of The Tyee is the experienced, highly decorated Canadian journalist Jane Armstrong.  She will take over the day-to-day running …
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
A Tailor-Made Publisher Taking Over Jeff Bezos' Washington Post  —  WASHINGTON — Frederick J. Ryan Jr. juggles black-tie invitations, while Jeff Bezos shuns the social limelight for reading about space travel.  —  Former colleagues of Mr. Ryan joke that for him casual Friday is a day without …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
New York Times launches real-time aggregated feed of headlines, tweets, multimedia on homepage  —  Watching what happens: The New York Times is making a front-page bet on real-time aggregation  —  The rhythms of the homepage of NYTimes.com are by now familiar, even a little predictable.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Jonathan Weber out as Managing Editor of The Information  —  Weber out as ME of The Information  —  Weber wrote, “I'm out as managing editor of @theinformation, an abrupt turn of events.  Best of luck to the fine staff there.”  Weber had joined the site earlier this year after being the West Coast bureau chief for Reuters.
Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg:
Springer, Pearson Independence in Russia Tested by Media Bill  —  Russia's planned amendments to media law are threatening independent publications run by companies such as News Corp. (NWSA), Pearson Plc (PSON) and Axel Springer SE in the country, according to the Moscow-based Center for Political Technologies.
Discussion: ITAR-TASS
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Popular 18 year old Libyan radio journalist Tawfiq Ben Saud shot dead following threats  —  Libyan journalist, 18, shot dead after weeks of threats  —  A young Libyan radio journalist who had been receiving death threats for weeks was shot dead in a hail of bullets in Benghazi on 19 September.
Liam Dillon / Nieman Lab:
Behind the plans to turn San Diego's daily newspaper into a non-profit  —  What we know (and don't know) about the plan to make San Diego's daily a nonprofit  —  Editor's note: In San Diego, a philanthropist is talking about buying up the local daily and turning its ownership into a nonprofit model.
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 …
 
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
In big setback for digital radio, court says SiriusXM must pay Turtles for pre-1972 recordings
Discussion: Showbiz411 and Hollywood Reporter
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Audioboo rebrands as AudioBoom and overhauls its iOS app
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Amazon Looking To The Wisdom Of Crowds To Find New Authors
Hannah Storm / Guardian:
Journalists are becoming propaganda and we must do more to protect them
Discussion: @emmamayalex
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Better together: How two St. Louis nonprofit newsrooms are learning to thrive as one outlet
Discussion: @niemanlab
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Pinterest is a bigger source of traffic referral than Facebook, Twitter for some publications
 Earlier Picks: 
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Female journalists have been shaping news coverage of the NFL's Ray Rice scandal
Discussion: @lisenstromberg
Michael Rondon / Folio:
A Look at The FADER's Expansion Plans
Discussion: @foliomag
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
2,000 Amazon workers from 4 distribution centers in Germany walk off the job in wage dispute
Discussion: ZDNet
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Townsquare snaps up hip-hop mag XXL, plans to go digital-only
J.K. Trotter / Gawker:
The (Atlantic) Wire Is Shutting Down
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
MGM Acquires Stake in Mark Burnett/Roma Downey Production Companies, Revives United Artists Banner
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
The FCC Hasn't Decided How It Will Enforce Net Neutrality
Discussion: FCC.gov and National Journal