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11:20 PM ET, September 23, 2014

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Andrew Khouri / Los Angeles Times:
Layoffs hit Freedom Communications as it ceases publication of L.A. Register  —  Layoffs hit the Orange County Register on Tuesday after owner Freedom Communications ceased publication of its Los Angeles daily five months after it debuted.  —  The number of layoffs wasn't immediately clear …
Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:
Coalition files lawsuit challenging Arizona's ‘nude photo law’  —  A coalition of booksellers and others involved in publishing and distributing images is suing the state of Arizona to overturn a law designed to protect people from the unwanted display of nude photos.
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Lab:
A conversation with David Rose, little magazine veteran and publisher of Lapham's Quarterly  —  When I sat down with John Summers to talk about the publishing strategy of The Baffler, he told me that if I really wanted to understand the business of small magazines, there was one man I simply had to talk to — David Rose.
Discussion: @chrisbeha
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Andy Lack Leaving Bloomberg for New U.S. Government Media Agency  —  Andy Lack, the chairman of the Bloomberg Media Group, is leaving the company and has been named the first CEO of the United States International Communications Agency, part of the federal government.
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Dataminr, which detects breaking news on social media, now commercially available to news orgs  —  Tool Hunts for News in the Din of Twitter  —  Earlier this year, several producers at CNN received an alert from a new digital news-gathering tool that they were testing …
Discussion: @tvnewslab and The Next Web
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Chinese academic sentenced to life in prison after giving interviews to foreign reporters  —  China Sentences Uighur Scholar to Life  —  ALTAY, China — A university professor who has become the most visible advocate of peaceful resistance by ethnic Uighurs to Chinese government policies …
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Why publishers are learning how to buy ads  —  Publishers are used to spending an inordinate amount of energy trying to attract media buyers, but now they're also playing the role themselves.  —  Publishers like Vox Media, BuzzFeed and Complex all have in-house ad-buying capability …
Peter Lauria / BuzzFeed:
TV Ratings Now Focus On Who Will Watch In The Future  —  The start of the fall TV season marks the first real concerted effort by the big four broadcast networks - ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC — to highlight viewers for a show over a full week.The move reflects the shift away from live television viewing …
Discussion: @buzzfeedben
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Only 0.12 percent of all Wikipedia articles contain videos  —  There are millions of articles on Wikipedia, but less than 6000 contain a video.  That's despite long-running efforts to get more video onto Wikipedia.  —  How can you make Wikipedia more attractive to the YouTube generation?
Discussion: Recente blogposts
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.
Chris Davis / Memphis Flyer:
Commercial Appeal Announces Changes, 17 Laid Off  —  A memo circulated to Commercial Appeal employees Sunday, Sept 21 announced that the newspaper would undergo major physical restructuring.  Today 17 layoffs were announced including 13 employees covered by the Memphis Newspaper Guild.
Discussion: Poynter and @wendi_c_thomas
 
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