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5:30 PM ET, September 23, 2014

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 Top News: 
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 …
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Dataminr, which detects breaking news on social media, now commercially available to news orgs  —  A New Tool Scours Social Media for Hot Tips  —  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
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.
Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg:
News Corp, Pearson, and Axel Springer among firms that may have to sell their pieces of Russian media under draft law  —  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. …
Discussion: Reuters, New York Times and ITAR-TASS
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
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.
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
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 …
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.
Economist:
Think-tank journalism: more to promote ideas and policy than to inform or expose wrongdoing  —  Think tanks and journalism: the divide between having ideas and reporting on them is dissolving  —  The divide between having ideas and reporting on them is dissolving
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 …
Joan E. Solsman / CNET:
Vevo ramps up original programming, adds over 100 new episodes  —  Vevo original shows are multiplying — and getting animated  —  The streaming service is amping up its own original content with its programming slate so far, finding visitors spend more time when they have more than just slick music videos to dive into.
 
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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
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
 Earlier Picks: 
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Pinterest is a bigger source of traffic referral than Facebook, Twitter for some publications
Discussion: Gigaom and @hannaingber
Jonathan Mahler / New York Times:
Female journalists have been shaping news coverage of the NFL's Ray Rice scandal
Discussion: @lisenstromberg
Jim Romenesko:
Moody's sees “little evidence” that digital subs will help US newspapers and magazines
Discussion: Guardian
Michael Rondon / Folio:
A Look at The FADER's Expansion Plans
Discussion: @foliomag
The Tyee:
The Tyee Names Jane Armstrong Its New Editor-in-Chief
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
2,000 Amazon workers from 4 distribution centers in Germany walk off the job in wage dispute
Discussion: ZDNet