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7:20 AM ET, September 23, 2014

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 Top News: 
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.
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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 …
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: 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 …
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
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.
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.”
Committee to Protect Journalists:
CPJ urges US to mitigate threats to journalism, newsgathering  —  1600 Pennsylvania Ave N.W.  —  Washington, D.C. 20500  —  Via facsimile: +1 202-456-2461  —  Dear President Obama:  —  The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide …
Hannah Storm / Guardian:
Journalists are becoming propaganda and we must do more to protect them  —  Appearance of John Cantlie in Islamic State video and attacks on BBC staff in Russia highlight growing danger worldwide  —  I met the photojournalist John Cantlie in 2012, at a Frontline Club discussion of journalists' safety.
Discussion: @emmamayalex
 
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
A Tailor-Made Publisher Taking Over Jeff Bezos' Washington Post
Discussion: @markberman and @nytimesbusiness
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
 Earlier Picks: 
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:
The FCC Hasn't Decided How It Will Enforce Net Neutrality
Discussion: FCC.gov and National Journal
Chris Dannen / FastCoLabs:
Can Longform Become A Netflix For Journalism?
Discussion: @nbj914
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Blogging platform Svbtle moves to paid membership, costs $6 per month for new users
Discussion: The Digital Reader
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
AT&T, Chernin buy majority stake in Fullscreen YouTube network, valuing it between $200-300M
Donna M. Airoldi / Street Fight:
Report: Online and Digital Ads to Reach 25% of Local Media Revenues in 2015