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4:25 PM ET, January 23, 2015

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Donald R. Winslow / NPPA:
Sports Illustrated Lays Off All Staff Photographers  —  The remaining six staff photographers at Sports Illustrated magazine were all laid off yesterday.  —  Staff photographers Robert Beck, Simon Bruty, Bill Frakes, David E. Klutho, John W. McDonough, and Al Tielemans were informed …
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
Michael Bloomberg offered to buy the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said the paper not for sale  —  People Are Talking About Michael Bloomberg Buying the New York Times, Including Michael Bloomberg  —  If the former mayor tries, it won't be without its challenges.
Kim Severson / New York Times:
Modern Farmer ceases publication after longstanding battle between founder and primary investor  —  Modern Farmer Ceases Publication  —  Modern Farmer, the 100,000-circulation quarterly and website that tried to link effete urban farmers' market culture with the practicalities of actual farming …
Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Is Times Vulgarity Policy Wise?  Or Full of ‘Slop’?  —  When Jonathan Martin jumped through hoops last week to avoid using a vulgarity in the lead anecdote of his story, some readers let me know they didn't like it.  —  The first two paragraphs of his story on Republican options for 2016 went like this:
Michael Sebastian / AdAge:
Bob Dylan Gives Away 50,000 Copies of His New Album to AARP The Magazine Readers  —  Kind of Like U2's iTunes Strategy  —  Bob Dylan is borrowing a page from U2's playbook to help promote his new album “Shadows in the Night” — although Mr. Dylan's approach is far more analogue than U2's …
Discussion: Mediaite and Associated Press
Gideon Lichfield / Quartz:
How The Economist chose its first female editor-in-chief  —  This post has been corrected.  —  Yesterday The Economist chose Zanny Minton Beddoes to be the first female editor-in-chief in its 171-year history.  “About time,” you might say.  —  But among its peers, the venerable British publication …
USA Today:
Air catalog SkyMall seeks bankruptcy protection  —  The company that produces SkyMall, the in-flight shopping catalog that entices airline travelers with offers for iFetch ball launchers for dogs and mini clap-on alarm clocks, is bracing for a hard financial landing.
Ken Doctor / Capital New York:
Cerberus, Apollo bidding for Digital First Media  —  After one cost-cutting private equity company has spent close to half a decade wielding the knife at Digital First Media, how many new “efficiencies” might a second P.E. buyer find?  That's the question we may soon see answered …
Discussion: Media & Entertainment
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Vice News debuts ‘virtual reality news broadcast’ of US Millions March  —  Digital artist Chris Milk and Spike Jonze's report was filmed at December protest in New York after death of Eric Garner  —  The current wave of interest in virtual reality technology may be fuelled by games …
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Walmart is getting ready to sell its Vudu Spark streaming stick  —  Remember Walmart's very own HDMI streaming stick, which I spotted in the FFC's online database two months ago?  It looks like the retail giant is getting ready to sell its answer to Chromecast: Walmart's Vudu video streaming service …
John McDermott / Digiday:
Sources: Snapchat's Discover feature will include content created by newly hired media team  —  Inside Snapchat's original media ambitions  —  Snapchat wants to be more than just a distribution channel for other media companies; it's planning on becoming a publisher itself.
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Disney's Maker Studios Struggles to Migrate Its Audience To Maker.tv  —  Maker Studios reaches a huge audience on YouTube through videos created by its 50,000-plus creators.  But attracting Web video fans to its own video site, Maker.tv, is proving tougher.
Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Filmmakers are finding more buyers at Sundance as digital firms join traditional buyers  —  Sundance goes digital: Why it's a great time to be a filmmaker  —  You've made a spellbinding drama or a heart-wrenching documentary.  Now what?  —  Now you try to sell it to distributors, at the Sundance Film Festival.
Discussion: New York Times
 
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Eric Athas / Nieman Lab:
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Marc Graser / Variety:
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