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Ken Doctor / Politico:
Tribune to fire L.A. Times publisher Austin Beutner — Tribune Publishing will announce Tuesday the termination of highly regarded L.A. Times publisher Austin Beutner, I've learned. — Beutner's leave-taking may be announced as a resignation. The firing is an unexpected one …
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Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Sources: Tribune fires Austin Beutner as LA Times publisher, CEO over poor financial performance, expensive executive hires — Tribune Publishing dismisses Los Angeles Times publisher and CEO — Get unlimited chicagotribune.com sports content with SportsPlus. Try it today for as low as $0.95/wk.
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The Wrap, @juliemaklat and @gabekahn
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Baltimore Sun publisher Tim Ryan expected to succeed Austin Beutner as LA Times publisher — Austin Beutner out as LA Times publisher in Chicago power play — Here they go again in the culture rift between the Los Angeles Times and its Chicago owners. Tribune Publishing chief Jack Griffin …
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Los Angeles Times, FishbowlNY, Baltimore Sun, @tedrall and The Huffington Post
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Gawker advertising staff rejected a pro-choice ad for women-focused news site Jezebel — Gawker Media: Pro-choice ads are too controversial for us — Jezebel is one of the biggest feminist blogs on the Internet. It's part of Gawker Media, a network famous for pushing the limits of “newsworthy.”
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@moonstompmaggie, @sarahkliff and @petersterne
Dylan Byers / Politico:
New York Times D.C bureau chief Carolyn Ryan moves to senior editor role to focus on 2016 campaign, will be replaced by Elisabeth Bumiller — N.Y. Times D.C. shakeup: Carolyn Ryan out, Elisabeth Bumiller in as bureau chief — Ryan to focus on 2016 campaign
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The Huffington Post, Poynter, FishbowlNY and The Wrap
Susannah Nesmith / Columbia Journalism Review:
Florida's Peter Schorsch fills gaps in state government news coverage with political sites, but ignores journalism's ethics rules — Florida micro-media mogul breaks news, but is it journalism? — Subscribers to Sunburn, an email newsletter for Florida's political class …
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@cjr, @marcacaputo and Context Florida
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Washington Post president and general manager Steve Hills to step down — Stephen Hills, president and general manager of The Washington Post, will leave the newspaper at the end of the year, Post publisher Frederick Ryan announced in a note to employees today.
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Politico
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Adblock Plus officially lands on Android and iOS today as a free browser — Adblock Plus officially lands on Android and iOS today — While Apple's been working on system-level ad blocking for iOS 9, Eyeo, the creator of Adblock Plus has been building its own browser.
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Adblock Plus and …, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Business Insider
Joe Pompeo / Columbia Journalism Review:
In a Pennsylvania hamlet, the only local newspaper, The Orange Street News, is produced by eight-year-old Hilde Lysiak — Is this 8-year-old's newspaper better than yours? — Hilde Lysiak, 8, is learning the basics of journalism through her own monthly newspaper, The Orange Street News.
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@matthew_peddie, @anna_orso, @jbenton and @joepompeo
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Disney Partners With Amazon And Microsoft To Expand Its Digital Movie Service — Despite its name, Disney Movies Anywhere, the studio's cloud-based digital movie service, hasn't really been available anywhere you want to watch its titles. But today, that's beginning to change.
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Media & Entertainment, Home Media Magazine and Globe and Mail
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Kim Dotcom worked on music service with Universal in 2012 that used ad-injection tech to replace 10% of others' ads with ads from his own network — This Was Kim Dotcom's Crazy Plan to Save the Music Business — Kim Dotcom is known to be more than a little eccentric.