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7:55 PM ET, September 16, 2015

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Ken Doctor / Politico:

Amazon offers Prime members Washington Post National Digital Edition subscriptions free for six months, then $48 per year — Jeff Bezos (finally) pumps up the Post with Prime — In a potentially game-changing move, Amazon will begin offering free to dirt-cheap subscriptions to The Washington Post …

Benjamin Freed / Washingtonian:
The Washington Post aims to become a nationally dominant paper through Amazon customers

Discussion: Gizmodo, The New York Observer and @washingtonian

Bloomberg L.P.:

Twitter and Bloomberg sign licensing deal increasing Twitter data available in terminals and offering a curated feed of financial tweets — Bloomberg and Twitter Sign Data Licensing Agreement — Bloomberg adds enhanced custom alerts and tools to its Twitter offering

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Media Wire Daily, @vindugoel and USA Today

James Bradshaw / Globe and Mail:

La Presse to drop weekday print edition beginning January 1, 2016, push readers to La Presse+ tablet edition — Quebec's La Presse to scrap weekday print edition to focus on app — La Presse will scrap its weekday print edition starting Jan. 1, staking its future on its popular tablet app …

Discussion: CBC News, Nieman Lab, theprovince.com, FishbowlNY, Montreal, Toronto Star, Talking New Media, CJAD 800, EIN Newsdesk and NetNewsCheck Latest

Open State Foundation:

Open State Foundation has uploaded Politwoops' archive of 1M deleted politician tweets to the Internet Archive — Open State preserves Politwoops' history on the net — In a move to preserve the public record for everyone, Open State has uploaded its complete Politwoops archive …

Discussion: @niemanlab, @openstateeu, Gigaom, Motherboard, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Forbes and Engadget

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

News Corp to Acquire Social Video Ad Platform Unruly for up to $176 Million — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp will acquire social video advertising platform Unruly for up to $176 million, the company said Wednesday. — “Unruly is a feisty and creative company with a start-up sensibility …

Nora Doyle-Burr / Concord Monitor:

Public library in New Hampshire votes to continue supporting Tor for anonymous browsing despite concerns from DHS, police and local government — West Lebanon library to keep backing Tor — From left, Mary Sorens, of West Lebanon, N.H., Carla Gericke, of Manchester, N.H., Jason Sorens …

Discussion: The Verge, Slate, Techdirt, NPR and Fortune

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Warner Bros. Sells Digital Content Distribution Service to Vubiquity as It Trims Costs — Warner Bros. is outsourcing its digital content distribution business as it fights to trim overhead costs. — The studio sold its Digital-End-to-End managed content service to Vubiquity …

Discussion: Multichannel News, Business Wire and Variety

Ben Thompson / Stratechery:

Publishers need to focus on sustainable business models and journalism that works in tandem with that model — Popping the Publishing Bubble — Over the last few weeks and months there has been increasing alarm that today, September 16, is a critical one for publishers — and by critical …

Discussion: @justinnxt, @mathewi, @dgoligorsky, @vwpickard, @jayrosen_nyu and @niemanlab

Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:

Apple's News, which launches today, is the latest in a trend toward distributed content … Today's release of iOS 9 will see the debut of News, the much-anticipated content recommendation app that has been hailed alternatively as a rival to Flipboard and as a potential replacement for every other news app.

Discussion: MacRumors, Wired, @profjeffjarvis, New York Magazine, Vanity Fair and @jacobwe

Papitchaya Boonngok / Associated Press:

Thai journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk forced to resign under pressure from The Nation newspaper after government detainment — Newly freed Thai journalist forced to quit newspaper — BANGKOK (AP) — A Thai journalist just freed from detention by the military government said Wednesday he has resigned under pressure from his newspaper.

Discussion: bangkokpost.com, BBC, ChinaPost.com.tw, The Irrawaddy and The Nation

Firat Alkaç / Hurriyet Daily News:

Turkish magazine Nokta raided, copies of latest issues confiscated after charges of “insulting the Turkish president” and “making terrorist propaganda” — Turkish magazine raided, copies collected for insulting Erdoan … Turkish magazine Nokta has been raided …

Discussion: Reuters, Today's Zaman …, BREITBART.COM, Bugun.com.tr, Cihan Haber Ajans, France 24, BBC and DW.COM

Brian Flood / TVNewser:

ABC News Takes Viewers To Syria With Virtual Reality Storytelling — ABC News becomes the first U.S. news division to launch a virtual reality platform taking viewers directly to where news is happening. — For ABC News VR's inaugural project, ABC News foreign correspondent Alex Marquardt …

Discussion: Variety, TechCrunch, 89.3 KPCC, Re/code, The Verge, ABC News, Wall Street Journal and Digiday

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