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4:15 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 …
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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
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  —  La Presse, the Montreal-based daily newspaper, will scrap its print edition from Monday to Friday starting in January, the newspaper announced on Wednesday.
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.
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 …
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.
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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 …
Jasper Jackson / Guardian:
US online publisher Refinery29 to begin international rollout in UK  —  Ex-Endemol Shine executive Kate Ward to head branch of online company that focuses on fashion, lifestyle and beauty, with office to also open in Germany  —  US online lifestyle publisher Refinery29 is launching …
Andy / TorrentFreak:
Kim Dotcom gets support fighting US extradition in Megaupload copyright case from Larry Lessig  —  Presidential Candidate Lawrence Lessig Steps Up To Assist Kim Dotcom  —  After failing in a last ditch attempt to have their extradition hearing delayed once again, next week Kim Dotcom …
Discussion: Techdirt
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 …
Mark Warren / Esquire:
How war correspondent C.J. Chivers of The New York Times decided it was time to stop going to war  —  Why the Best War Reporter in a Generation Had to Suddenly Stop  —  After fourteen years of being immersed in the bloody wars of our era, C.J. Chivers came home.
 
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