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4:30 PM ET, September 20, 2015

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Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
With sale of Cablevision to Altice, cable TV pioneers in the Dolan family shift focus to assets spun out earlier: Madison Square Garden and AMC  —  Dolans Cash Out of Cablevision  —  With sale of their company to Altice, family's focus to shift to MSG, AMC
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
Christine Magee / TechCrunch:
Sidewire launches on iOS, offers curated political news and analysis from 100+ journalists, analysts, campaign managers, politicians to help cut through noise  —  Sidewire Is Your Hotline To Political Insight  —  Aiming to help people cut through all of the political noise, Sidewire …
Chava Gourarie / Columbia Journalism Review:
How Broadly, The Skimm, and Refinery29 are mixing feminism with news and politics  —  Fashion, politics, and feminism: The women's magazines for a new generation  —  “Women working at Douglas Aircraft” by Alfred T. Palmer (United States Library of Congress)
Kabir Chibber / Quartz:
Inside Paris' Maison des Journalistes, a refuge where threatened journalists can stay and get aid for up to eight months  —  Inside the world's only sanctuary for exiled journalists  —  PARIS, FRANCE—"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Josh Beckerman / Wall Street Journal:
Tribune Publishing lowers guidance for 2015 earnings, citing Southern California results, days after it fired LA Times publisher  —  Tribune Publishing Lowers Guidance  —  Company cites results in Southern California  —  Tribune Publishing Co. lowered its 2015 guidance, mainly due to results in Southern California.
Chris Haire / Orange County Register:
Vietnamese blogger and dissident Ta Phong Tan released from prison after three years, arrives in US  —  Vietnamese political prisoner arrives in U.S. after release  —  Political dissident Ta Phong Tan entered the lobby of Los Angeles International Airport around 9:40 p.m. Saturday to about 25 cheering supporters.
Discussion: Reuters and New America Media
Anne Helen Petersen / BuzzFeed:
50 year old Tiger Beat plans to reboot with digital in mind but will keep the print magazine as the central focus  —  Tiger Beat Turns 50, But Teen Idols Stay The Same Age … Mark Patricof doesn't seem like the sort of guy who'd have a magazine with the face of Justin Bieber framed …
The Nation:
How trust in Spain's media system is being slowly restored by a small group of media upstarts  —  The Spanish Media Are the Worst in Europe.  These Upstarts Are Trying to Change That.  —  A broad range of leftist media projects committed to democracy and transparency have flourished in recent years.
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Gannett to launch storytelling events in nine cities following success in its Arizona program  —  Gannett takes the idea behind Arizona Storytellers Project nationwide … Next week at the Online News Association's annual conference, a group of journalists from nine Gannett newspapers …
Melody Kramer / Poynter:
Interview with KRCL community radio's Lara Jones on why she's giving volunteer podcasters access to station equipment in exchange for content  —  In Salt Lake City, the community radio station invited the community in to podcast  —  Lara Jones is currently the only full …
Ona Abelis / Brooklyn Magazine:
Interview with video remix artist Elisa Kreisinger on fair use and the importance of defending new digital works  —  What Does Fair Use Mean?:  Talking with Pop Culture Pirate Elisa Kreisinger  —  Video remix artist Elisa Kreisinger doesn't wait for someone to write her a storyline that she wants to watch.
The Atlantic:
Mobile apps were already destroying online ad revenue, and ad blockers are just another, short-term threat  —  The Allure of an Ad-Free Internet  —  Well, that happened fast.  After 36 hours as the No. 1 paid app in the App store, the programmer Marco Arment is pulling his ad-blocker, Peace, from the market.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Layoffs total about 50 staffers at New York Daily News in sports, business, and features  —  More Daily News layoffs as newsroom keeps bleeding  —  The Daily News raised its weekday price from 75 cents to $1.25 last summer.  —  The Daily News swung the ax for a third day …
 
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