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7:30 PM ET, September 21, 2015

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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Tribune Publishing shares plummet 20 percent after company adjusts its 2015 forecast downward  —  Tribune Publishing shares were down more than 20 percent in midday trading on Monday after the company pulled back from an earlier forecast for revenues and earnings — and largely blamed its Southern California papers for the problem.
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
The firing of LA Times publisher Austin Beutner revealed tensions with Tribune CEO Jack Griffin and financial stress for the news organization  —  Firing at Los Angeles Times Focuses Discontent  —  LOS ANGELES — In January, Jack Griffin, the chief executive of Tribune Publishing Company …
Matt Miller / Esquire:
The Onion launches StarWipe, a parody of celebrity gossip sites, led by senior The A.V. Club editor Sean O'Neal  —  ‘StarWipe’ Is The Onion's Answer to Soulless Celebrity Gossip  —  It's like ClickHole, only with way more Bieber and Kardashian.  —  STARWIPE
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
NBC built NewsConnect, an internal newsroom collaboration platform which allows employees to share information and story updates  —  Working together: How NBC built a new tool to improve collaboration across its newsrooms  —  Across all of its platforms, in both digital and broadcast …
Discussion: @mathewi, @vivian and @dubois
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
4chan sold to Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2Channel, an early anonymous online message board in Japan  —  4chan Message Board Sold to Founder of 2Channel, a Japanese Web Culture Pioneer  —  If the Internet is the Wild West, you could call 4chan “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”
Paul Bisceglio / Pacific Standard:
Q&A with Tom Burke, who made a business out of broadcasting his video game playing on Twitch  —  The Business of Playing Video Games  —  Every so often, Tom Burke wakes up and finds that someone has given him $1,000 for playing video games.  He gets smaller amounts many times a day …
Discussion: @mathewi and @pacificstand
Institute for Nonprofit News:
Former Associated Press senior vice-president Sue Cross announced as CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN)  —  Digital Innovator, Former News Executive Sue Cross to Lead INN  —  Encino, Calif., Sept. 21, 2015 - The Institute for Nonprofit News announced today the selection …
Discussion: Nieman Lab, @denisemalan, @inn and @aschweig
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
LinkedIn Editorial was a missed opportunity, as it focused on quantity over quality  —  LinkedIn Editorial: A Missed Opportunity  —  LinkedIn was poised to become a major player in the business news sector.  Instead, the professional social network is stuck with dull editorial content.
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News:
VR content startup Jaunt raises $65M from Disney, other investors  —  Disney Backs Jaunt's $65M ‘B’ Round  —  VR Content Startup Has Raised $100M-Plus  —  Jaunt, a startup that specializes in virtual reality content, said it has netted a $65 million B found led by new investors The Walt Disney Company …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
The Daily Show hires former Circa EIC Anthony De Rosa  —  When “The Daily Show” begins its push to spread comedic news beyond its once-a-day television show this fall, it'll have help from a real newsman: Anthony De Rosa, the former editor in chief of the mobile news startup Circa.
Discussion: @antderosa and Soup
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Apple automatically refunding all purchases of Marco Arment's ad-blocking app Peace  —  Apple refunding all purchases of Peace  —  Apple notified me this afternoon that they'll be proactively refunding all purchases of Peace.  It will probably take a few days to process.
Dan Archer / Ars Technica:
Unclear App Store guidelines are restricting experiments with Virtual Reality and journalism  —  When journalism, virtual reality, and unclear App Store guidelines collide  —  A first-person tale of what happens when app gatekeepers rule on journalism.
Discussion: Medium
 
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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Charter and Time Warner Cable shareholders approve merger, which still needs regulatory approval
Discussion: Variety and Reuters
Diane Bartz / Reuters:
US Copyright Office says that Pandora's pact with Merlin can be used to calculate US royalties for independent musicians
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Michael Finnegan Named COO of Atlantic Media
Discussion: Media Wire Daily and FishbowlDC
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Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed:
Periscope, conceived in Turkey, is taking off there as a reaction to ineffective mainstream media
Discussion: @erhanerdogan
Paul John Scott / postbulletin.com:
Mayo Clinic and Minneapolis Star Tribune form exclusive sponsored content deal with Mayo providing online and print graphics and “health content”
Discussion: @charlesornstein
Mario Garcia / Poynter:
The Washington Post's new website uses a print-inspired hierarchy to capture story importance
Discussion: @drmariorgarcia
Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
University of Toronto program trains professionals to be journalists covering their areas of expertise
Discussion: @freshchilli
 

 
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Lee-Anne Mulholland / The Keyword:
Google files its proposed remedies in the DOJ's search antitrust lawsuit, including letting browser companies have multiple default agreements across platforms

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
A US judge finds NSO Group liable for exploiting a bug in WhatsApp to spy on 1,400 users and that WhatsApp is entitled to sanctions against NSO

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025

 
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