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7:10 AM ET, September 28, 2015

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Jeremiah Patterson / Online News Association:
The Wall Street Journal, reported.ly, Baltimore Sun and BBC News take home 2015 Online Journalism Awards  —  LOS ANGELES — Coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, the Baltimore riots in the wake of Freddie Gray's death and the shootings in Canadian Parliament took top honors Saturday night …
Agence France-Presse:
Israel suspends officer over assault of AFP journalists on West Bank  —  Israeli military takes action against officer after footage emerges showing journalists had equipment smashed and confiscated  —  The Israeli military has suspended the officer in charge during an incident in the West Bank …
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Johnny Harris / Vox:
Behind El Paquete, a service that downloads and then hand delivers media content weekly in Cuba for $1-$3 a week  —  This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify - all without the internet  —  In Cuba there is barely any internet.  Anything but the state-run TV channels is prohibited.
Isaac Salier-Hellendag / Facebook:
Facebook rolling out redesigned Notes with options for images, captions, other formatting  —  Updates for Facebook Notes  —  We're rolling out an update to make notes on Facebook more beautiful and customizable.  Notes are now an even better way to write a longer post and share with anyone …
Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz:
How the free online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy manages to stay authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-date  —  This free online encyclopedia has achieved what Wikipedia can only dream of  —  The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be the most interesting website on the internet.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Sources: YouTube finalizing plans to bundle Music Key and ad-free videos for $10/month, could launch at end of October  —  YouTube Is Prepping Its Subscription Launch: Two Services, One Price  —  YouTube, which spent the first 10 years of its life as a free service, is getting ready to start selling tickets.
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
Esquire's new standalone archive features 50K articles going back to 1933  —  How Esquire built Esquire Classic, a new standalone digital archive  —  Esquire's first issue was published in the autumn of 1933 featuring a dispatch from Cuba by Ernest Hemingway.
Jo Ellison / Financial Times:
Since Vogue's online relaunch in August 2014, it has grown audience figures by 80 percent, with 4M uniques in the last two weeks  —  Vogue goes viral  —  What happens when the world's glossiest magazine goes digital?  Jo Ellison reports from inside Vogue.com
Libby Plummer / Yahoo! News:
BBC To Launch ‘iPlayer For Children’ Tablet App In 2016  —  The BBC is set to release a dedicated version of its iPlayer app designed for children in 2016.  —  BBC iPlayer for Children will come in the form of a tablet app for iPad and Android devices and will make it easier for youngsters …
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business:
Netflix plans to serve as its own studio for more shows, strengthening its control over distribution rights  —  Netflix to Make More Shows of Its Own  —  Streaming service wants to produce and own more programs  —  Shift would help company offer same lineup of shows worldwide
 
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