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8:45 PM ET, October 11, 2015

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New York Times:
Source: Apple disables Apple News in China, likely to avoid requirement to censor content  —  Apple Is Said to Deactivate Its News App in China  —  HONG KONG — Apple has disabled its news app in China, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation, the most recent sign …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Washington Post's Jason Rezaian sentenced in Iran; verdict is unknown  — A verdict has been issued in the espionage trial of jailed Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian  —  (CNN)An Iranian court has handed down a verdict in the espionage trial of jailed Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian …
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Interview with The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet on the news org's finances, digital rivals, Jill Abramson, more  —  Dean Baquet: ‘My goal is to keep the number of reporters really high at the New York Times’  —  The NYT executive editor on his paper's global appeal …
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
Dish and Tegna reach a multiyear carriage deal, ending 24-hour blackout on 46 TV stations in 38 markets  —  Dish Network, Tegna Reach Deal Ending Station Blackout in 38 Markets  —  Dish Network is restoring 46 Tegna-owned network affiliate stations to its lineup, ending a more than 24-hour blackout in 38 markets.
Discussion: The Wrap and Business Wire
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Longest Shortest Time lets new parents record and share their own stories for its podcast  —  The Longest Shortest Time brings listeners' voices into its podcast with a dedicated app  —  New parenthood is a time of sleep deprivation and uncertainty.  Hillary Frank tells a story …
Sandip Roy / Firstpost:
Images on social media, some fake, encourage communal violence and feed media distrust in India  —  Welcome to Digital India: Communal revolution will be WhatsApped from Muzaffarnagar to Dadri  —  We are not a country of beggars and elephants and snakecharmers.  —  This is a new India of Whatsapp and smartphones and MyGov.in.
Vanessa Quirk / TOWCenter:
How Lore, an indie podcast on real life scary stories, reached 2M downloads within five months  —  The Curious Success of Lore: A Case Study  —  If you've been following my blog posts, you know I have been featuring interviews with key players in the podcasting sphere — from Gimlet's Matt Leiber to This American Life's Seth Lind.
Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Turkey temporarily bans media coverage of terrorist attack in Ankara; Twitter and Facebook reportedly inaccessible  —  Ankara terror attack: Turkey censors media coverage of bombings as Twitter and Facebook ‘blocked’  —  The government has issued a ban on broadcasting footage of the blast at a peace rally
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Three New Jersey newsrooms start using Hearken, a platform that lets audiences choose reporting topics  —  Should newsrooms go straight to their readers to decide what to report on next?  That's the idea behind Hearken.  The platform was founded by Jennifer Brandel as an expansion of WBEZ's Curious City …
Discussion: Poynter
Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter Is Planning Company-Wide Layoffs for Next Week  —  Kimberly White / Getty Images Entertainment  —  Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO of Twitter on Monday, and a big reason he got the job was that as a co-founder, Dorsey isn't afraid to make the tough, necessary decisions.
 
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