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Jonathan Lansner / Orange County Register:
Freedom Communications, owner of Orange County Register, files for bankruptcy, second time in 6 years; CEO Rich Mirman, local investors hope to gain control — With bankruptcy filing, local group bids for ownership of Freedom Communications — Freedom Communications Inc. …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Grantland's journalistic innovations: a focus on the “so what” and “now what” of news, and writers who roamed across subject areas — Why Grantland mattered to journalism — ESPN shut down Grantland, its boutique sports and pop culture site, on Friday.
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@rmc031 and @jayrosen_nyu
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Bob Lefsetz / Lefsetz Letter:
Distribution without talent sets up companies for failure, which is why ESPN had to shut down Grantland — Grantland — We can debate the financial viability of “Grantland” all day long. But we cannot debate the fact that the site was synonymous with Bill Simmons, and without him it's toast.
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@fcollective, Hunter Walk, @joshelman, @adamsinger and @rezendi
ESPN Media Zone:
ESPN suspends publication of Grantland, effective immediately
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Instagram Builds Its Own Version of Snapchat Live Stories — Instagram is taking cues from Snapchat and Twitter with its latest update — curated content streams for specific events, in this case, Halloween. — If you open the Instagram app in the U.S. on Saturday, you'll see a new prompt …
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Ellen Barry / New York Times:
2 Men Who Published Writings Critical of Extremism Are Stabbed in Bangladesh — NEW DELHI — Two businessmen who had published the works of Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi-American known for his critical writings on religious extremism, were stabbed on Saturday by groups of men in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, the police said.
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BuzzFeed, @deborahblum, @ellenbarrynyt, Los Angeles Times, CNN, Agence France-Presse, TIME, Associated Press, BBC and NPR
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Harvard's Law School Library is digitizing more than 40M pages of legal decisions, free access to the entire collection to be available online in 2017 — Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age — Shelves of law books are an august symbol of legal practice …
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TeleRead, Beyond Search and Techdirt
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Critics question LA Times' funding its education reporting through foundations, including charter-school advocate The Broad Foundation — Foundations fund L.A. Times' education reporting. A conflict? — The Los Angeles Times announced what seemed like good news for its readers in August …
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@mzinshteyn, @rweingarten, @kaplanlarry, @jackshafer, Diane Ravitch's blog, @tvnewslab and @romenesko
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Kurt Wagner / Re/code:
Twitter's TV Commercial Is Just Like Twitter: Full of Content That's a Little Hard to Follow — Twitter's TV Commercial Is Just Like Twitter: Full of Content That's a Little Hard to Follow — Twitter has a new television commercial that perfectly sums up Twitter.
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CNET, BBC, Engadget, The Next Web and Adweek
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Ed Silverman of Pharmalot on building longevity — and audience loyalty — in blogging — It's only fitting that a blog about pharmaceutical companies would be adept at staving off death. — For almost a decade, Ed Silverman has gained a reputation for his encyclopedic knowledge of the world …
Simon Houpt / Globe and Mail:
Rogers is pulling premium fashion magazine Flare from newsstands next year, says that channel isn't effective for reaching younger readers — Rogers pulling Flare magazine from newsstands next year — Flare magazine, one of Canada's premium fashion monthlies aimed at millennials …
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Chialun Huang / World News Publishing Focus by WAN-IFRA:
French documentary website Spicee has attracted 800 subscribers in its first four months, 35% are under 30, 20% outside of France — Vice with virtue, new documentary website Spicee takes off in Paris — It was 7 pm on a recent Friday evening in Paris. The small, crowded office of Spicee …
Lucinda Southern / Digiday:
Forget short attention spans, The Economist is going long on digital video — While most publishers are trying to figure out how to get video shorter to distribute on platforms like Facebook and Snapchat, The Economist is betting on a long-form approach. — Its 4-month-old …
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Newspapers taken over in Turkey are printing again, and they're now pro-government — A protester holding a placard demonstrates across the street from the headquarters of a media company in Istanbul, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. Police in Istanbul have carried out a dawn raid at the building …
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