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Jeffrey Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Condé Nast to shutter Details magazine after December issue due to decline in print advertising — Condé Nast to Shutter Details Magazine — Publisher's restructuring comes amid print advertising declines — The December issue of Details magazine will be its last …
Discussion:
The New York Observer, The Wrap, WWD, Towleroad, FishbowlNY, The Awl, FishbowlNY, Talking New Media, Ad Age, Folio, Adweek, @ravisomaiya, Racked, Poynter, Mediaite, @rovzar, @michaelbd, @poniewozik, WWD, @longform, @marklotto and The Seattle Review of Books
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
An oral history of the City Room blog at The New York Times and how it helped bring digital speed and voice to the newsroom — How one blog helped spark The New York Times' digital evolution — Last month, The New York Times announced that it was formally shutting down City Room, the metro blog that it had been running since 2007.
Discussion:
@laurahazardowen and @benmullin
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The New York Times offers readers email newsletters to keep up with Paris attack articles — The New York Times is using Paris email updates to explore a new method of interaction with readers — While you were looking at The New York Times' coverage of the Paris terrorist attacks …
Jocelyn McClurg / USA Today:
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Johnson win National Book Awards — NEW YORK — Ta-Nehisi Coates won the National Book Award for non-fiction Wednesday night for Between the World and Me, the searing best seller about being black in America. — He dedicated the book to his friend from Howard University …
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GalleyCat, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Huffington Post, New Republic, Bookmarks, Guardian and The Week
Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
YouTube to pay legal fees for a few video creators who are targets of unfair DMCA takedown demands — YouTube to Pay Fees for Some Video Makers to Fight Takedowns — WASHINGTON — Since its inception, YouTube has been embroiled in long and bitter battles over copyright infringement.
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@ceciliakang, Google Public Policy Blog and Electronic Frontier Foundation
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Countries differ in support for press freedom, especially for reporting on national security — A new Pew report finds that beliefs in the freedom of the press vary substantially by country, with support for both free speech and a free press “contingent on the topic.”
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Pew Research Center's …, Vox, @pewresearch, Pew Research Center and The Hill
Casey Newton / The Verge:
Vine debuts audio remix feature, so you can grab sound from other Vines to use in your own — Vine adds native audio remixing to help memes spread — In August, Vine said it planned to “strengthen the connection between music and Vine,” rolling out tools to add music to video clips and a …
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Vine Blog, Tech Times, SlashGear, Mashable, The Next Web, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
Cleve R. Wootson Jr / The Charlotte Observer:
Operator of two sites specializing in pirated music, RockDizMusic.com and RockDizFile.com, gets three years in prison and must pay $48K restitution — Music piracy case sends Charlotte man to federal prison for 3 years — Rocky Ouprasith ran the nation's second largest illegal music file-sharing site
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Washington Post, U.S. Department of Justice, The Daily Dot, The Charlotte Observer and TorrentFreak
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Hoodline raises $1.6M to expand its tools for neighborhood news, listings, and calendars — To Go After Local Neighborhood News And Marketplaces, Hoodline Raises $1.6M — One of the most sought-after, but never quite dominated, frontiers in online media and marketplaces has been centered on local communities.
Discussion:
@ted_williams, @rabois and @frankba
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
Gawker's Kinja retreat is more evidence publishers struggle as tech companies — Gawker the tech company is back to being just Gawker the media company. — Alongside the news that it's shifting its coverage to focus on politics, Gawker said that it's also abandoning its pipe dream …
Discussion:
@rafat and @darrenwillsher
Michael Zhang / PetaPixel:
Reuters policy change requires photographers to submit original JPEGs with minimal processing instead of images from RAW files — Reuters Issues a Worldwide Ban on RAW Photos — Reuters has implemented a new worldwide policy for freelance photographers that bans photos that were processed from RAW files.
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The Verge, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, @jamesliamcook and THE BARON
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Financial Times journalists vote for industrial action over pensions — NUJ members give 92% backing for action amid claims that changes will deplete pension fund by £4m in cost-saving move by new owners Nikkei — Financial Times journalists have voted in favour of taking industrial action …
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Trust.org and Talking Biz News