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12:15 PM ET, November 19, 2015

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab:
A 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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Guardian to increase north of England coverage with news hub in Manchester  —  Three reporters to move to new team responsible for coverage in north  —  The Guardian is to significantly expand its coverage of the north of England by creating a news hub based in Manchester.
Discussion: @kathviner and @joshhalliday
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 …
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.”
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 …
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
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
In Raqqa, Syria, activist groups continue to cover life under ISIS control amid aerial bombardment  —  Syrian Journalists Risk Death Covering Life Under Airstrikes And ISIS Occupation  —  “All of us are accepting that any one of us will be killed at anytime or anywhere,” one says.
 
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France votes to give government powers to block online communications during state of emergency
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