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10:55 AM ET, November 19, 2015

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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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.”
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
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
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
France votes to give government powers to block online communications during state of emergency  —  French members of parliament (MPs) have voted to give the government extra powers to block online communications when the country is under a “state of emergency.”
 
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Scott Stein / CNET:
Meta opens its VR OS, now called Horizon OS, to third parties, and says Asus and Lenovo plan Horizon OS-compatible headsets; Meta plans an Xbox branded Quest

Emilia David / The Verge:
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