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11:30 PM ET, October 1, 2017

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Jonathan Kandell / New York Times:
S.I. Newhouse Jr., Publishing Icon Who Ran Condé Nast, Dies at 89  —  S.I. Newhouse Jr., who as the owner of The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Architectural Digest and other magazines wielded vast influence over American culture, fashion and social taste, died on Sunday at his home, a family spokesman said.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Projects supporting local journalism are increasing, showing that funders, foundations, and news consumers are taking the crisis in local news seriously  —  The situation is sickeningly familiar to anyone who works on — or reads — a metropolitan daily newspaper, whether it's in New Orleans …
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Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
The Center for Cooperative Media catalogs 44 ongoing collaborations across 500+ newsrooms, mostly in the US but also in Europe  —  Among the cool collaborative journalism projects of the last couple years: the Panama Papers, Electionland.  The Center for Cooperative Media …
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:
Some overseas publishers are increasingly targeting US readers via Facebook, making money in niches, using cheaper labor and sometimes plagiarized content  —  Thanks to the rise of platforms like Facebook and Google, a growing amount of information being created for Americans is coming from overseas.
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Dhrumil Mehta / FiveThirtyEight:
Compared to other US natural disasters in the past few weeks, Hurricane Maria has had less coverage online and on TV  —  While Puerto Rico suffers after Hurricane Maria, much of the U.S. media (FiveThirtyEight not excepted) has been occupied with other things: a health care bill that failed to pass …
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Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times:
Mark Zuckerberg's “both sides” argument is a flimsy defense of Facebook's failure to limit the spread of systematic misinformation during 2016 election  —  Responding to President Trump's tweet this week that “Facebook was always anti-Trump,” Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook …
Tim Wu / Knight First Amendment Institute:
The First Amendment fails to protect speech from new tactics like information flooding and online harassment, especially when government aligns with trolls  —  The First Amendment was a dead letter for much of American history.  Unfortunately, there is reason to fear it is entering a new period of political irrelevance.
Bill Shea / Crain's Detroit Business:
Founders of The Athletic, a network of ad-free paywalled sports sites with $48/year subscriptions, say they need 10,000-12,000 subs per city to be profitable  —  - The Athletic Detroit launched in June  — Co-founder says site could be profitable within a year  — Paywall site is hiring major journalists
Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Apple's video content strategy: slow and deliberate approach led by experienced ex-TV execs who pass on most scripts and bid on high profile shows  —  The world's biggest company is officially taking meetings as everyone from Jennifer Aniston to Steven Spielberg salivates over selling the first big show.
Jacqueline Williams / New York Times:
Australian Parliament expected to pass legislation eliminating separation of print and broadcast companies; critics cite consolidation and political favors  —  SYDNEY, Australia — Most of Australia's newspapers, radio stations and television broadcasters are controlled by only a handful of owners …
 
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Getty Images bans images retouched to change body shape or weight as of October 1 in response to French law requiring labels on retouched photos
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