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You might have heard: Austin Beutner was removed as Los Angeles Times publisher, leading civic leaders in Los Angeles to ask Tribune to continue the progress made under Beutner
But did you know: The dismissal of Austin Beutner widened the divide between Tribune Publishing and the LA Times (New York Times)
The relationship between Tribune Publishing and the Los Angeles Times was already strained, Ravi Somaiya writes, but the dismissal of former publisher Austin Beutner only widened the divide between the two. Somaiya reports that Tribune’s leadership in Chicago viewed Beutner as “imperious and defiant,” but LA Times employees thought Beutner “represented ambition and optimism after more than a decade of management turnover, layoffs and cost-cutting that had demoralized many employees.” Now, local leaders in Los Angeles are calling upon the Tribune to retain local leadership at the LA Times with someone who will continue to carry out Beutner’s vision.
+ Due in part to its results in Southern California, Tribune lowers its expected revenue for 2015 (Wall Street Journal)
+ Noted: Minneapolis Star Tribune is partnering with Mayo Clinic for a sponsored content deal where Mayo Clinic will provide “health, disease and condition treatment related infographics” (PostBulletin.com); 10 Seattle news organizations including The Seattle Times and InvestigateWest are experimenting with micropayments through a system that allows for-profit publishers to limit access in exchange for a one-time payment and nonprofit publishers to embed a “donate” button in stories (Current); After offering voluntary buyouts to staffers 55 and over with 15 years of service in late August, Gannett is retracting the offer at the Detroit Free Press (Columbia Journalism Review)
Why The Washington Post’s redesigned website includes a print-style hierarchy (Poynter)
The inspiration from The Washington Post’s recently launched homepage redesign comes from a familiar place, Mario Garcia writes: Print. On the new homepage, only a few stories are placed at the top of the page, which Garcia says conveys the top stories readers should know about at the moment in the way a newspaper front page does. Garcia writes: “Readers appreciate curation, which is, after all, a form of hierarchy for content selection.”
At Paris’ Maison des Journalistes, threatened journalists can stay and receive aid for up to 8 months (Quartz)
At Maison des Journalistes in Paris, journalists who receive threats for their work can seek refuge and receive aid. Maison des Journalistes will offer aid for up to eight months, and will help journalists apply for asylum and seek work. Maison des Journalistes in Paris opened in 2002 and is the only such refuge for threatened journalists in the world. In 2014, 31 journalists from 14 countries stayed at Maison des Journalistes.
+ To target new readers in Asia, The New York Times launched a WeChat account (New York Times)
The missed opportunity of LinkedIn Editorial: Why LinkedIn chose to favor quantity over quality (Monday Note)
LinkedIn was in a position to become a major player in business news, Frederic Filloux writes, but instead LinkedIn chose to bet on quantity. Filloux says that choice now means that LinkedIn will likely never become the major force in business news that it could have been. With the hires of Dan Roth and Caroline Fairchild, LinkedIn was expected to develop journalistic content, but instead it’s creating what Filloux calls “dull editorial content.” Filloux writes: “If Quartz or Politico taste like espresso, LinkedIn’s editorial content feels more like American Coffee: cheap, bland, diluted but unlimited refills.”
The creator of the No. 1 ad-blocking app in the App Store is pulling it from the market (Marco.org)
Marco Arment pulled his ad-blocking app Peace from Apple’s App Store on Friday after just 36 hours. In that time, Peace rose to the position of No. 1 paid app. Arment is offering users who paid for Peace refunds, and suggested alternative apps for users who still want to block ads on Apple’s iOS operating system. Arment writes: “I’ve learned over the last few crazy days that I don’t feel good making one and being the arbiter of what’s blocked. … Even though I’m ‘winning,’ I’ve enjoyed none of it.”
+ Related: The rise of apps over the mobile web was likely already cannibalizing ad revenue streams (Atlantic) and publishers say there needs to be a distinction between “bad” advertisements that should be blocked and “good” advertisements (New York Times)
The New York Times is lifting the paywall for 50 of its best stories published in the last 4 years (Poynter)
To celebrate its recent milestone of 1 million digital subscribers, The New York Times is making 50 of its best stories free to read. The stories, which include op-eds, foreign correspondence, investigative journalism, and cultural reporting, were selected by masthead editors and were all published within the last four years. Some highlights from the list: “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk,” columns by David Carr, and “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace.”
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