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Vanguardia, Ecuador’s only weekly newsmagazine, closed after the government passed a controversial media law that opponents say will stifle investigative journalism.

As the last managing editor of the weekly Life magazine, Mr. Graves strove to keep an American institution afloat in its turbulent final years.

An internal memo widely circulated on the Internet disclosed plans to sell the magazine and focus on The Daily Beast.

Troy Young, 45, will be the company’s first president of digital media operations, responsible for all aspects of its 26 online properties.

Though the graveyard of journalism is littered with popular science magazines, a new one, Nautilus, emerges with the goal of being “a New Yorker version of Scientific American.”

The company said it hoped to distribute content through partnerships with Yahoo, AOL and Twitter.

Wolfgang Büchner, the former top editor at the newswire Deutsche Presse-Agentur, will work at integrating two highly autonomous enterprises.

Mary Thom, 68, a renowned intellectual in the women’s movement who worked at Ms. magazine, was killed on Friday in Yonkers.

Philadelphia Magazine’s article “Being White in Philly” provoked a rebuke from the mayor, angry comments and the threat of a boycott, as well as a sales bump.

A 25,000-word article on the nation’s health care system appears to be on course to become Time magazine’s best-selling cover in nearly two years.