Mediagazer: The newsonomics of Pricing 201 — Don't call it a price increase. (Ken Doctor/Nieman Journalism Lab)

3:40 AM ET, October 1, 2012

Top News:

Challenging the Claims of Media Bias — In the last few days, conservatives have become agitated about Mitt Romney's drop-off in the polls. So did they think the stumble was because of the ill-fated “47 percent” slip of the lip, or the hasty effort to gain a political edge after the death …

Discussion: Pressing Issues

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Paul Ryan breaks ‘no whining rule’ — On Wednesday, Mitt Romney told CBS News that he doesn't worry about media bias, signalling that the campaign was abandoning a blame-the-media strategy it had courted a week earlier. The very same day, senior Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie told Fox & Friends …

Discussion: Politico

Guy Lucas / Newsroom With A View:

The paywall paradox — In his address to the Arizona Newspapers Association, Steve Buttry summed up the argument against newspaper websites setting paywalls or pay meters (and it is just newspapers; you never hear of TV stations debating whether to charge for access to their sites).

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, @stevebuttry and The Buttry Diary

Nat Ives / AdAge:

Taking It One Day at a Time at The Daily — Why Rupert Murdoch's Audacious iPad Newspaper Can't Wait for the Future to Come — “After the election” became a running joke in the newsroom at The Daily this summer when rumors erupted that News Corp.'s grand iPad experiment …

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of Pricing 201 — Don't call it a price increase. Call it a re-valuation of the customer proposition. — Really. — Now, waist-deep into the digital circulation revenue revolution, we're adding fact to hunch, data to intuition. — Take The Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C., and its spring paywall launch.

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Five reasons why media companies should pay attention to The Atlantic — There has been a lot of buzz around the recent launch of a new online business publication called Quartz, in part because a new global business-news provider doesn't come along that often, but also because it comes …

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Reuters:

Iran jury finds Reuters guilty over video script, pending judge's ruling -Press TV — (Reuters) - An Iranian jury voted on Sunday to convict the Reuters news organisation over a video script that contained an error, Iran's Press TV reported. The final decision will be made by a judge, who is expected to issue his verdict next month.

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Free the Files! ProPublica taps the crowd for a database-building sprint to election day — Political transparency geeks got both good news and bad news from the Federal Communications Commission last April. — Good news first: The FCC decided it would require television stations to put information about political ad buys online.

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Who Controls the Story? — JEREMY PETERS was doing a routine reporting job earlier this year when he stumbled across something that, as he put it, “smelled funny.” — Mr. Peters, a New York Times political reporter, had asked an Obama press representative at the campaign's Chicago headquarters …

Discussion: @sulliview

BBC:

Iran's Fars agency sorry for running the Onion spoof story — An Iranian news agency has apologised after being fooled by a spoof story from a US satirical website. — Fars news agency said on its website that its news item “was extracted” from the Onion website on Friday, but was taken down in less than two hours.

Discussion: Fars News Agency, The Lede, Al Jazeera English and AllThingsD

Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:

Inside Forbes: What Mobile Means for Journalism and My Restless Nights — As the founder and CEO of a startup, VC's would always ask me, “What keeps you up at night?” It was a tedious question with only one honest answer: raising more money from you guys.

Discussion: Monday Note

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

Poll Averages Have No History of Consistent Partisan Bias — Presidential elections are high-stakes affairs. So perhaps it is no surprise that when supporters of one candidate do not like the message they are hearing from the polls they tend to blame the messenger.

Discussion: Media Nation and AlterNet