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2:15 PM ET, October 11, 2012

Top News:

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Martha Raddatz Faces Charges Of Bias From Conservative Outlets, As Gwen Ifill Did In 2008 — NEW YORK — On the day before the 2008 vice presidential debate, The Drudge Report splashed a photo of moderator Gwen Ifill and suggested it was a conflict of interest for her to moderate the following night's contest.

Discussion: American Journalism Review, Pressthink, Mediaite, Politico, Washington Post, USA Today, Chickaboomer, @jeffjarvis and The Daily Caller

Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:

Martha Raddatz On the Hot Seat — Moderator of VP debate has journalistic combat experience — When Martha Raddatz opens the vice presidential debate Thursday night, she will bring something very different to the highly touted event. — No, not the fact that she's a woman.

David Dishneau / Associated Press:

Media Seeks Court-Martial Files In Bradley Manning Case — WASHINGTON — The U.S. military's highest court is asking WikiLeaks to explain why the military justice system, rather than civilian courts, is the proper venue for seeking routine judicial documents in the court-martial …

Discussion: Courthouse News Service, Politico and AFP

Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:

WikiLeaks Implements Paywall, Anonymous Does Not Approve — As WikiLeaks ramps up for its first document dump in months, there's a very noticeable difference in the workflow of the champions of free information. It's not exactly free any more. Early Wednesday evening, WikiLeaks teased their …

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Instapaper founder Marco Arment launches magazine on iTunes — After breaking new media ground with products like Tumblr and Instapaper, Marco Arment is turning his attention to a more conventional publishing format — the magazine. — Launching today in iTunes, Arment's “The Magazine” …

Discussion: Fortune, The Next Web and Daring Fireball

Ben Fritz / Los Angeles Times:

Variety: pay wall going, print staying, Penske says — New Variety owner Jay Penske won kudos from his new employees at Variety by promising to take down the paper's online paywall, continue the industry trade's presence in print and invest in its newsroom.

Discussion: Poynter

James Fanelli / DNAinfo.com New York:

Sulzberger Will Shows Heirs Want to Sell His New York Times Stock — NEW YORK CITY — The children of the late New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Sr. are moving quickly to sell stock he held in the Gray Lady's parent company, his will reveals. — Sulzberger Sr. died at 86 on Sept. 29 …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and New York Magazine

Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Agrees To Mediation For Contract

Discussion: nyguild.org, Poynter, JIMROMENESKO.COM, New York Magazine and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:

Self hit by Condé cutbacks — Cutbacks started at Condé Nast late yesterday, with a least one corporate vice president and eight editorial staffers on Lucy Danziger's Self magazine getting the ax. The cutbacks are expected to continue today, with staffers from Glamour and GQ on the chopping block.

Discussion: Capital New York

Alex Hern / New Statesman:

Reddit blocks Gawker in defence of its right to be really, really creepy — Links from the Gawker network of sites have been banned from the Reddit US Politics sub-forum, r/politics. The ban was instigated by a moderator after a Gawker.com journalist, Adrian Chen, apparently threatened …

Discussion: Betabeat

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Mayer to Unveil New Company “Goals” at All-Hands Today — But Could Talent Focus Signal the Start of Acquisitions? — It appears that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer could be back on the job today, after the birth of her first child 11 days ago. — In an internal memo from Mayer — which was signed …

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Here's Business Insider's Crazy New Strategy to Boost Ad Revenue — Sponsored Content Business, ‘Brand Insider’ Expected to Generate 50% of Ad Revenue — Get ready for more slideshows on Business Insider, but this time with a twist: they'll be paid for by an advertiser and likely include some nod to a brand's product or service.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Demotix Hits A Million Images, Proving The Crowd-Sourced Picture Agency Can Work — We've been covering Demotix since their controversial launch in 2008 and frankly the jury at the time was out on whether they really could create what many had tried and failed to do: a crowd-sourced …