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3:00 AM ET, October 11, 2012

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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 …
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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Agrees To Mediation For Contract  —  The New York Times and the Newspaper Guild of New York will turn to an outside mediator to help hammer out a contract, it was announced Wednesday.  Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the paper's publisher, broke the news to staff in an email.
Jared Keller / Business Week:
What Jack Welch Could Learn From Rupert Murdoch  —  After the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest U.S. unemployment report on October 5, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch set off a social media firestorm with a single tweet suggesting the Obama administration had doctored the numbers for political gain.
John Cook / Gawker:
Bain Capital Wants a Piece of Gawker  —  After we published nearly 1,000 pages of Bain Capital's confidential financial records—including audits revealing for the first time that Bain employed a potentially illegal tax dodge currently under investigation by the New York attorney general …
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
David Kravets / Wired:
Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in Book-Scanning Project  —  A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a copyright infringement lawsuit against universities that participated in a massive book-digitization project in conjunction with Google without permission from rights holders.
David Carr / Media Decoder:
After Week of Big Political News, the Big Loser?  Liberal Bias  —  Back when Barack Obama seemed to be in command of the race and had the poll numbers to back it up — that was just a week ago, wasn't it? — there were abundant suggestions that the fix was in, that a compliant …
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The Orange County Register is hiring dozens of reporters, focusing on print-first expansion  —  Why did the Orange County Register send reporters and photogs to cover 40 — yes, four-zero, 40 — high-school sporting events in one weekend?  No, it's not another news mob.  Nor is it a one-time thing.
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Election season gives major daily newspapers ripe testing ground for video work  —  This election season has continued online news' march toward video — particularly video produced by news organizations that haven't historically been known for it.  Here's a look at how three major U.S. newspapers treated …
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
What's next for Columbia's Journalism School as Dean Nicholas Lemann steps down  —  The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is about to choose its first new leader in a decade, after Dean Nicholas Lemann announced his impending departure from the post at the end of this academic year.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Networks Like Split-Screens in Debates, Even if the Candidates Don't  —  Don't scratch your ear — even if it really itches.  If you have a thought you want to come back to, quickly jot down one memorable word, not an entire sentence.  And remember: that camera in front of you represents 60 million sets of eyes.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times and TVNewser
Julia Levy / TribecaFilm.com:
Storytelling, Audiences, and Social Influence, or Why Whoopi Goldberg Turned to Kickstarter  —  Storytelling won't die, movies will meet audiences on their own turf, and social influence will drive content.  Welcome to the Future of Film, according to a panel of experts on last week's Advertising Week panel.
 
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Ryan Kim / GigaOM:
Oyster gets $3M to become the Spotify of books
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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Jimmy Savile: BBC's Lord Patten denies corporate cover-up
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
No, giving away the news doesn't mean lower-quality journalism
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Penske will tear down Variety's pay wall: sources
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kobo acquires French digital software company Aquafadas
Discussion: TechCrunch