Mediagazer: WikiLeaks Implements Paywall, Anonymous Does Not Approve (Adam Clark Estes/The Atlantic Wire)

5:05 PM ET, October 11, 2012

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

Look for New York Times labor deal by early November, if at all — If the mediation process between the New York Times management and Guild is going to produce a deal, it will probably come within the next month, Guild President Bill O'Meara said in an interview Thursday.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, The Huffington Post and The Newspaper Guild

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

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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 …

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David Dishneau / Associated Press:
Media Seeks Court-Martial Files In Bradley Manning Case

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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.

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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast: Martha Raddatz On the Hot Seat

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.

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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 …

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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” …

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Glenn Peoples / Billboard:

Business Matters: The Truth About Pandora's Payments to Artists — Pandora mounted an effective publicity campaign Tuesday by revealing the amounts of royalties some artists' songs generate on its service (as opposed to how much money those artists are actually collecting).

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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.

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Terrence Henry / NPR:

New York Times Reporters Detained Covering Keystone XL Protests in East Texas — The massive (and controversial) Keystone XL pipeline, which will take heavy crude harvested from oil sand pits in Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast, is currently under construction. And it's also under protest.

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 …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

The one person ‘Times’ public editor didn't call about Andrew Goldman controversy: Andrew Goldman — After a Twitter fight earlier this week between New York Times Magazine columnist Andrew Goldman and several other writers and editors, Times public editor Margaret Sullivan emailed a batch …

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