Mediagazer: Tumblr continues its quest for original content, sending out a call for paid freelancers (David Holmes/PandoDaily)

10:40 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: The Huffington Post, nyguild.org, The Newspaper Guild, JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Huffington Post

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, New York Magazine and FishbowlNY

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 …

Discussion: @jeffjarvis and @carr2n

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

Discussion: AFP, Politico and Courthouse News Service

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

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

Alex Hern / New Statesman:

Reddit blocks Gawker in defence of its right to be really, really creepy — Links from Gawker are banned from /r/politics, after journalist threatens to reveal the identity of the man running Reddit's “creepshots”, “beatingwomen” and “jailbait” forums. — The front page of r/politics

Discussion: Betabeat, Jezebel, The Awl, Daily Dot, The Atlantic Wire, Guardian, New York Magazine and GigaOM

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).

Discussion: AfterDawn.com, Bloomberg and SocialTimes

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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

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: The Next Web, Fortune, ReadWriteWeb, Marco.org and Daring Fireball

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

From Digital Sweatshop To Perk Palace: Why Gawker's Nick Denton Started Spoiling His Staff — Gawker Media owner Nick Denton cultivates a reputation for being slightly evil. That image would suffer if the world knew just how, well, nice he's been to his employees of late.

Discussion: The New York Observer

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

David Holmes / PandoDaily:

Tumblr continues its quest for original content, sending out a call for paid freelancers — More than any other social network, Tumblr has blurred the line between what a media company does and what a technology company does. Or, to piggyback on a metaphor of Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti …

Nicole Laporte / Fast Company:

Hulu Struggles To Survive The Influence Of Its Parent Companies — Jason Kilar's vision for Hulu transformed web video. So why is Hulu in trouble and Kilar rumored to be on his way out? Because his vision transformed web video. — It's an unseasonably warm summer day, and Jason Kilar is …

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 …