Mediagazer: Sheldon Adelson Shakes Up Israeli Newspaper Market (Sheera Frenkel/NPR)

4:40 PM ET, October 21, 2012

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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

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Reuters:

Analysis: Yahoo CEO's comeback plan hones in on technology, not media — (Reuters) - Marissa Mayer, who earned a reputation for decisive action and intensity during her 13-year stint at Google Inc, has spent her first months as Yahoo Inc CEO quietly moving the Internet pioneer back to its roots in technology.

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Sheera Frenkel / NPR:

Sheldon Adelson Shakes Up Israeli Newspaper Market … Former staff of Israel's daily Maariv newspaper protest their dismissals on Sept. 20, in Tel Aviv. The newspaper, one of the country's oldest, is on the verge of closure. — Israel's newsstands are looking noticeably less crowded these days …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Survey: About one-third of social media users post links to political articles — Almost a third of social networkers (28 percent) “post links to political stories or articles for others to read,” according to a new survey of Internet users by Pew's Internet & American Life Project.

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Dean Starkman / CJR:

Are newspaper audiences really shrinking? — Alan Mutter's post the other day—"The incredible shrinking newspaper audience"—got me thinking: Is the newspaper audience really shrinking? — So I called him up, and we're going to disagree. A lot depends on what you call an audience.

Hazel Sheffield / CJR:

Santa Barbara is getting a nonprofit investigative newsroom — A Knight grant is funding the launch of a new journalism initiative — A few years ago, a small team of journalists based in Santa Barbara, CA, starting sharing ideas on how address a gap in investigative coverage in their hometown.

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of The New York Times' expanding global strategy — SAO PAULO — Arthur Sulzberger, the Times publisher, made his first trip to Brazil this week. It was a three-day visit to Sao Paulo, and it had a single big purpose: announcing that, in the second half of 2013 …