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12:20 PM ET, October 26, 2012

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New York Post:
Al Gore's struggling Current TV on the block  —  Current TV, the ratings-challenged cable network started by former Vice President Al Gore, has put itself up for sale, The Post has learned.  —  “Current has been approached many times by media companies interested in acquiring our company,” CEO Joel Hyatt told The Post.
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China Blocks Web Access to Times After Article  —  HONG KONG — The Chinese government swiftly blocked access early Friday morning to the Chinese-language Web site of The New York Times from computers in mainland China and gradually halted most access to the English-language site …
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Max Fisher / Washington Post:
China's censors move with unusual speed on Wen Jiabao revelation
Jack Shafer:
The New York Times, the BBC and the Savile sex scandal  —  Before he has even had time to measure his office windows for draperies, incoming New York Times Co. CEO Mark Thompson is in the media crosshairs.  No less a figure than Times's public editor, Margaret Sullivan …
Discussion: Guardian, HBR.org, Guardian and Deadline.com
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Three questions for the New York Times Co
Discussion: GigaOM and Bloomberg
Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Co. Falls After Reporting Surprise Loss
Bloomberg:
Apple's Online Radio Service to Challenge Pandora in 2013  —  Apple's Online Radio Said to Challenge Pandora  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL) and major music labels have intensified negotiations to start an advertising-supported Internet radio service by early next year, according to people with knowledge of the talks.
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:   Apple's iRadio: The Case Against Pandora Panic
Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Apple's proposed Web radio service is no certainty
Discussion: MacRumors, SeekingAlpha.com and Forbes
Rob Williams / The Independent:
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to four years in jail for tax fraud  —  Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been sentenced to 4 years in jail following a tax fraud trial, a news agency is reporting this afternoon.  An Italian court is set …
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Christopher Mims / Quartz:
Eric Schmidt is headed to Paris to head off French proposal to charge Google for linking  —  France's new government has been making noise about forcing Google to pay for the privilege of linking to French news sites.  Google responded by threatening to remove all French news sites from its index …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Comcast: NBCUniversal Broke Even on London Olympics, Expects Profits From Future Games  —  The entertainment company recorded a $120 million profit from the Summer Games in the third quarter.  —  Cable giant Comcast Corp. on Friday reported a $120 million third-quarter profit on the London Olympics …
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas:
Boycott on Google News leads to 5% loss in web traffic: Brazilian newspapers  —  According to the National Association of Newspapers in Brazil (or ANJ in Portuguese), members that followed the association's recommendation to abandon Google News have seen a decrease in web traffic of only 5 percent.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Steve Ladurantaye / Globe and Mail:
Postmedia ramps up its paywall push  —  Canada's largest chain of metropolitan newspapers will close the gates in the new year and ask readers to pay to read their online content.  —  Postmedia Network Inc. said it would put up paywalls at all of its titles early in the new year …
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Microsoft launches Bing Elections to curate news, results, and social media insights  —  There are numerous places on the web where you can find election results, but there's not just one place to get the complete and balanced picture.  Today, Microsoft is announcing it has put together …
Bruce Einhorn / Business Week:
E-Books Finally Get Traction in Japan  —  The Japanese are avid readers; the country's publishing industry generated $22.5 billion in revenue last year, according to the Japan Book Publishers Association.  A decade ago, long before the Kindle revolutionized the publishing world in the U.S. …
Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Introducing CrunchGov, TechCrunch's Policy Platform  —  Nearly a year after citizens blindsided the government with an unprecedented protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, Congress is at a loss for how to proceed.  Luddite officials see complex tech issues as a mysterious minefield …
Discussion: Boing Boing and The Verge
Erik Maza / WWD:
Charles Townsend Offers Outlook for Condé Nast  —  TOWNSEND TALKS: On Thursday, Cindi Leive quizzed Condé Nast chief executive officer Charles Townsend at the Paley Center for Media in New York City.  Townsend, a famously blunt executive, doesn't sit for interviews often …
 
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Michael Schneider / TVGuide.com:
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Merissa Marr / Wall Street Journal:
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David Kravets / Wired:
Buzzfeed's Sponsored Stories Stink in Infringement Smell Test
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Radiolab apologizes for treating source rudely but defends podcast
Kevin Kelleher / PandoDaily:
Netflix must ponder its endgame strategy
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
AP, networks change exit poll strategy
Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Unpolitic.me Hides Political Posts On Facebook and Twitter
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Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
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Ian Griffiths / Guardian:
Amazon to be stripped of ebooks tax boost