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8:45 PM ET, October 26, 2012

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Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
‘Great Journalism’ That Has Unwanted Business Impact in China  —  Here's one memorable part of the coverage of the Chinese government's censorship Friday of The New York Times's Chinese-language Web site: the word “harmonized.”  —  The word crops up in a Washington Post story …
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Rachel Lu / FP Passport:
Weibo reaction to Wen Jiabao's corruption
Discussion: PandoDaily and The Daily Dish
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Times’ foreign editor says readers in China are finding their way to the site despite government blockade
Discussion: Guardian and CNET
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The ‘Times’ hits its first hurdle in its quest to capture the Chinese market
Discussion: New York Magazine and Quartz
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China Blocks Web Access to Times After Article
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.
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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
Current TV to Consider Offers From Potential Buyers
Discussion: SeekingAlpha.com and Chickaboomer
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The paywall prevents a deeper downturn at the NYT  —  Digital subs keep a weak earnings report from turning into a disastrous one  —  New York Times Company shares plummeted Thursday as ad revenues were worse than expected, pushing down profits from a year ago.  —  That's the bad news.
Discussion: Poynter
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Steve Ladurantaye / Globe and Mail:   Postmedia ramps up its paywall push
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Three questions for the New York Times Co
Discussion: GigaOM and Bloomberg
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 …
Tim Windsor / Zero Percent Idle:
How one geek just outdid the entire publishing industry  —  Most of my friends and colleagues in journalism or the magazine world have never heard of Marco Arment.  A few more may have actually used his offline article reader, Instapaper.  But I'd be willing to bet that almost none of them realize that …
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
Jeremy W. Peters / The Caucus:
Coming to a Battleground State Near You: MittZine  —  It's called a MittZine.  A magazine about, you guessed it, Mitt Romney.  And all 12 glossy pages of it will start appearing soon as an insert in newspapers in battleground states.  —  There are heartwarming tales from Mr. Romney's past.
Discussion: Pressing Issues
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Awkward: Seattle Times fact-checks its owner's political ads  —  The Seattle Times Co. sponsored political ads in its paper with claims that aren't entirely true, the Seattle Times reports.  If that sounds a little twisted, it is.  —  The short story is the Times' business side …
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 …
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Sony Reader launches virtual book club  —  Sony, which has struggled to gain a measurable share of the U.S. ebook market, is launching a virtual book club called the Sony Readers Book Club.  Each month the company will choose a book “to feature in a virtual Book Club gathering …
Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:
Boxfish debuts innovative live TV guide on iPhone  —  We review a lot of TV discovery apps here at Lost Remote, and Boxfish has brought something new to the table: a TV guide app with real-time search and “live windows” to let you catch a glimpse of what's airing in real-time.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Jake Harper / Sunlight Foundation Reporting Group:
Censored?  Information goes missing from political ad files  —  The Federal Communication Commission's online political ad database is supposed to make information about heavy political hitters more accessible, but a lack of clarity in the rules has resulted in some stations effectively censoring what the public is permitted to see.
Merissa Marr / Wall Street Journal:
Redstone Daughter in Succession Mix  —  From his Beverly Hills compound, Sumner Redstone has been hard at work on a new memoir titled “How to Live Forever.”  But lately, the 89-year-old media mogul has also been putting some thought to what happens once he's gone.
Discussion: Deadline.com and Los Angeles Times
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Apple's iRadio: The Case Against Pandora Panic  —  Pandora shares fell off a cliff yesterday, after Bloomberg published a story about Apple's plan to introduce a streaming music service early next year.  —  Then Pandora bounced back a bit.  But it's still down 12 percent.
Discussion: Bloomberg and MarketBeat
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David Kravets / Wired:
Buzzfeed's Sponsored Stories Stink in Infringement Smell Test
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and CJR
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Radiolab apologizes for treating source rudely but defends podcast
Kevin Kelleher / PandoDaily:
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
AP, networks change exit poll strategy
Discussion: ap.org