Mediagazer: Three questions for the New York Times Co (Jeff John Roberts/paidContent)

8:45 AM ET, October 26, 2012

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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 …

Discussion: CJR, WorldViews, Business Insider, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, New York Magazine, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, Quartz, @dangillmor, Quartz and @davidfolkenflik

Max Fisher / Washington Post:

China's censors move with unusual speed on Wen Jiabao revelation — Wen Jiabao attends a meeting in Beijing. (Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) — It was about 5 in the morning in Beijing when the New York Times revealed, in a story posted to its website, that the family of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao …

Discussion: WorldViews, Telegraph and Guardian

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.

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Apple's proposed Web radio service is no certainty — Apple's financial terms for a Internet radio service to labels is getting mixed reviews at some of the labels, insiders tell CNET — Apple is working hard to convince the major record companies to buy into its plan for a Web radio service …

Discussion: MacRumors, Forbes and SeekingAlpha.com

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Three questions for the New York Times Co — The New York Times Company's latest earnings, announced today, reiterated its story of long-term print decline, unstable advertising and a nucleus of hope based on digital subscriber growth. — On a call with investors, executives repeated …

Discussion: GigaOM and Bloomberg

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
NY Times Co. Explains Its ‘Shockingly Weak’ Ad Results

Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Buttry Diary, Guardian, FishbowlNY, Mashable!, paidContent and Poynter

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Co. Falls After Reporting Surprise Loss

Discussion: Business Week

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Readers Pay More for New York Times, Advertisers Pay Less

Discussion: mnilive.com and New York Magazine

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

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.

Discussion: SeekingAlpha.com and NewsBusters.org blogs

David Kravets / Wired:

Buzzfeed's Sponsored Stories Stink in Infringement Smell Test — A $10,000 Hans Solo desk. Photo: Courtesy of Tom Spina Designs — Like many online media outlets, Buzzfeed is moving toward the so-called “sponsored stories” advertising model — a blending of advertising and editorial content placed smack dab in the content stream.

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Marissa Mayer Makes First Yahoo Acquisition: Stamped — Yahoo has acquired the company behind one-year-old mobile recommendations app Stamped, its first since ex-Google exec Marissa Mayer became CEO of the company in July, Mashable has learned. — The acquisition was purely for talent …

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Kevin Kelleher / PandoDaily:

Netflix must ponder its endgame strategy — Was it really only 15 months ago when everyone loved Netflix? The stock had risen nearly eightfold during a two-year rally, CEO Reed Hastings was hailed as a game changer and was asked for the secrets of his success, and Netflix was on track …

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Netflix Hits 30 Million Members After Q3 Subscriber Growth “Forecasting Error”

Discussion: Home Media Magazine

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Radiolab apologizes for treating source rudely but defends podcast — A cohost of the public-radio show Radiolab says he “pushed too hard” in an interview, but the station that produces the show has pushed back against accusations that a segment it released as a podcast was unfair.

Discussion: Current.org and Minnesota Public Radio

Twitter Blog:

More interactive Tweets, in more than 2000 ways — Earlier this summer, we introduced the ability to expand Tweets to see content previews, photos and videos right within a Tweet. At that time, we were working with a small group of partners. Today there are more than 2,000 ways to bring …

Discussion: Softpedia News, The Wall Blog, CNET, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Unpolitic.me Hides Political Posts On Facebook and Twitter — I know Facebook and Twitter forever changed the political process and promise to usher in a new era of global citizenship, but, sometimes I just need a mind-numbing escape of drunken Vegas photos and cat memes.

The Editors / Media Decoder:

Sulzberger Expresses Support for Mark Thompson, Incoming Chief Executive — Mark Thompson, the incoming chief executive of The New York Times Company, who has been under scrutiny this week in connection with a burgeoning scandal at the BBC, received enthusiastic support Thursday from Arthur Sulzberger Jr. …

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, Jack Shafer, The Huffington Post, New York Times and The Journalism Foundation