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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 …
Discussion:
Guardian, WorldViews and Business Insider
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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:
Guardian, FP Passport, Poynter, Washington Post, CNET, DealBook, WorldViews, Globe and Mail, Business Insider, Telegraph, The Raw Story, New York Times, FishbowlNY, Vanity Fair, CJR, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, The Next Web, Forbes, Quartz, New York Magazine, @dangillmor, @davidfolkenflik and The Newspaper Guild
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Times’ foreign editor says readers in China are finding their way to the site despite government blockade — How long might the Chinese government keep up its blockade of The New York Times' main website and that of its Chinese-language offshoot, cn.nytimes.com?
Max Fisher / Washington Post:
China's censors move with unusual speed on Wen Jiabao revelation
Discussion:
Business Insider, Fast Company, Quartz and WorldViews
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
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
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Chickaboomer and SeekingAlpha.com
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 …
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NetNewsCheck Latest, Search Engine Land, Forbes, The Verge, Betabeat and WebProNews
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
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 …
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 …
Discussion:
Broadcasting & Cable, Media Decoder, Bloomberg and The Huffington Post
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
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 …
Discussion:
The Seattle Times, The Daily Weekly and JIMROMENESKO.COM
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.
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Pressing Issues
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 …
Discussion:
FishbowlNY
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
Video Game Journalist Out Of A Job For Calling Out Dead-Eyed, Dorito-Hoarding Journalists — In the great, wide world of journalism, games journalism is a weird animal. Those who “practice” - and practice it well - face a barrage of PR perks, free trips, and angry houses.
Discussion:
Forbes, Penny Arcade Report and PlayStation LifeStyle
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 …
Discussion:
SONY make.believe, GalleyCat, Pocket-lint and Engadget
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.
Discussion:
CJR, The Huffington Post and Cable Television News
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
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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Greg Sandoval / CNET:
Apple's proposed Web radio service is no certainty
Discussion:
TechCrunch, MarketBeat, Pocket-lint, MacRumors and SeekingAlpha.com
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