Mediagazer: ValoBox launches pay-by-the-piece ebooks with O'Reilly and Guardian (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

11:05 PM ET, October 26, 2012

Top News:

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, FP Passport, CNET, Business Insider and Globe and Mail

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?

Discussion: New York Times and Guardian

Rachel Lu / FP Passport:
Weibo reaction to Wen Jiabao's corruption

Discussion: PandoDaily, The Daily Dish and New York Times

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The ‘Times’ hits its first hurdle in its quest to capture the Chinese market

Discussion: CNET, DealBook and New York Times

Max Fisher / Washington Post:
China's censors move with unusual speed on Wen Jiabao revelation

Discussion: Fast Company, Quartz, Guardian, Business Insider, WorldViews and Poynter

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.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Mediaite, mediabistro.com, LA Observed, TVNewser, The Raw Story, The Huffington Post, MediaPost, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Broadcasting & Cable, SeekingAlpha.com, Deal Journal and NewsBusters.org blogs

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

Steve Ladurantaye / Globe and Mail: Postmedia ramps up its paywall push

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

Discussion: Bloomberg

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 …

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 …

Discussion: WebProNews, Forbes, Search Engine Land, Betabeat and The Verge

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

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

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

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, Pocket-lint, GalleyCat and Engadget

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

ValoBox launches pay-by-the-piece ebooks with O'Reilly and Guardian — UK-based startup ValoBox is launching “pay-as-you-go” ebooks, letting readers pay for ebooks in chunks that they can read on the web. — The company is working with titles from O'Reilly in the US and Profile …

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

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

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

How the new Digg digs up its top stories — without your help, thank you very much — Trash (n): Discarded matter; refuse. — In our story, the word trash refers to two subjects: Digg.com itself, and the community of people who contributed to its rise and fall.