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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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Guardian, Fast Company, CJR, WorldViews and CNET
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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?
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New York Times and Guardian
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The ‘Times’ hits its first hurdle in its quest to capture the Chinese market
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CNET, DealBook and New York Times
Rachel Lu / FP Passport:
Weibo reaction to Wen Jiabao's corruption
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PandoDaily, The Daily Dish and New York Times
Max Fisher / Washington Post:
China's censors move with unusual speed on Wen Jiabao revelation
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Guardian, Quartz, FP Passport, Politico, WorldViews and Poynter
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.
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Poynter
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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The newsonomics of Rupert Murdoch, American publisher — State governments finally cracked down on Amazon's sales tax exemption, and Jeff Bezos found a workaround: same-day-delivery of retail ("The newsonomics of Amazon vs. Main Street"). European governments and the European Community …
New York Times:
Spain's Troubles Catch Up With a Storied Newspaper — MADRID — El País established itself as the leading newspaper in Spain in the late 1970s, serving as a frontline witness to the formative period when Spain returned to democracy after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
New Megaupload To Launch On Police Raid Anniversary — With 50 million visitors per day at its peak, Megaupload was one of the largest websites on the Internet. — This abruptly ended January this year when the U.S. Government took down the file-hosting service and had several key employees arrested including founder Kim Dotcom.
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The Next Web and Softpedia News
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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SONY make.believe, Pocket-lint, GalleyCat and Engadget
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
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.
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.
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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 …
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The Seattle Times, The Daily Weekly, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Seattle Times
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