Mediagazer: In 2012 election, the meme factory hones its assembly line (Adrianne Jeffries/The Verge)

8:45 AM ET, October 27, 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 …

Discussion: Quartz, FP Passport, Guardian, Fast Company and WorldViews

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

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

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

Discussion: PandoDaily, The Daily Dish, Washington Post and New York Times

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: BtoB Magazine and Poynter

Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Awkward: Seattle Times fact-checks its owner's political ads

Discussion: The Seattle Times, The Daily Weekly, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Seattle Times

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

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 …

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

In 2012 election, the meme factory hones its assembly line — From binders full of women to horses and bayonets, candidates find themselves navigating the first ‘Meme Election’ — About 100 people had gathered for a generously-catered, open bar party in the West Village offices of Livestream …

Discussion: GigaOM

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.

Discussion: 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 …

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.

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 …

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

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

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.