Top News:
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
Al Jazeera creates interactive video transcripts of debates — Each word in the transcripts of the US presidential debates is linked to the exact point in the video where that word is spoken by Obama or Romney — The four US presidential debates maybe over but Al Jazeera English now offers …
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:
PandoDaily, New York Times, Quartz, FP Passport, Guardian, Fast Company, WorldViews, Vanity Fair and Telegraph
RELATED:
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
The ‘Times’ hits its first hurdle in its quest to capture the Chinese market
Discussion:
CNET, The Week, DealBook, FishbowlNY and New York Times
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN bans ‘Frankenstorm’ term for Hurricane Sandy — Hurricane Sandy, a big storm expected to hit the Eastern Seaboard just shy of Halloween, has taken on the popular nickname of “Frankenstorm.” A Newsday story takes the moniker to punning extremes, noting, “Meteorologists expect …
Discussion:
Mediaite, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
New York Times endorses Obama ‘enthusiastically’ — The New York Times editorial board, rather unsuprisingly, endorsed President Obama on Saturday. But unlike many other papers calling for the president's re-election with some resignation, the Times is “enthusiastically” backing him.
Discussion:
New York Times, The Raw Story, @palafo, @jcstearns, @jayrosen_nyu, Pressing Issues and JIMROMENESKO.COM
David Weigel / Slate:
The Power of James O'Keefe — This is a fact, and it will piss of liberals, but: James O'Keefe has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other journalist. His newest victory occured in Virginia, where a reporter from his Project Veritas approached Patrick Moran …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Los Angeles Times and WorldNetDaily
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.
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
BuzzFeed adapts its branded content approach to political advertising, and Obama's in — Add this to the signs that BuzzFeed is becoming a serious player in the media business: campaign ads. — More specifically, native, BuzzFeed-y, campaign ads. This month Obama for America became …
Discussion:
the Econsultancy blog and Wired
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
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:
Gizmodo, The Next Web and Softpedia News
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
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 …
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
