Mediagazer: News Corp. Unit Interested in Penguin Group (Wall Street Journal)

8:40 PM ET, October 28, 2012

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Julie Moos / Poynter:

New York Times suspends paywall for Hurricane Sandy — New York Times spokesperson Eileen Murphy confirmed by email that the news organization is suspending its paywall starting this afternoon, so that readers can get information about Hurricane Sandy. — “The gateway has been removed from the entire site and all apps.

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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, The Huffington Post and New York Magazine

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

An Opinion to Consider Before You Vote — WHEN Jill Abramson, the executive editor, answered questions from readers this month on the Times Web site, she gave an unequivocal answer to a question about Times editorials. — “As executive editor, I have no involvement with editorials,” she said.

Discussion: Poynter, Pressing Issues and JSOnline

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, @jcstearns, The Raw Story, @jayrosen_nyu, @palafo, Pressing Issues and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Wall Street Journal:

News Corp. Unit Interested in Penguin Group — Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has expressed interest in buying book publisher Penguin Group, potentially undermining merger discussions between Penguin and Random House, people familiar with the situation said. — News Corp. is the parent …

Discussion: Deadline.com, The Sunday Times, Telegraph, Media Decoder and NY Daily News

Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

The World Is Not Enough: Google and the Future of Augmented Reality — The new Google FieldTrip app probes the question: What digital information do you want to see overlaid on the physical world? — It is The Future. You wake up at dawn and fumble on the bedstand for your (Google) Glass.

Discussion: Wired, @alexismadrigal, GalleyCat and The Journalism Foundation

Ron Rosenbaum / Arts & Culture:

Lewis Lapham's Antidote to the Age of BuzzFeed — With his erudite Quarterly, the legendary Harper's editor aims for an antidote to digital-age ignorance — Lewis Lapham, the legendary former editor of Harper's, who, beginning in the 1970s, helped change the face of American nonfiction …

Knowledge@Wharton:

WSJ's Raju Narisetti: ‘Journalism Has to Be Hand in Glove with Technology’ — After a six-year hiatus from The Wall Street Journal, Raju Narisetti returned to the paper earlier this year to head its online news efforts. From 1994 to 2006, Narisetti worked for the WSJ in the U.S. and abroad …

Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online:

Surmounting the Insurmountable: Wikipedia Is Nearing Completion, in a Sense — And that's something of a challenge for the collaborative encyclopedia going forward — For about the last five years, Wikipedia has had trouble getting and keeping new volunteer editors.

Discussion: The Verge

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 …

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: AdAge, Wired and the Econsultancy blog

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

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 …