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6:05 AM ET, October 29, 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
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Times Reaches Tentative Deal With Newspaper Guild  —  The New York Times said Sunday night that it had reached a tentative agreement with the Newspaper Guild, setting the stage for a new labor contract after more than 18 months of negotiations.  —  In a message to the staff, the executive editor …
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Jim Romenesko:
New York Times and union reach ‘conceptual agreement’ on 5-year contract  —  Newspaper Guild of New York president Bill O'Meara sends this email: The Guild and The Times have reached conceptual agreement on a new five-year contract.  The tentative compromise reached late today with the aid …
John Jannarone / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Unit Interested in Penguin Group  —  HarperCollins' parent News Corp . has expressed interest in buying Penguin Group, potentially undercutting merger discussions between book publishers Penguin and Random House, said a person familiar with the situation.
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.
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Paul Krugman:
The War on Objectivity  —  Brad DeLong points me to this National Review attack on Nate Silver, which I think of as illustrating an important aspect of what's really happening in America.  —  For those new to this, Nate is a sports statistician turned political statistician …
Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:
NBC Sports Acquires U.S. Rights to Premier League Soccer  —  NBCUniversal, via the NBC Sports Group, has acquired the exclusive U.S. media rights to the Premier League — the world's top soccer league — through a multi-year agreement that begins with the 2013-14 season, both parties announced Sunday.
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: GigaOM, Wired and @alexismadrigal
Nicholas Kulish / New York Times:
Arrest of '70s Rock Star Widens Sexual Abuse Case Tied to BBC  —  LONDON — The sexual abuse scandal surrounding the late television host Jimmy Savile widened Sunday after the British police arrested a former pop star in connection with the case.  —  Metropolitan Police arrested Paul Gadd …
Evgeny Morozov / Slate:
Disintermediation: We aren't seeing fewer gatekeepers.  We're seeing more.  —  Intermediaries online are more powerful, and more subtle, than ever before.  —  “Disintermediation” is often heralded as the defining feature of the digital age.  Thanks to innovative new technologies …
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 …
 
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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
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Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:
In 2012 election, the meme factory hones its assembly line
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