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8:40 AM ET, October 29, 2012

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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 …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Penguin revenues declined in 2012, says Pearson  —  Pearson's confirmation that it is offloading Penguin comes as it revealed that the book publisher's revenues declined 2% in the first nine months of 2012, despite healthy growth in its ebook business.  The company confirmed on Monday …
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The Week:
Murdoch snubbed as Penguin Random House deal is struck  —  PENGUIN and Random House are facing up to the threat of bookselling colossus Amazon by forming a joint publishing venture that will account for a quarter of the US and UK markets.  After days of speculation, a deal was announced …
Discussion: CNNMoney.com
Jessica Hodgson / Wall Street Journal:
Penguin, Random House Ink Deal
Charlie Osborne / CNET:
New York Times, Wall Street Journal shed paywalls for Hurricane Sandy  —  As people go online to get more information on Hurricane Sandy, news outlets are responding by making their content free.  —  Two major publications have stripped away their paywalls to give consumers unfettered access …
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Hurricane Sandy Media Coverage Competes With Final Week Of 2012 Election  —  NEW YORK — On Monday, CNN plans to kick off its end-of-the-election series, “The Final Battlegrounds,” with over two-dozen correspondents dispatched across eight pivotal states for the 2012 campaign's eight remaining days.
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN bans ‘Frankenstorm’ term for Hurricane Sandy
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 …
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
FT digital subs pass 300,000, growing readership and revenue  —  Most Financial Times readers are now digital subscribers, after another spurt in online subs pushed the publisher to 313,000 digital subscribers this September.  —  The 17 percent annual subs jump means FT Group has a combined print …
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Pearson
 
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