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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 …
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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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New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company and The Verge
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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.
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mediabistro.com, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Mashable! and TVSpy
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
CNN bans ‘Frankenstorm’ term for Hurricane Sandy
CNN bans ‘Frankenstorm’ term for Hurricane Sandy
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Poynter, Mediaite, Mediaite and The Huffington Post
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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Poynter, The Daily Caller and Pressing Issues
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
New York Times endorses Obama ‘enthusiastically’
New York Times endorses Obama ‘enthusiastically’
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New York Times, @jcstearns, The Raw Story, @jayrosen_nyu, @palafo, Pressing Issues and JIMROMENESKO.COM
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 …
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The Daily Caller, @carr2n and @dangillmor
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.
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Deadline.com and Broadcasting & Cable
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.
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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 …
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BBC, BBC, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Wall Street Journal and New York Magazine
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 …
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