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NPR.org
"I've already picked up grumblings among some staff -- who are not in news --who feel some parts of the guidelines are too restrictive and infringes on their right to a personal life outside of the office," writes Lisa Shepard. "But I'm afraid I come down with [NPR president Vivian] Schiller on the need for NPR to at all costs protect the network's most valuable asset -- its credibility."

New York Observer
"Even the Twitter posts?" Gawker's Nick Denton asked New Yorker articles editor Susan Morrison (left). "We have Twitter posts?" she replied. "I didn't even know we were doing Twitter posts. Who tweets?" (The answer.) || PLUS: More from the Magazine Innovation Summit.
> MacNicol suggests Conde hire Denton to oversee its mags

Westword
9News normally gets around 1 million page views a day, and about 150,000 unique visitors. On Thursday it had 4.6 million page views and 939,000 visitors. The Fort Collins Coloradoan tells Michael Roberts that it had about 210,000 page views yesterday, which is higher than normal, but "we've had other stories that garnered more views in the past, including ...the controversy over the CSU student paper's f-Bush editorial."

The New Republic
Jonathan Chait says writers tend to be both obsessed with who wins the National Magazine Awards and convinced the process is a pathetic joke. "This isn't just sour grapes, either," writes The New Republic senior editor. "The last time The New Republic won a National Magazine Award, it was for publishing Betsy McCaughey's infamous anti-Clintoncare screed 'No Exit,' which is probably the worst article in the history of TNR. It's as if the last American to win the Nobel Peace Prize was Timothy McVeigh."

Chicago Tribune
That's entertainingly foolish to anyone who actually knows anything about anything, says Charles Madigan. "The problem is the size of the audience in the United States that actually knows nothing about nothing. This mass (my guess, about 12 percent of the electorate) is easily moved. ...They wear know-nothingness like a badge."

Editor & Publisher
San Francisco Chronicle editor Ward Bushee says the Times has 10 people covering the Bay Area, and "we have a full staff much larger than that. All it means to us is that there is a lot more competition, which is a good thing." Bay Area News Group's Mac Tully says the Times' presence "just makes everyone work harder."

CJR.org
That's what Megan Garber writes after reading AP senior managing editor John Daniszewski's memo to AP staff. She reprints it.

Politico.com
Washington Examiner executive editor Stephen G. Smith says Philip Anschutz's visit last week was "routine" and that the dinner for Weekly Standard and Examiner managers was over by 8 p.m. "We weren’t painting the town red," he tells Michael Calderone. Why is the Denver billionaire (at left) investing in publications that have never made money (the Standard) or have little hope of making any (the Examiner)? "I really don’t know," says friend Dean Singleton.

The Awl
"There's always a good argument for waiting," Nick Denton tells Gawker Media staffers. "But we should publish anyway, making clear what we know to be true and what remains up in the air. ...We're breaking more stories than we ever have. That's awesome. But there's no way we're going to slow our publishing schedule to that of a ponderous newspaper-style organization."
> Denton: "We shamelessly rip off things that magazines do well"
> What journalists can learn from Gawkers "dark Facebook"

Hollywood Reporter
"You're chopping all these trees down and making paper out of them and trying to deal with all the waste paper," says Ted Turner. "It's the biggest solid waste problem that we have." He tells Bloomberg that he'd like to see "less fluffy news and more international news" on CNN, and that "I'd like to see me running Time Warner."

paidContent | Content Bridges
NYT president Scott Heekin-Canedy says the Times' Bay Area pages, which debut today, might bring in a few new readers, "but we don't have big ambitions there. By itself, it's not going to be a reason to purchase the Times or subscribe to the Times." (There will be four pages a week of added regional coverage.) || Related from Ken Doctor.
> Weintraub leaves SacBee, will write for NYT's Bay Area edition

Advertising Age | Newser.com
New York Media belongs to Wasserstein family trusts -- and Bruce Wasserstein's family is wealthy, notes Nat Ives. "New York magazine is losing money, but nothing like, say, BusinessWeek. There's no apparent pressure to sell soon." || Caroline Miller: Here's hoping that Ben Wasserstein wants to compete with Jared Kushner. "If he's been well-schooled by his dad, it could be the best shot New York has."
> The Deal editor says Wasserstein was never a meddler

MarketWatch
"The strategy is really simple but hard to do," David Westin tells Jon Friedman. "Provide something that nobody else is providing. Differentiation is so much more important today when you're competing with hundreds, maybe thousands, of competitors."

POSTED FRIDAY (Oct. 16)
NYT's Bay Area Report
What it looks like.
(Niemanlab.org)

Fox News tweet flap, cont'd.
Barnhart finds e-mail that started it.
(TVBarn)

POSTED THURSDAY (Oct. 15)
Kindred's experiment
140-word column.
(Sportsjournalism.org)

Conde layoffs hit golf mags
At least 10 let go.
(Gawker)

The 4chan-ization of Gawker
Roston: Good luck with it!
(True/Slant)

POSTED WEDNESDAY (Oct. 14)
Newseum impressions
From a Denver press critic (and wife).
(Westword)

POSTED MONDAY (Oct. 12)
Surviving on a Mediabistro wage
Ernst tells her story to "Today."
(Gawker)

Seeking Alpha
Gary Pruitt also told analysts during today's earnings call:
* "We have had numerous rounds of expense cuts. They have been extremely painful. We had hoped to avoid them. We couldn't."
* "Declines in our newspaper advertising were partially offset by strong growth in digital retail advertising. Online retail was up 57.7%."
* [Re Miami land sale] "We are working with the buyer. The buyer remains committed to closing the deal and buying this land but it is too soon right now to say if this transaction is going to close by the end of the year which was our hope."

> "Mikulan blogging was like using a Ferrari to deliver pizza"
> CNN admits commentator has insurance industry ties
> Sun-Times, union "in some pretty serious discussions"
> Wasserstein understood journalists and journalism
> Latest French Vogue features a model in blackface

Knight Digital Media Center
Michele McLellan says the leadership language of NPR's new social media guidelines offers a positive counterpoint to the Washington Post's.

Boston Globe
Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson says the Globe has "made significant progress," and "our financial situation is better but we are not what I would call where we need to be. We are not out of the woods." Publisher Steven Ainsley adds that unless there's further improvement in the Globe's financial situation, "there is a reasonable likelihood we will not reinstate [full wages and benefits]."

MinnPost.com
That's the financial-world expression for businesses that emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, only to return. The Strib calls it "unprofessional speculation."

Romenesko Misc.
CJR Encore Fellows -- a new initiative -- provides downsized professionals with a writing position as well as support to help them choose how best to use their experience in the years ahead. Their work will be featured in the magazine and on CJR.org over a nine-month period beginning in late October. The fellows are Lisa Anderson, Don Terry, Jill Drew and Terry McDermott. (Disclosure: Poynter is a partner in the program.)