Mediagazer @ 6:25 AM ET, October 26, 2012

6:25 AM ET, October 26, 2012

Top News:

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Three questions for the New York Times Co — The New York Times Company's latest earnings, announced today, reiterated its story of long-term print decline, unstable advertising and a nucleus of hope based on digital subscriber growth. — On a call with investors, executives repeated …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

NY Times Co. Explains Its ‘Shockingly Weak’ Ad Results — For years, The New York Times Co. has been fighting a losing battle to replace its dwindling print advertising revenues with digital ones. So when an analyst singles out the results from a quarter as “shockingly weak,” you know that's pretty bad.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, The Buttry Diary, Guardian, FishbowlNY, Mashable! and The New York Times Company

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New York Times company stock closes down 22% after disappointing earnings report

Discussion: NASDAQ Community

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
New York Times Co. Falls After Reporting Surprise Loss

Discussion: Business Week

The Editors / Media Decoder:
Sulzberger Expresses Support for Mark Thompson, Incoming Chief Executive

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, Jack Shafer, New York Times and The Journalism Foundation

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Digital subscriptions up 11 percent at New York Times company, but revenue slips

Discussion: Business Insider, @edmundlee, The Journalism Foundation, CNNMoney.com, Boston Herald, MediaPost, Financial Times, Ebyline Blog, Guardian, paidContent, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and The Wrap

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Readers Pay More for New York Times, Advertisers Pay Less

Discussion: mnilive.com

Washington Post: BBC sex-abuse scandal echoes across the Atlantic

James Chapman / Daily Mail:
BBC tried to ‘gag’ minister over Savile scandal hours before he appeared on Question Time

Discussion: fleet street fox, Guardian and Reuters

Bloomberg:

Apple's Online Radio Service to Challenge Pandora in 2013 — Apple's Online Radio Said to Challenge Pandora — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and major music labels have intensified negotiations to start an advertising-supported Internet radio service by early next year, according to people with knowledge of the talks.

Discussion: MarketBeat, Guardian, Patently Apple, PandoDaily, Forbes, Media Decoder, Radio & Television …, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Mashable!, Tech Trader Daily, The Verge, The Next Web, Business Insider, hypebot, MacRumors, GeekWire, Gizmodo and iClarified

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

Apple's proposed Web radio service is no certainty — Apple's financial terms for a Internet radio service to labels is getting mixed reviews at some of the labels, insiders tell CNET — Apple is working hard to convince the major record companies to buy into its plan for a Web radio service …

Discussion: MacRumors and SeekingAlpha.com

Keith Bradsher / New York Times:

China Blocks Web Access to Times After Article — HONG KONG — The Chinese government swiftly blocked access early Friday morning to the Chinese-language Web site of The New York Times from computers in mainland China and gradually halted most access to the English-language site …

Discussion: Forbes, New York Magazine, Guardian, Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day, Telegraph, @dangillmor, Quartz, The Next Web, New York Times and @davidfolkenflik

Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:

Marissa Mayer Makes First Yahoo Acquisition: Stamped — Yahoo has acquired the company behind one-year-old mobile recommendations app Stamped, its first since ex-Google exec Marissa Mayer became CEO of the company in July, Mashable has learned. — The acquisition was purely for talent …

Discussion: Yodel Anecdotal, @marissamayer, AdExchanger, TechCrunch, MediaPost, The Next Web, Betabeat, CNET, TUAW, GigaOM, TechCrunch, ZDNet, WebProNews, AllThingsD and Business Insider

Kevin Kelleher / PandoDaily:

Netflix must ponder its endgame strategy — Was it really only 15 months ago when everyone loved Netflix? The stock had risen nearly eightfold during a two-year rally, CEO Reed Hastings was hailed as a game changer and was asked for the secrets of his success, and Netflix was on track …

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Netflix Hits 30 Million Members After Q3 Subscriber Growth “Forecasting Error”

Discussion: Home Media Magazine

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Gore's struggling Current TV on the block — Current TV, the ratings-challenged cable network started by former Vice President Al Gore, has put itself up for sale, The Post has learned. — “Current has been approached many times by media companies interested in acquiring our company,” CEO Joel Hyatt told The Post.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org blogs

Twitter Blog:

More interactive Tweets, in more than 2000 ways — Earlier this summer, we introduced the ability to expand Tweets to see content previews, photos and videos right within a Tweet. At that time, we were working with a small group of partners. Today there are more than 2,000 ways to bring …

Discussion: Softpedia News, The Wall Blog, CNET, The Next Web and TechCrunch

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Radiolab apologizes for treating source rudely but defends podcast — A cohost of the public-radio show Radiolab says he “pushed too hard” in an interview, but the station that produces the show has pushed back against accusations that a segment it released as a podcast was unfair.

Discussion: Current.org and Minnesota Public Radio

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon's crummy earnings report sends shares sliding after hours on steep losses — Amazon told a now-familiar story in its third-quarter earnings report this afternoon: High sales, low profits — but this time profits were even lower than analysts had expected. Shares were down in after-hours trading.

Discussion: AllThingsD, Business Wire, Business Insider, New York Times, Reuters, CNET, VatorNews, Bloomberg, Forbes, VentureBeat, ZDNet, TechCrunch, @edgecliffe, The Next Web, PublishersWeekly.com and AllThingsD

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:

Unpolitic.me Hides Political Posts On Facebook and Twitter — I know Facebook and Twitter forever changed the political process and promise to usher in a new era of global citizenship, but, sometimes I just need a mind-numbing escape of drunken Vegas photos and cat memes.

Discussion: Digiday