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-Rupert Murdoch's New York Post has been awfully nice to Barack Obama lately. What gives? [NYT]

-Here's one more reason the newspaper industry is taking it on the chin right now: The cost of newsprint rose 33 percent in September. [FT]

-The magazine-industry workforce contracted by a little over 2 percent between June and September, shedding 3,200 jobs. Since then, of course, it has only gotten worse. [Ad Age]

-Stylista, the new reality show set at Elle magazine, is off to a ho-hum start in the ratings. [WWD]

-Telephone-directory publishers are facing hard times, both in print and online. [WSJ]

-The New York Times's public editor says a reporter who queried teenagers on Facebook in hopes of getting their parents to talk about Cindy McCain showed bad judgment. [NYT]. □

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