Mediagazer: Licence fee for ‘wasteful’ BBC will be cut (Andrew Porter/Telegraph)

Andrew Porter / Telegraph:

Licence fee for ‘wasteful’ BBC will be cut — Television viewers can soon expect to pay less for their BBC licence fee as part of the austerity drive in public spending, Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, will signal on Saturday. — The broadcaster has been responsible for …

Discussion: BBC News

Lauren Kirchner / CJR:

New Magazines and Books to Launch on iPad — Although I am loath to give Richard Branson any more publicity than he already gets, I was intrigued to read that Virgin is launching a new consumer magazine called Maverick, to be available exclusively for iPad and iPhone, and eventually Android.

Discussion: MediaPost, Digits and Gizmodo

Alexandra Alter / Wall Street Journal:

Luxury Lit: A Book For $75,000 — Publishers are marketing elaborate editions with all sorts of pricey features, banking on them to grow in value like rare coins or artworks — For $75,000, you can buy a piece of Indian cricket star Sachin Tendulkar. — Luxury publisher Kraken Opus mixed …

Discussion: New York Observer and Bookninja

The Morning News:

Paper Tigers [Roundtables] — Sports are stupid. Beautiful. Dull. Transcendent. Most of all, they're more than just games, and MATT ROBISON's assembly of sports writers, critics, freaks, and authors tell us why.

Zeke Turner / New York Observer:

Changes at The Paris Review's Poetry Desk, Lorin Stein at Play … “I think there's a good argument for having fun when you work,” said Paris Review editor Lorin Stein on the phone from his White Street offices yesterday. “Life is short! And none of us is making a banker's salary, right?”

Michael Cieply / Media Decoder:

No Future for Box-Office Exchanges — Plans to open exchanges that would trade in movie box-office futures died on Thursday, as the Senate passed financial reform legislation that includes a provision banning the proposed practice. The legislation was already passed by the House, and moved to President Obama for his signature.

Discussion: Tubefilter News

Matt Zimmerman / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

San Mateo D.A. Withdraws Controversial Gizmodo iPhone Warrant — Today, San Mateo Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan granted an application by the San Mateo County D.A.'s office to withdraw the controversial warrant it obtained to search the house of Gizmodo.com journalist Jason Chen.

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Katjusa Cisar / The Awl:

A Q&A with the Creator of “I Write Like”: “The Algorithm is Not a Rocket Science” — This week's meme is I Write Like, a new website that uses an algorithm of mysterious methodology to tell you which author's work your writing most resembles. You enter some text—"your latest blog post …

Discussion: ArtsBeat, FishbowlNY and Runnin' Scared

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:

Crowdsourcing the pain of transcribing audio — The trouble with recording interviews is that you have to transcribe them. So after one of my forays to New Haven last week, where I interviewed people in connection with a book I'm working on about community news sites …

Gene Weingarten / Washington Post:

Gene Weingarten column mentions Lady Gaga. — Not very long ago, the typical American newsroom had three types of jobs: reporter, editor and photographer. But lately, as newspapers have been frantically converting themselves into high-tech, 24-hour online operations, things are more complicated.

Discussion: CJR, NewTeeVee, Romenesko and New York Magazine

Media Week:

Elle has a hit with Twitter feed — Elleuk.com, digital home to fashion magazine Elle, has increased its Twitter followers from 17,000 at the beginning of the year to 100,000. — Elle Collections: the biannual glossy — The results places it at least 66,000 Twitter followers above …

Elizabeth Guider / Hollywood Reporter:

Primetime to get racier after FCC ruling — VIDEO: ‘Friends With Benefits,’ others feature risque scenes — There was a particularly unbridled episode of Fox's “American Dad” in January in which Stan, well, gave “full release” to a racehorse. That shenanigan was duly hit with an FCC fine.

Discussion: Company Town and TVWeek.com

Laura Conaway / The Rachel Maddow Show:

Louis C.K. gets Terry Gross, Fresh Air run out of Mississippi — On Monday, Mississippi Public Broadcasting announced it had dropped Terry Gross and Fresh Air because of “recurring inappropriate content.” (Full disclosure: I used to work for NPR.) — The blog that first reported the news …

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire, Gawker, Runnin' Scared, New York Observer and PopEater