Mediagazer: Unlike Blasphemy in Video, a YouTube Ban Is Shrugged Off (Azam Ahmed/New York Times)

3:00 PM ET, December 7, 2012

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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Online Paywalls and the Future of Media: A Few Hard Truths — Yesterday, both The Daily Beast (or, more accurately, whatever Tina Brown can toss together after they've absorbed the corpse of Newsweek and laid a bunch of people off) and the Washington Post announced that they may be instituting …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Wrap

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Washington Post Considers a Paywall — The Washington Post, one of the last holdouts against the trend of charging readers for online access to newspaper articles, is likely to reverse that decision in 2013, according to people familiar with the matter. — While details are being finished …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Washington Post, Daily Beast Jumping On The Paywall Bandwagon. Too Late?

Discussion: Capital New York and Adweek

Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:
Daily Beast Considers Charging for Website

Discussion: New York Magazine, Capital New York, paidContent, FishbowlNY, Noted, Poynter and Business Insider, Thanks:@jaredbkeller

Caity Weaver / Gawker:

DJs Behind the Royal Hospital Hoax Have Deleted Their Twitter Accounts; There's Speculation They've Been Fired (UPDATE) — The two DJs behind the Kate Middleton hospital prank, now being blamed as a contributing factor to her nurse's suicide, have either deleted their verified Twitter accounts, or had them removed.

Discussion: Mediaite, Media Decoder, The Huffington Post, TMZ.com, Yahoo! News, The Lede, Daily Mail, International Business Times, KNXV, National Updates, @thematthewkeys and Telegraph

Guardian:

2Day FM: Australia's shock-jock station with history of backfiring stunts — One DJ previously reprimanded for making teen girl admit she was raped, and calling a female journalist a ‘fat slag’ — The Sydney radio station that made a hoax call to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cornwall …

Dashiell Bennett / The Atlantic Wire:
How the Prank Call at Kate Middleton's Hospital Turned Deadly

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Telegraph:

Leveson Report: PM proposes third way to regulate the press — David Cameron is considering establishing a new independent press watchdog by Royal Charter - the mechanism used to set up the BBC and the Bank of England. — Watch Lord Leveson deliver his report

Discussion: BBC and Guardian

Joe Schneider / Bloomberg:
U.K. Judge Who Probed News Says Internet Can Be Tamed

Discussion: Telegraph, Guardian, ABC News, Daily Mail, HeraldSun, Digital Spy, LSE Media Policy Project, theweek.co.uk and Hollywood Reporter

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

News Corp's publishing arm to focus on losses at Times and Sunday Times — More integration of titles difficult under terms that Rupert Murdoch agreed for Times Newspapers in 1981 — Slashing losses at the Times and Sunday Times, running at an estimated £1m a week …

Bloomberg:
News Corp.'s The Daily Shutdown Affects 126 Employees

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Guardian News & Media plans to shed 68 editorial posts — Publisher of the Guardian, Observer and MediaGuardian says it must save £7m from the editorial budget — Guardian News & Media, the publisher of the Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk, has informed staff of plans …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Katherine Rushton / Telegraph:
Guardian steps up pressure for staff to volunteer for redundancy

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Rob Fishman / BuzzFeed:

Google's Lost Social Network — Last October, while hundreds of protesters were encamped in Zuccotti Park, a handful of people occupied a glass building in downtown Washington D.C. Wearing sheepish grins and business casual attire, the ninety-nine percent they were not; one demonstrator said he worked for Grover Norquist.

Discussion: Business Insider and The Daily Beast

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:

Some Second Thoughts and Reader Feedback About the Middle East and Social Media — When I wrote last Wednesday about The Times's Jerusalem bureau chief, Jodi Rudoren, and criticism of her social media use, many readers - and some of those quoted in the blog post - responded.

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

For Netflix and the SEC, a Facebook Share Should Be Public Enough — Most people worry about over-sharing on Facebook. Under-sharing? Not so much. — Except, that is, for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which is considering taking action against Netflix for a Facebook post made by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.

Discussion: Business Week and GigaOM

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Being Investigated By The SEC For CEO Reed Hastings' Public Facebook Posts

David Kravets / Wired:

Hollywood's Total Piracy Awareness Program Set for January Launch — UNIVERSAL CITY, California - Beginning in a few weeks, the nation's major internet service providers will roll out an initiative — backed by Obama and pushed by Hollywood and the record labels - to disrupt …

Discussion: Plagiarism Today

Julie Moos / Poynter:

Cleveland Plain Dealer union gets new deal that protects staff from future layoffs, raises pay 8% — The Cleveland Plain Dealer has reached a new, tentative six-year agreement with the Guild's bargaining committee. The new agreement offers some protections to the 58 people to be laid off next year …

Discussion: Willamette Week

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

Amidst Ongoing Legal Battles, Aereo To Launch Apps For Smart TVs, Set-Top Boxes; Game Consoles Likely To Follow — Aereo, the polarizing startup that allows users to watch broadcast TV over the Web, is currently fighting for its life in court. The IAC and Barry Diller-backed startup …

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Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:

The Tweet-Like News Flash That Announced Pearl Harbor — On this day 71 years ago, the United States experienced a day that would live in infamy. In the news flash above, the Associated Press made its first, terse announcement of the Pearl Harbor attacks to the nation.

Jim Romenesko:

Photojournalism student killed in bicycle accident wrote his own obit in September — Boston University College of Communication graduate student and aspiring photojournalist Christopher Weigl was killed Thursday when his bicycle collided with a tractor-trailer.

Discussion: Boston Globe and Community Advocate

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Spotify Event Tries to Bury the Old Feuds Between Artists and Napster — Could a single bro-hug symbolize healing for the music industry after a decade of digital strife? — That was the inevitable question at a Spotify news conference on Thursday, when Lars Ulrich of Metallica embraced Sean Parker, one of the company's investors.

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