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5:50 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 …
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David Carr / Media Decoder:
Pay Wall Push: Why Newspapers Are Hopping Over the Picket Fence  —  When The Wall Street Journal broke the news that The Washington Post was likely to start charging for online content sometime next year, it should not have come as a surprise, but it did.  —  The shock had something …
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Washington Post, Daily Beast Jumping On The Paywall Bandwagon. Too Late?
Discussion: Capital New York, DCist, CNET and Bloomberg
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.
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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 Cambridge …
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 …
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Bloomberg:
News Corp.'s The Daily Shutdown Affects 126 Employees
Discussion: The Daily Beast
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: Guardian and BBC
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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.
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.
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 and Telegraph
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
Foster Kamer:
The Worst People in New York City, No. 92: Ryan Holiday  —  Okay, so, The New York Observer for some reason thought it'd be a good idea to put this Ryan Holiday assclown's pieces on their site.  Maybe Gell was like: Hey, let's troll everyone while we decide whether or not to keep the media desk …
Discussion: ZDNet
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
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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:
Netflix Being Investigated By The SEC For CEO Reed Hastings' Public Facebook Posts
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Vevo's YouTube Deal Expires in Three Days.  But the “Hulu for Music Videos” Site Won't Go Dark.  —  Vevo, the digital music video service, and Google, which powers Vevo.com and distributes Vevo's videos on its YouTube site, have a distribution deal that expires on Sunday.
Discussion: WebProNews
 
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Why didn't NBC News apologize to George Zimmerman?
Reuters:
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Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:
The Tweet-Like News Flash That Announced Pearl Harbor
Discussion: Poynter
Julie Moos / Poynter:
Cleveland Plain Dealer union gets new deal that protects staff from future layoffs, raises pay 8%
Discussion: Willamette Week
Jim Romenesko:
Photojournalism student killed in bicycle accident wrote his own obit in September
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC Christmas strike averted after Asian Network job dispute is settled
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Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Amidst Ongoing Legal Battles, Aereo To Launch Apps For Smart TVs, Set-Top Boxes; Game Consoles Likely To Follow
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Chris Amico / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Opened Captions: Turning the spoken words on TV screens into streams of hackable data
Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
Unlike Blasphemy in Video, a YouTube Ban Is Shrugged Off
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
Met bans blogger from using Twitter over whistleblowing book
Robert Channick / Chicago Tribune:
Tribune resumes limited usage of Journatic