Check out Mini-Mediagazer for simple mobiles or Mediagazer Mobile for modern smartphones.
3:30 PM ET, March 18, 2013

Mediagazer

 Top News: 
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
The Washington Post to charge frequent users of its Web site  —  This summer, The Washington Post will start charging frequent users of its Web site, asking those who look at more than 20 articles or multimedia features a month to pay a fee, although the company has not yet decided how much it will charge.
RELATED:
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:   The Washington Post Is Building a Paywall (With a Huge Hole)
BBC:
Press regulation deal struck by parties  —  David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband claim victory in Leveson deal  —  A deal has been struck between the three main political parties on measures to regulate the press, Labour has said.  —  Leader Ed Miliband said the deal would protect …
RELATED:
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Press regulation deal: the key points  —  The main sticking points in the post-Leveson discussions that were ironed out during late-night discussions  —  • The royal charter  —  The royal charter will be entrenched through statute so that it cannot be changed by ministers …
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone-hacking victims give press regulation deal cautious welcome  —  Cross-party agreement on Leveson plan seen as historic opportunity to draw line under decades of Fleet Street excess  —  Victims of press intrusion have given a cautious welcome to the press regulation plan agreed early …
Discussion: Guido Fawkes
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Nearly one-third of U.S. adults have abandoned a news outlet due to dissatisfaction  —  Readers, viewers and listeners may not have followed the contraction of the news business closely, but they're beginning to notice the effects of five dismal years for many publishers.
RELATED:
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Circulation down, challenges up at alt-weeklies
Discussion: Globe and Mail
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Steve Coll named dean of Columbia Journalism School  —  Steve Coll, the decorated Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker staff writer, has been named dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.  —  He replaces Nick Lemann, a fellow New Yorker writer who announced last October he would be stepping …
Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:
Inside Forbes: Amid the Finger Pointing, Journalists Need to Explore New Payment Models  —  I spent eight years at AOL and I'll say this: I saw none of the great, all of the bad and some of the good.  Throughout, the media took dead aim at our strategic zig-zags and revolving-door CEOs.
Discussion: Poynter, @jayrosen_nyu and @felixsalmon
Keach Hagey / Digits:
NBCNews.com Snags Yahoo News Editor-in-Chief Amid First Wave of Hires  —  NBCNews.com will not be another web portal.  —  That's the message in the first batch of hires that the new site announced Monday, nine months after it was created following the end of the 16-year joint venture between between NBC and Microsoft.
Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Sends Signal on TV Fees  —  FiOS Operator Presses Smaller Media Firms for Deals Based on Audience Size  —  Verizon Communications Inc. is proposing to shake up the pay-television business based on a simple premise: it wants to tie the fees it pays to carry TV channels to how many people actually watch them.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
The rewards of risk-taking  —  The New York Times reports that Time magazine's March 4 issue, which featured Steven Brill's 24,000-word health care story, is on track to become its best-selling cover in almost two years, more than doubling the usual number of copies sold.
Jim Romenesko:
GOP leader thinks Will McAvoy is a real news anchor  —  Will McAvoy tweeted: “When will the media stop talking about the politically irrelevant Sarah Palin at CPAC?  I'm devoting the hour to that topic tonight!”  —  That didn't go over well with National Republican Policy Chairman and self-described …
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Iraq 10 Years Later: The Deadly Consequences of Spin  —  Those who questioned the case for war have won the fight over history.  But that won't bring back the tens of thousands of lives lost.  —  President Bush announcing the invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003.  Paul Morse/White House
RELATED:
Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:   Iraq War 10th Anniversary Reminds Us Of The Questions We Didn't Ask
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Publisher Jesse Angelo is restructuring the money-losing New York Post's revenue operation  —  For years, Jesse Angelo had been a rising star in the editing ranks of Rupert Murdoch's Australian, British and U.S. tabloids.  —  Now, fresh off his doomed voyage as editor of News Corp's tablet title …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Patrick Smith / @psmith:
Maymann announces Huffpo Live will be available on cable TV in the US this year for the first time. #DISummit
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Mediagazer at 3:30 PM ET, March 18, 2013.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
Mediagazer: site main
Mediagazer River: reverse chronological Mediagazer
Mediagazer Mobile: for phones
Mediagazer Leaderboard: Mediagazer's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Mediagazer RSS feed
Mediagazer on X
Mediagazer on Mastodon
 
 
 More News: 
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
ESPN and IFTTT Partner to Alert Sports Fans
Discussion: The Next Web
Martin Bryant / The Next Web:
Flattr now lets you make money from your Twitter Favorites, Instagram Likes and more
Discussion: GigaOM, TechCrunch and hypebot
 Earlier Picks: 
Benj Edwards / The Atlantic Online:
The Copyright Rule We Need to Repeal If We Want to Preserve Our Cultural Heritage
Kia Makarechi / The Huffington Post:
CNN Under Fire For Coverage Of Rape Trial
 

 
From Techmeme:

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Ben Glickman / Wall Street Journal:
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024

David Pierce / The Verge:
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished
 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
memeorandum
 What US political commentators are discussing online right now
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page