Mediagazer: GOP leader thinks Will McAvoy is a real news anchor (Jim Romenesko)

1:20 PM ET, March 18, 2013

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Newspaper groups threaten to boycott new press regulator

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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.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Circulation down, challenges up at alt-weeklies — The alt-weeklies chapter of Pew's State of the News Media 2013 report provides daily newspaper publishers with one of their very few opportunities for schadenfreude: At these papers, which regularly take shots at their bigger rivals …

David Bauder / Associated Press:
Journalism study shows impact of cutbacks in news

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Patrick Wensink / Salon:

My Amazon bestseller made me nothing — My novel shot to the top of the site's bestseller list last summer. You won't believe how little I got paid — In one more week I was going to be a millionaire. — At least, that was the rumor circulating around my wife's family.

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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.

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Wall Street Journal:
Bribery Allegations Surfaced Against WSJ in China

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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.

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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 …

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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