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3:45 PM ET, March 18, 2013

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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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.
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The Huffington Post:   Journalism Study Makes For Miserable Reading
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Circulation down, challenges up at alt-weeklies
Discussion: Globe and Mail
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.
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Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:
Time's Health Care Opus Is a Hit
Discussion: New York Magazine, Poynter and The Dish
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.
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
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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:   Iraq War 10th Anniversary Reminds Us Of The Questions We Didn't Ask
Patrick Smith / @psmith:
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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
 
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