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4:50 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)  —  For the Washington Post and digital subscriptions, it's better late than never.  —  Two years after its great northern rival, The New York Times, ushered in an era of paywall experimentation in the newspaper industry …
Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
WaPo will, finally, charge online  —  Anti-paywall forces routed in the US; attention shifts to Kings Cross  —  The Washington Post is making it official: It will put up a metered paywall sometime this summer, the paper reports.  —  But the Post is hardly diving in.
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 …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:   Press regulation at risk as newspaper groups refuse to endorse deal
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone-hacking victims give press regulation deal cautious welcome
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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Erik Wemple:
On cable TV, talk is cheap — and profitable
Discussion: The Huffington Post and TVNewser
The Huffington Post:   Pew State Of The Media Study: Journalism Cutbacks Are Driving Consumers Away
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Time's Health Care Opus Is a Hit  —  Publishing a 36-page cover article called “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us” certainly didn't seem like a shameless attempt to bolster newsstand sales for Time magazine.  —  But the 25,000-word article that Steven Brill wrote …
Discussion: Poynter and The Dish
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Dylan Byers / Politico:   The rewards of risk-taking  —  The New York Times reports …
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:   Steve Brill Gets the Last Laugh Over Epic Health-Care Story
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 …
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.
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
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 and NetNewsCheck Latest
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
CNN, Fox News, MSNBC Air Name Of Steubenville Rape Victim  —  CNN, Fox News and MSNBC recently aired the name of the underage victim in the Steubenville rape trial during reports about the case.  —  Two high school football players were found guilty of raping a 16-year old girl in a controversial case in Steubenville, Ohio.
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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.
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Reddit Debuts Original Web Mini-Series (Exclusive)  —  The site is debuting three episodes of a series based on the subreddit “Explain Like I'm Five.”  —  Online community Reddit is experimenting with original web programming and is debuting three episodes of a new web series on Monday.
 
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