Mediagazer: Maymann announces Huffpo Live will be available on cable TV in the US this year for the first time. #DISummit (Patrick Smith/@psmith)

8:25 AM ET, March 18, 2013

Top News:

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Newspaper groups threaten to boycott new press regulator — Owners of Sun, Telegraph and Daily Mail say they may set up own watchdog if government opts for statutory underpinning — Three of the country's biggest newspaper groups, including the owners of the Daily Mail and the Sun …

Discussion: Strange Attractor and Big News Network.com

BBC:

Press regulation deal struck by parties - Labour — 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 …

Discussion: Digital Spy, Big News Network.com, New York Times, Guardian, Guardian, Big News Network.com, Telegraph, Sky News, The Independent and Associated Press

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 …

Discussion: Big News Network.com

@skynewsbreak:

Prime Minister David Cameron to address Tory MPs this afternoon on press regulation

David Bauder / Associated Press:

Journalism study shows impact of cutbacks in news — By By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer - 7 hours ago — NEW YORK (AP) — Years of newsroom cutbacks have had a demonstrable impact on the quality of digital, newspaper and television news and in how consumers view that work, a study released Monday found.

Discussion: New York Times and Reportr.net

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Nearly one-third of U.S. adults have abandoned a news outlet due to dissatisfaction

Discussion: Forbes, Pew, Broadcasting & Cable, @alansmurray, @alansmurray, @alansmurray, Digital TV Europe, Deadline.com and Poynter's News University

Wall Street Journal:

Bribery Allegations Surfaced Against WSJ in China — The Justice Department last year opened an investigation into allegations that employees at The Wall Street Journal's China news bureau bribed Chinese officials for information for news articles. — A search by the Journal's parent company found …

Discussion: Quartz, New York Times and The Huffington Post

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

Camille Dodero / Gawker:

Newspapering Is a Business: The Death of the Legendary Boston Phoenix — Yesterday, the Boston Phoenix announced that the alternative-newsweekly would stop publishing after 47 years. I learned this by phone, from someone who'd been a colleague of mine there, while the paper was experimenting with editors …

Discussion: Grantland

Jack Shafer:
The long, slow decline of alt-weeklies

Discussion: Poynter, @susie_c, @edmundlee and @mjfuhlhage

Susan Orlean / New Yorker:
Memories of the Phoenix — I attended the University of Michigan …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab

Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:

Twitter Just Crushed Wall Street After The Cyprus Bailout — This process has been happening for a long time, but for those in finance, the value of Twitter is increasingly equaling or surpassing the value of traditional sell-side research from Wall Street analysts.

Discussion: Some of it was true, The Daily Beast, Paul Krugman, Felix Salmon, Quartz, @ldrogen and Forbes

Benj Edwards / The Atlantic Online:

The Copyright Rule We Need to Repeal If We Want to Preserve Our Cultural Heritage — The anti-circumvention section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act threatens to make archivists criminals if they try to preserve our society's artifacts for future generations.

BBC:

Sun apologises for accessing MP's stolen phone — The Sun newspaper has apologised in the High Court for accessing private information on a stolen mobile phone belonging to a Labour MP. — Police told Siobhain McDonagh her text messages had been accessed after her phone was stolen in October 2010.

Discussion: The Independent, Telegraph and ITV News

Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of a news company of the future — What will news companies look like in 2018? How will they operate differently? — That future is coming into focus. While many publishers' vision is still quite blurry, it's the Financial Times that is clearest-eyed about its roadmap and its future.

Discussion: AdExchanger, Kirk LaPointe's … and ftresponse.blog.com

Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal:

Verizon Seeks to Shake Up Fees for TV Channels — 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.

Discussion: 24/7 Wall St., Gizmodo and The Verge