Mediagazer: Verizon Seeks to Shake Up Fees for TV Channels (Shalini Ramachandran/Wall Street Journal)

7:20 AM ET, March 18, 2013

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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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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 …

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BBC:

Press regulation deal struck by parties - Labour — Party leaders were in talks during the weekend — A deal has been struck between the three main political parties on measures to regulate the press, Labour's Harriet Harman say. — It comes after talks were held overnight between …

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Guardian:
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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 …

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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 …

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

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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Patrick Smith / @psmith:

Maymann announces Huffpo Live will be available on cable TV in the US this year for the first time. #DISummit

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.

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Kia Makarechi / The Huffington Post:

CNN Under Fire For Coverage Of Rape Trial — CNN's coverage of the verdict in the Steubenville rape case appeared to be curiously weighted on Sunday, focusing on the effect the guilty verdict would have on the lives of the now-convicted rapists and their families, rather than that of the victim and her family.

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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:

Iraq War 10th Anniversary Reminds Us Of The Questions We Didn't Ask — WASHINGTON — The conference room on Air Force One looks like any other conference room, except that the chairs at the big oak table slide on tracks and have seat belts. — On Thanksgiving 2001, I was sitting …

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