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

9:05 AM ET, March 18, 2013

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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 — 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:

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

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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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.

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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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Patrick Smith / @psmith:

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

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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.

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 …

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

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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.

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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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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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