Mediagazer: Statutory press regulation regime is passed by Parliament (Press Gazette)

3:30 PM ET, March 19, 2013

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Statutory press regulation regime is passed by Parliament — A cross-party deal on press regulation was cemented in the Commons as MPs passed measures which could see judges award punitive damages against publications which refuse to sign up to a new watchdog.

Discussion: New York Times, Guardian, iMediaConnection Blog, pressgazette.co.uk and PSFK

Guardian:
Press regulation: newspapers may form breakaway bodies

Discussion: @rupertmurdoch

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Press regulation deal sparks fears of high libel fines for bloggers

Discussion: Poynter, UK News and Opinion, Big News Network.com and Boing Boing

Will Sommer / Washington City Paper:

Staffers Told Washington Examiner Will Cease Daily Publication — Today's layoffs at the Washington Examiner extend beyond the Local section. Staffers are being told that the paper will cease daily publication in June to become a weekly political magazine and website, according to two sources who attended a meeting about the change.

Discussion: Business Wire, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter, Erik Wemple, FishbowlDC and City Desk

Will Sommer / Washington City Paper: Washington Examiner Memo: New Weekly Paper to Target “Key Influencers”

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Massive bot network is draining $6 million a month from online ad industry, says report — A London analytics firm says it has identified a bot network that is tricking marketers into showing billions of ads every month to phantom visitors. The botnet reportedly relies …

Discussion: Financial Times and Wired.co.uk

Mike Shields / Adweek:

Meet the Most Suspect Publishers on the Web — If you spend enough time in the murky world of ad exchanges, ad tech middlemen and real-time bidding software, you might come away wondering why any major brand even bothers with online advertising. — Not only are banners dull and clickthrough rates low …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Poynter and Guardian

Nasir Habib / CNN:

Pakistan arrests man in Daniel Pearl's slaying — Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistani officials have arrested a suspect in connection with the gruesome 2002 beaheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. — Qari Abdul Hayee is believed to be the one who facilitated Pearl's kidnapping, a senior Pakistani official said.

Discussion: New York Times, DAWN.COM, National Turk News, Bloomberg, New York Post, Jewish Press, CBS News, UPI, ABC News, Daily Mail, Encino-Tarzana, CA Patch and Committee to Protect …

Freya Petersen / GlobalPost:
Family of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, beheaded in Pakistan, welcomes arrest of suspect

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Washington Times, LA Observed and The Huffington Post

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

Roland Martin Out At CNN — CNN political analyst Roland Martin announced on Twitter that his last day with the network will be in April, Breitbart reported on Tuesday. — Roland, who was a regular presence during the network's election coverage and on its morning show “Starting Point,” …

Eric Deggans / Daily Download: Cable News Is Still Unbearably White

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Eight Things You Didn't Know About Fox News' Roger Ailes — The Roger Ailes sensibility has been front and center in American culture for about 15 years now, ever since Fox News caught up with and then shot past CNN to become the No. 1 24-hour news channel.

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Roger Ailes Biography Trashed By New York Times

Discussion: New York Times, Politico, Politico, Mediaite, TVNewser, New York Magazine, Business Insider, TVNewser and The New York Observer

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BBC Worldwide criticised for sale of Lonely Planet at ‘significant loss’ — Travel guides sale to US billionaire Brad Kelley for £80m less than originally paid was not good business, says BBC Trust — BBC Worldwide has been criticised by the corporation's governing body for incurring a …

Discussion: @rafat, Media Week, Deadline.com and Bookseller news

Georgia Wilkins / Sydney Morning Herald:
Lonely Planet sold to US firm for $75m

Discussion: bbc.co.uk and Bookseller + Publisher's …

Ebyline Blog:

Uncovering the Buffett equation for newspaper survivability — Here's how to tell if your local newspaper will survive the internet apocalypse: — Does it have a circulation of 30,000 or less? — Is it in a town with a population of less than 75,000? — Does paid weekday circulation top 25% of the total population?

Discussion: Poynter, @huntermw and @gunaraj

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

NewsCred gets new $15M investment, adds New York Times as a partner — NewsCred has become a quiet force in media by offering brands and publishers an easy way to acquire high quality news content from brands like Bloomberg and Economist. In a further sign of its growing influence …

Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Forbes, Media & Entertainment, The Next Web and Business Insider

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Buzzfeed is Building a Native-Advertising Network — Social News Site Extends Advertiser Campaigns to Other Homepages — Get ready to see sponsored posts from Buzzfeed on other homepages around the web. — In October, Ad Age reported that Buzzfeed was experimenting with advertising …

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Supreme Court sides with bookseller in major copyright ruling, says resale is ok — In a court ruling that has major implications for used good merchants across the country, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that forbid a textbook seller from reselling textbooks that he had purchased overseas.

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com, Broadcasting & Cable, mediabistro.com, Forbes, GalleyCat, Hillicon Valley, WebProNews, Variety and Techdirt

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Iraq Media Failure Can Happen Again — NEW YORK — Since “Mission Accomplished” proved to be anything but, the media has done plenty of hand-wringing and soul-searching over the run-up to the Iraq War. — Major news organizations have retracted or re-examined pre-war stories, while “liberal hawks” churned out mea culpas.

Discussion: Salon, Poynter, TVNewser, New Republic, Committee to Protect … and Mother Jones

Dylan Byers / Politico:

N.Y. Times begins reintegration of IHT — The New York Times announced today that Alison Smale, the executive editor of the International Herald Tribune, will become Berlin Bureau Chief for the New York Times, and that Chief Washington Correspondent Dick Stevenson will become Europe Editor, based in Paris.

Discussion: The New York Observer

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

ABC Works on an App for Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices — THE WALT DISNEY Company, while sorting out the future of the online video Web site Hulu, has an app in the works that may render Hulu passé for some people. — The app will live stream ABC programming to the phones …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Home Media Magazine, AppleInsider, Media Decoder, App Advice, World Internet TV on PC, Engadget, WebProNews, CNET, AppNewser, The Verge and Gizmodo

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon Publishing promises authors faster royalty payments — Amazon Publishing said in a letter to literary agents Monday that it will start paying its authors royalties on a monthly basis, up from every three months. — “In this digital age, we don't see why authors should have to wait six months …

Discussion: PublishersWeekly.com

Wired:

The New Rules of the Hyper-Social, Data-Driven, Actor-Friendly, Super-Seductive Platinum Age of Television — From Game of Thrones to the new Arrested Development, television is better than ever. And it's not just a lucky accident. Turns out that networks and advertisers are using all-new metrics to design hit shows.

Discussion: The Atlantic Online and Gizmodo

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:

This Is the Scariest Statistic About the Newspaper Business Today — Here it is: In 2012, newspapers lost $16 in print ads for every $1 earned in digital ads. And it's getting worse, according to a new report by Pew. In 2011, the ratio was just 10-to-1.