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12:20 PM ET, March 19, 2013

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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
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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 click-through rates low …
Discussion: Guardian
Press Gazette:
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.
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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 …
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Georgia Wilkins / Sydney Morning Herald:
Lonely Planet sold to US firm for $75m
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 …
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.
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Freya Petersen / GlobalPost:
Family of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, beheaded in Pakistan, welcomes arrest of suspect
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 …
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.
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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: @huntermw, @gunaraj and Poynter
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.
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
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.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
How Much for a How-to Lesson?  Demand Media Gets Into Paid Content by Buying CreativeBug.  —  The Internet is swimming in how-to-guides and videos, and a lot of them are produced by Demand Media.  You can see all of those for free.  —  But if you want to take a lesson on crocheting …
Discussion: The Next Web
Dan Elliott / Associated Press:
Jana Winter, Fox News Reporter, Fights Judge's Order To Testify About James Holmes' Notebook  —  DENVER — A Fox News reporter in New York is appealing a judge's order to appear in a Colorado court to reveal who told her about a notebook that movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes sent …
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
Katy Bachman / Adweek:
Streaming Internet Service Runs Out of Legal Moves  —  Ivi, a pay TV service that was streaming over-the-air TV signals on the Internet without permission, has finally reached the end of the road in court.  —  The Supreme Court on Monday denied the company's petition for certiorari and refused …
Roque Planas / The Huffington Post:
‘Generation Y’ Blogger Plots Unprecedented Project In Communist Cuba  —  Communist Cuba may soon see a non-government newspaper produced on the island.  —  Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez said she plans to launch an independent digital newspaper this year, and may follow with a paper edition …
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: Gizmodo
Al Bawaba:
YouTube to allow users in Egypt and Saudi to monetize videos  —  YouTube, the world's largest online video community, announced that it would extend its “YouTube Partner Program” to users in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE during a press conference on Sunday.
Discussion: Wamda and The Next Web
 
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Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
End of an era for Daily Variety
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Spanish Magazine Publisher Bets Against the Crisis
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Erik Maza / WWD:
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Discussion: The Daily Beast, FishbowlNY and Adweek
Quentin Hardy / NYT Bits:
Bloomberg Doubles Its Tech Television
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Citing “flat-lined” sales, Andrew Sullivan's Dish lowers paywall to 5 free stories every 60 days
Discussion: FishbowlNY and The Dish
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
MSNBC Preparing New Web Launch
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
WaPo will, finally, charge online
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
CNN, Fox News, MSNBC Air Name Of Steubenville Rape Victim
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Steve Brill Gets the Last Laugh Over Epic Health-Care Story
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The Washington Post Is Building a Paywall (With a Huge Hole)
Discussion: Media Decoder
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Publisher Jesse Angelo is restructuring the money-losing New York Post's revenue operation
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Jim Romenesko:
GOP leader thinks Will McAvoy is a real news anchor
Discussion: David Clarke