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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.
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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The Washington Post Is Building a Paywall (With a Huge Hole) — For the Washington Post and digital subscriptions, it's better late than never. — Two years after its great northern rival, The New York Times, ushered in an era of paywall experimentation in the newspaper industry …
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
WaPo will, finally, charge online — Anti-paywall forces routed in the US; attention shifts to Kings Cross — The Washington Post is making it official: It will put up a metered paywall sometime this summer, the paper reports. — But the Post is hardly diving in.
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 …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Steve Coll named dean of Columbia Journalism School — Steve Coll, the decorated Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker staff writer, has been named dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. — He replaces Nick Lemann, a fellow New Yorker writer who announced last October he would be stepping …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Many j-schools 'still haven't mastered the Web,' Knight says
Many j-schools 'still haven't mastered the Web,' Knight says
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Erik Wemple:
On cable TV, talk is cheap — and profitable — One way that cable news differs from more traditional news providers — newspapers, for example — is cash. They make a lot of it, that is. We hear that Fox News tallies net profits in the range of $1 billion.
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Hot Air, The Huffington Post and TVNewser
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Nearly one-third of U.S. adults have abandoned a news outlet due to dissatisfaction
Nearly one-third of U.S. adults have abandoned a news outlet due to dissatisfaction
David Bauder / Associated Press:
Journalism study shows impact of cutbacks in news
Journalism study shows impact of cutbacks in news
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Slate
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Press regulation at risk as newspaper groups refuse to endorse deal — Publishers of Daily Mail, Sun and Telegraph taking high-level legal advice before deciding whether to join new watchdog — The political consensus over a new system of press regulation is running into difficulty …
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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Phone-hacking victims give press regulation deal cautious welcome
Phone-hacking victims give press regulation deal cautious welcome
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Guido Fawkes
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Press regulation deal: the key points
Press regulation deal: the key points
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WWD Media Headlines, Jon Slattery, The Sun, AdAge and Big News Network.com
Keach Hagey / Digits:
NBCNews.com Snags Yahoo News Editor-in-Chief Amid First Wave of Hires — NBCNews.com will not be another web portal. — That's the message in the first batch of hires that the new site announced Monday, nine months after it was created following the end of the 16-year joint venture between between NBC and Microsoft.
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Steve Brill Gets the Last Laugh Over Epic Health-Care Story — The New Republic's young owner Chris Hughes wasn't crazy to think an exclusive interview with President Obama was a fine way to relaunch a magazine, but the 36-page article on health care he booted to make room ended up the runaway hit.
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Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Time's Health Care Opus Is a Hit
Time's Health Care Opus Is a Hit
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Politico, Maza's Bazaar, Poynter and The Dish
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Publisher Jesse Angelo is restructuring the money-losing New York Post's revenue operation — For years, Jesse Angelo had been a rising star in the editing ranks of Rupert Murdoch's Australian, British and U.S. tabloids. — Now, fresh off his doomed voyage as editor of News Corp's tablet title …
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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 …
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New York Times and GeekWire
Patrick Wensink / Salon:
My Amazon bestseller made me nothing — My novel shot to the top of the site's bestseller list last summer. You won't believe how little I got paid — In one more week I was going to be a millionaire. — At least, that was the rumor circulating around my wife's family.
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Business Insider, @edyong209, @jasonboyett, @bclayne and @pkafka
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
MSNBC Preparing New Web Launch — Richard Wolffe, vice president and executive editor of MSNBC.com, updated staff on the upcoming launch of the cable network's website and about new key hires, including ProPublica's Dafna Linzer, according to a memo obtained by The Huffington Post.
Erik Hayden / Hollywood Reporter:
Reddit Debuts Original Web Mini-Series (Exclusive) — The site is debuting three episodes of a series based on the subreddit “Explain Like I'm Five.” — Online community Reddit is experimenting with original web programming and is debuting three episodes of a new web series on Monday.
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VentureBeat, AllThingsD, The Verge and Laughing Squid
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Citing “flat-lined” sales, Andrew Sullivan's Dish lowers paywall to 5 free stories every 60 days — The Dish is making its paywall stricter in its second month, Andrew Sullivan wrote Monday. He cited sales that “flat-lined once the meter reset for most people after March 8,” …
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