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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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Guardian, New York Times, iMediaConnection Blog, pressgazette.co.uk and PSFK
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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Press regulation deal sparks fears of high libel fines for bloggers
Press regulation deal sparks fears of high libel fines for bloggers
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Poynter, UK News and Opinion, Big News Network.com and Boing Boing
BBC:
Press regulation: Papers seek legal advice
Press regulation: Papers seek legal advice
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The Sun, Telegraph, The Independent, Guardian, Daily Mail and Guardian
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.
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Business Wire, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter, FishbowlDC and City Desk
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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 …
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Financial Times and Wired.co.uk
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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
Family of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, beheaded in Pakistan, welcomes arrest of suspect
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ABCNEWS, Washington Times, LA Observed and The Huffington Post
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.
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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Roger Ailes Biography Trashed By New York Times
Roger Ailes Biography Trashed By New York Times
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New York Times, Politico, Politico, Mediaite, TVNewser, New York Magazine, Business Insider, The New York Observer and TVNewser
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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@rafat, Media Week, Deadline.com and Bookseller news
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Georgia Wilkins / Sydney Morning Herald:
Lonely Planet sold to US firm for $75m
Lonely Planet sold to US firm for $75m
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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?
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 …
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Forbes, Media & Entertainment, The Next Web and Business Insider
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.
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PublishersWeekly.com, Broadcasting & Cable, Forbes, mediabistro.com, 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.
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Salon, Poynter, TVNewser, New Republic, Committee to Protect … and Mother Jones
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 …
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VentureBeat, Home Media Magazine, AppleInsider, Media Decoder, App Advice, WebProNews, World Internet TV on PC, Engadget, CNET, AppNewser, The Verge and Gizmodo
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 …
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 …
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PublishersWeekly.com
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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Slate, Forbes, Kirk LaPointe's …, Adam Sherk, TheBlaze.com, The Week, Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media, Erik Wemple, Associated Press, LA Observed and Poynter
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.
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The Atlantic Online and Gizmodo
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.
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The New York Observer
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 …
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The Next Web
Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:
Hulu redesigns app for Apple TV with new content categories, ‘Shows You Watch’ tray, and easier playback — Hulu on Tuesday announced a brand new Apple TV app that it says features a new Hulu Plus experience designed “from the ground up.” You can get the new app now on your Apple TV …
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Hulu Blog, GigaOM, Home Media Magazine, BWW Geeks Stories, Engadget, Gizmodo and MacRumors
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 …