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3:10 PM ET, March 19, 2013

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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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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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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
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Mike Shields / Adweek:
Meet the Most Suspect Publishers on the Web
Discussion: 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.
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Freya Petersen / GlobalPost:
Family of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl, beheaded in Pakistan, welcomes arrest of suspect
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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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
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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.
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
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
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
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 …
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 …
 
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John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Exclusive: C-SPAN Study Finds Almost Quarter of Cable/Satellite Subs Watch Weekly
Discussion: TVNewser
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Paul Caine Bolts Time Inc.
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BSkyB sports channels made available on pay-as-you-go basis
Discussion: Sky Sports, Pocket-lint and Media Week
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
End of an era for Daily Variety
Al Bawaba:
YouTube to allow users in Egypt and Saudi to monetize videos
Discussion: Wamda and The Next Web
Raphael Minder / New York Times:
Spanish Magazine Publisher Bets Against the Crisis
Discussion: Garcia Media and Media Decoder
Roque Planas / The Huffington Post:
‘Generation Y’ Blogger Plots Unprecedented Project In Communist Cuba
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Erik Maza / WWD:
Anna Wintour Addresses Condé Nast Editors
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Katy Bachman / Adweek:
Streaming Internet Service Runs Out of Legal Moves
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
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
MSNBC Preparing New Web Launch
Discussion: LA Observed
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
CNN, Fox News, MSNBC Air Name Of Steubenville Rape Victim
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

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