Mediagazer: ‘Generation Y’ Blogger Plots Unprecedented Project In Communist Cuba (Roque Planas/The Huffington Post)

3:45 AM ET, March 19, 2013

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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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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.

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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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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Erik Wemple:
On cable TV, talk is cheap — and profitable

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Nearly one-third of U.S. adults have abandoned a news outlet due to dissatisfaction

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Pew State Of The Media Study: Journalism Cutbacks Are Driving Consumers Away

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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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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 …

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Many j-schools 'still haven't mastered the Web,' Knight says

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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

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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

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Georgia Wilkins / Sydney Morning Herald:

Lonely Planet sold to US firm for $75m — Lonely Planet has been sold to a US media group by its parent company, BBC Worldwide, after years of financial strain on the business. — The sale of the group, to Nashville-based NC2 for $75 million, ends another era for the global backpacking brand …

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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 …

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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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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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.