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4:25 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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Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Leveson report: Only a gutter press can keep clean the gutters of public life
Discussion: National Review and New York Times
Guardian:
Press regulation: newspapers may form breakaway bodies
Discussion: @jackmirkinson and @rupertmurdoch
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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Erik Wemple:
Washington Examiner editor: ‘A day of torn feelings’  —  Washington Examiner Editor Stephen G. Smith found out last week that his newsroom was about to be dismantled, then rebuilt.  Gone will be daily, printed local, sports and entertainment coverage, yielding the way for a national politics Web site and weekly magazine.
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  —  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 clickthrough rates low …
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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Eric Deggans / Daily Download:
Cable News Is Still Unbearably White  —  It's easy to sound like a broken record when you're talking about the lack of diversity among major cable TV news anchors.  —  Critic and columnist Rachel Sklar wrote about it back in 2010, with a trenchant piece for the Daily Beast called …
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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Roland Martin Out At CNN
Discussion: Politico
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:
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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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:
ESPN's Cunning Plan to Stream March Madness: Head to Bill Simmons's House  —  Turner and CBS paid a gazillion dollars for the March Madness tourney, so the only way you can watch/stream the games is by heading to one of their channels/sites.  —  But ESPN, which isn't paying a penny for the games …
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
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Paul Caine Bolts Time Inc.  —  Has the brain drain from Time Inc. begun?  Paul Caine, Time Inc.'s chief revenue officer, is leaving Time Inc. to become CEO of audio content syndicator Dial Global as the publisher prepares to spin off from parent Time Warner and face its future as a publicly traded company.
 
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Judith Rosen / Publishers Weekly:
Hudson Booksellers Poised to Take Off Online
Discussion: paidContent and Engadget
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
Exclusive: C-SPAN Study Finds Almost Quarter of Cable/Satellite Subs Watch Weekly
Discussion: TVNewser
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BSkyB sports channels made available on pay-as-you-go basis
Discussion: Sky Sports, Pocket-lint and Media Week
Dan Elliott / Associated Press:
Jana Winter, Fox News Reporter, Fights Judge's Order To Testify About James Holmes' Notebook
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
End of an era for Daily Variety
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
How Much for a How-to Lesson? Demand Media Gets Into Paid Content by Buying Creativebug.
Discussion: The Next Web
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Spanish Magazine Publisher Bets Against the Crisis
Discussion: Garcia Media and Media Decoder
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
ABC Works on an App for Streaming Shows to Mobile Devices