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2:45 PM ET, March 20, 2013

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Marc Tracy / New Republic:
The Man With the Kind Face  —  Roger Ailes wanted a friendly biography.  Zev Chafets was the man for the job.  —  asked Roger, 'Why'd you agree to let me do the book?'  “ Zev Chafets told me yesterday.  We were speeding up Central Park West in a News Corp.-provided town car. ”
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Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Roger Ailes Couldn't Care Less What You Think About His Obama Comments  —  The Fox News chief tells Howard Kurtz he stands by the laziness charge and says Sarah Palin made ‘mistakes’ and that Dick Morris looked like a ‘jerk’ when he predicted a Romney landslide.  Plus, read the 16 juiciest bits from the new Ailes biography.
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
Amazon in talks with record labels about subscription music service  —  Subscription music is all the rage with the big Web music stores  —  Subscription music services have yet to profit but that hasn't stopped some of the internet's biggest media distributors from jumping into the business.
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
The Glory Days of American Journalism  —  Ignore the doomsayers: The news-reading public has never had more and better information at their fingertips.  —  American news media has never been in better shape.  That's just common sense.  Almost anything you'd want to know about any subject is available at your fingertips.
Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Evening Standard leaks details of George Osborne's budget  —  Journalist suspended after tweeting picture of embargoed front page before chancellor had even uttered a word  —  When George Osborne took to his feet in the Commons on Wednesday lunchtime, he might not have expected to be greeted …
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Tom Chivers / Telegraph:
Budget 2013: don't scapegoat the Evening Standard's tweeter.  It's probably just some poor kid on £23k
Discussion: @fieldproducer
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
The Al Jazeera Charm Offensive  —  With nearly limitless funds from the Qatari royals and plans to hire up to 700 staffers, Al Jazeera America will launch in 45 million U.S. homes in July.  But it needs a star—and a clean slate, says David Freedlander.  —  Al Jazeera is coming to America.
Discussion: TVNewser, The Corsair and TheBlaze.com
Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Journalism Professor Sues Columbia, Claiming Misuse of Endowment Funds  —  A tenured professor at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and co-director of that school's business program filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the university of misdirecting $4.5 million in funds over the last decade.
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Here's When People Actually “Read Later”  —  Eighty percent of reads happen in the first 35 days.  Outside of read-later apps, that only takes six days.  —  “Read later” service Pocket ran the numbers on this longform story, published on BuzzFeed in November of last year.
Discussion: @pkafka and Pocket Blog
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Amazon launches “Send to Kindle” button for web publishers and WordPress blogs  —  Amazon is now allowing publishers to add “Send to Kindle” buttons to their websites and WordPress blogs, the company announced on the Kindle blog Tuesday.  It can be integrated into WordPress blogs as well.
Tom Gara / Corporate Intelligence:
End of an Era for eMusic, Subscription Music Pioneer … eMusic, the online music service that pioneered the subscription approach before Spotify was a glimmer in Daniel Ek's eye, quietly merged Monday with an e-book distributor, in an unusual bit of digital-media consolidation.
Discussion: Music Week and Engadget
Jim Romenesko:
WSJ.com is getting a makeover  —  Tracy Corrigan, who has been promoted to Wall Street Journal digital editor, “will soon embark on a redesign of the look and feel of WSJ.com,” says a memo from editor Gerard Baker.  —  He also announces that Stephen Wisnefski has been promoted to Real-Time News Editor and …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Michael Holden / Reuters:
Deputy editor of Murdoch UK tabloid charged over payments  —  * Latest Murdoch executive to be charged  —  British police, investigating allegations of phone-hacking centred on Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, charged the deputy editor of his top-selling Sun tabloid on Wednesday with making illegal payments to public officials.
BBC:
BBC staff vote in favour of strike action  —  The date or dates of the industrial action will be announced on Thursday  —  The BBC is facing another strike by its journalists and other staff that could potentially have a significant impact on the corporation's output.
Discussion: pressgazette.co.uk
Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Leveson report: Only a gutter press can keep clean the gutters of public life  —  Legislation to control newspapers threatens our global reputation for honest dealing  —  OK, don't take it from me.  Listen to the voice of international business.  Every year they do surveys …
Discussion: National Review
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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 …
Discussion: Poynter and mediabistro.com
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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Roland Martin Out At CNN
 
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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:
DoJ Investigations Spark Meta Media Coverage at Reuters and WSJ
Discussion: MediaShift
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Family's Stake in New York Times Declines
Mitch Dudek / Chicago Sun Times:
Time Out Chicago bowing out of print business, going all digital
Discussion: Chicago Business
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion
Judith Rosen / Publishers Weekly:
Hudson Booksellers Poised to Take Off Online
Discussion: paidContent and Engadget
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
ESPN's Cunning Plan to Stream March Madness: Head to Bill Simmons's House
Discussion: VentureBeat and The Verge
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
Buzzfeed is Building a Native-Advertising Network