Mediagazer: Journalists and technical staff at the BBC have voted to go on strike in a dispute over job cuts (@skynewsbreak)

11:40 AM ET, March 20, 2013

Top News:

Why I left news — I get asked two questions several times a week, and I brush off both with a verbal swat. One — because I'm in my late 20s, I suppose - is when are you getting married? And the other, because it seems like small talk, is why did you leave the newspaper?

Discussion: Poynter, Change of Subject, @juliemmoos, @jeffsonderman, @ckanal and @jayrosen_nyu

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.

Discussion: Radio & Television …, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, hypebot, Business Insider, Music Week, Tech Digest, GeekWire, Pocket-lint and CNET

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.

Discussion: Daily Download, @chadmumm, @tcarmody, @tcarmody, @tcarmody, @emilybell, @jayrosen_nyu, The Fix, Beyond Search and TheBlaze.com

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 …

Discussion: Guido Fawkes, Press Gazette, Bloomberg, The Independent, Guardian, @joshhalliday, HoldTheFrontPage, Huffington Post, @joshhalliday, Telegraph and BBC

Tom Chivers / Telegraph:
Budget 2013: don't scapegoat the Evening Standard's tweeter. It's probably just some poor kid on £23k

Discussion: @fieldproducer

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.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Talking Biz News and Inside Higher Ed

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.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, Kindle Post US, VentureBeat, GalleyCat, Los Angeles Times, GeekWire, NetNewsCheck Latest, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget and Softpedia News

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.

Discussion: Mediaite, TVNewser and New Republic

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Roger Ailes Biography Trashed By New York Times

Discussion: New York Times, TVNewser, Politico, New York Magazine, Business Insider, Politico, Forbes, Mediaite, TVNewser and The New York Observer

Jeff Clabaugh / Washington Business Journal:

Washington Examiner cuts 87 jobs, drops local news — The Washington Examiner is dropping local news coverage, cutting 87 jobs and changing into a weekly magazine and daily website focused on political news. — Denver-based Clarity Media Group Inc., which owns the Examiner …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter, Washington Examiner, City Desk, FishbowlDC and Washington City Paper

Will Sommer / Washington City Paper: Washington Examiner Memo: New Weekly Paper to Target “Key Influencers”

Guardian:

Sun deputy editor charged over alleged payments to public officials — Geoff Webster due to appear in court on 26 March after information from Operation Elveden investigation led to charges — Geoff Webster, the deputy editor of the Sun, has been charged over alleged criminal offences relating …

Discussion: ProPublica, The Independent, Daily Mail, Telegraph, BBC, itn.co.uk and seattlepi.com

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

Fraser Nelson / Spectator:

Why The Spectator said ‘no’ to David Cameron's Royal Charter for regulation of the press — After due consideration, we at The Spectator have decided our response to the proposed Royal Charter system of press regulation. Our answer is given on the cover of the new magazine (above).

Discussion: pressgazette.co.uk, Guardian and Telegraph

Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Leveson report: Only a gutter press can keep clean the gutters of public life

Discussion: National Review

Guardian:
Press regulation: newspapers may form breakaway bodies

Discussion: @rupertmurdoch and @jackmirkinson

@skynewsbreak:

Journalists and technical staff at the BBC have voted to go on strike in a dispute over job cuts

Michael Cieply / Media Decoder:

Actress's Suit Against IMDb for Publishing Her Actual Age Can Go to Trial — LOS ANGELES — Junie Hoang, the actress who sued Amazon and its Internet Movie Database unit for posting her age, can take her complaint — or at least some of it — to a jury. — Judge Marsha J. Pechman …

Discussion: TVWeek.com, Los Angeles Times, Technology & … and Variety

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Google Embeds March Madness Bracket In Search, Because Screw Sports Sites — Who wins basketball games is an immutable fact. No one owns that information, so why should some random sports sites get the windfall of traffic as millions of sports fan search Google for the NCAA March Madness bracket?

Discussion: Softpedia News, NetNewsCheck Latest, The Next Web and Search Engine Land

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