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6:00 AM ET, March 20, 2013

Top News:

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 and FishbowlDC

Erik Wemple:
Washington Examiner editor: ‘A day of torn feelings’

Discussion: Washington City Paper

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

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: Guardian

Guardian:
Press regulation: newspapers may form breakaway bodies

Discussion: @rupertmurdoch and @jackmirkinson

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

Discussion: National Review and Press Gazette

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Press regulation deal sparks fears of high libel fines for bloggers

Discussion: Poynter, New York Times, pressgazette.co.uk, UK News and Opinion, iMediaConnection Blog, Boing Boing and Big News Network.com

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

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 …

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Roland Martin Out At CNN

Discussion: Politico, The Maynard Institute … and Chickaboomer

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo in Talks to Buy Stake in Video Site Dailymotion — Yahoo Inc. is in talks to buy a controlling stake in France Telecom SA's online-video site Dailymotion, according to people familiar with the talks, in what would be Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer's first major acquisition since taking over the Internet pioneer last year.

Discussion: ZDNet, VatorNews, AdExchanger, The Next Web, VentureBeat, CNET, Digits, @jwherrman and The Verge

Mitch Dudek / Chicago Sun Times:

Time Out Chicago bowing out of print business, going all digital — Time Out Chicago magazine is ceasing print operations and going all digital, according to sources. — No firm date has been set to shut down print operations for the magazine, which features nightlife, music and shopping information …

Discussion: Chicago Business

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: Inside Higher Ed and Talking Biz News

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 …

Discussion: Fast Company

Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:

Family's Stake in New York Times Declines — The Ochs-Sulzberger family's total shareholding in New York Times Co. fell to 13% in the past year, from 15% a year ago, the Times Co. disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday. — The decline continues a steady reduction …

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: Kindle Post US, The Verge, TechCrunch and Softpedia News

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:

Roger Ailes Biography Trashed By New York Times — The Roger Ailes biography written by Zev Chafets was released on Tuesday and New York Times book reviewer Michiko Kakutani had some harsh things to say about it. — Chafets, who also penned a biography on talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh in 2010 …

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

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes: Eight Things You Didn't Know About Fox News' Roger Ailes

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot — Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog ReadWrite, is leaving for a position at marketing software company Hubspot. We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons' departure …

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: Search Engine Land and The Next Web

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: @huntermw and @gunaraj

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: The Wrap, Technology & … and Variety

Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer:

DoJ Investigations Spark Meta Media Coverage at Reuters and WSJ — Covering breaking news from inside one's own publication is tricky business. — Last week, when Reuters deputy social media editor Matthew Keys was indicted by the Justice Department for “conspiring with members …

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 …