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4:35 PM ET, March 28, 2013

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Dan Reimold / MediaShift:

Business Insider Just Told College Students Their Secrets of Success — Earlier this month, in a Manhattan hotel conference room, a student journalist admitted being nervous about an upcoming business reporting internship. “I'm going to be blunt,” she said. “I'm 20. I don't know about the Stock Exchange.

Discussion: @petersterne, @abrams, @thestalwart, College Media Matters, The Editorialiste and Talking Biz News

Wendy Davis / MediaPost News:

Backpage Wins Permanent Order Blocking Tennesse Sex-Trafficking Law — In a victory for Backpage.com, a federal judge in Tennessee has permanently barred the state from enforcing a 2012 law regulating online ads. That law, which was aimed at curbing the sex-trafficking of teens …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest

Patrick Smith / TheMediaBriefing:

Behind the business model of MailOnline, the biggest newspaper site in the world — There is much talk of paywalls at the moment, but don't forget the other side of the payfence: there is a huge opportunity in ad-supported free media and MailOnline is showing the way forward.

Discussion: paidContent and @jayrosen_nyu, Thanks:@mediabrief

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

After Casting Wide Net, CNN Finds Co-Host for Morning Show — In his search for a new morning television host that lasted months, the new head of CNN, Jeffrey Zucker, considered dozens of names, some boldface and some unknown. It wasn't until he paired Christopher Cuomo …

Discussion: Deadline.com, The Wrap, Variety, LA Observed, Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable, The Huffington Post, FishbowlDC, AdAge and Erik Wemple

Edmund Lee / Businessweek:

AOL Waits for a Huffington Post Payoff — Two years after their merger, seated side by side in a corner conference room at AOL's (AOL) Manhattan headquarters on March 20, Chief Executive Officer Tim Armstrong and Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington say they couldn't be happier.

Discussion: @natives

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Storify starts to monetize with VIP, a premium plan for live-blogging, custom sources and more — Storify is moving forward with plans to realize its business model. Today, the social media curator is announcing the launch of Storify VIP, its premium service designed for media organizations …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Mashable and Storify

Otis Chandler / Goodreads:

Exciting News About Goodreads: We're Joining the Amazon Family! — When Elizabeth and I started Goodreads from my living room seven years ago, we set out to create a better way for people to find and share books they love. It's been a wild ride seeing how the company has grown and watching …

Discussion: TechCrunch, paidContent, Amazon.com, The Next Web, @rafat, Gizmodo and Business Insider

Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Quotas get results — A chat with MSNBC's Chris Hayes on tapping sources more diverse than the usual pool of white dudes — Let's face it: The conversation about diversity in journalism is mostly boring hand-wringing. With each new byline count, it's easy to despair that gender …

Discussion: Poynter, TVNewser, Politico and @jcstearns

Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:

Steve Swartz to succeed Frank Bennack as CEO of Hearst Corp. — One of the longest-serving chief executives in the media industry is stepping down. — Frank A. Bennack Jr., chief executive of Hearst Corp. since 1979, will give up that title in June. Steven Swartz, currently president and chief operating officer, will become CEO.

Discussion: WWD Media Headlines, Wall Street Journal, Variety and Adweek

New York Times:
Chief Who Led Expansion at Hearst Will Step Down

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Media Decoder and Hollywood Reporter

Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:

Barbara Walters Retiring Next Year — Barbara Walters is set to retire from broadcasting in May 2014, a person familiar with her plans told The Huffington Post. — There will be a years' worth of specials about Walters' storied broadcasting career before then.

Discussion: Deadline.com, TVNewser, FishbowlNY, Hollywood Reporter, Media Decoder, Business Insider, New York Post, USA Today, TMZ.com, BWW TV Stories, The Daily Beast, TVLine and WJLA-TV

Jessica Testa / BuzzFeed:

Matt Lauer Apologizes To Disgruntled Former Intern On Twitter — Sort of. The Today host is not having the best week. It started Tuesday, when an executive producer at Fox 8 in Cleveland tweeted something said by anchor/reporter Mark Zinni.

Discussion: @markzinni, @rudemattlauer and @rudemattlauer

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Penguin will offer its new ebooks to libraries again as of April 2 — In 2011, Penguin decided to stop offering new ebooks to libraries, citing “concerns about the security of digital editions.” The publisher then ended its relationship with digital library distributor OverDrive.

Discussion: Associated Press, VentureBeat and PublishersWeekly.com

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Two years in: Reflections on the New York Times paywall — A look at the metered pay model's first two years and some of the key lessons learned along the way — Paywalls, in particular the metered model, have been in the news as recently as this week. On Tuesday the Daily Telegraph announced …