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But they wouldn’t pay very much. Among regular Internet users in the United States, 48 percent said in the survey, conducted in October, that they would pay to read news online, including on mobile devices. That result tied with Britain for the lowest figure among nine countries where Boston Consulting commissioned surveys. In several Western European countries, more than 60 …

This weekend I noticed that the websites of the Washington Blade, Southern Voice, and several other titles published by Window Media had not been updated in a few days. Just now, Southern Voice posted this message to their Facebook fan page: With deepest regret, as editor of SoVo, I have to tell you that we arrived at the office to …

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and former Nixon White House speechwriter William Safire died this weekend at age 79. A columnist for the New York Times for more than 30 years, Safire won the 1978 Pulitzer prize for his writings on a now obscure scandal involving an appointee of President Jimmy Carter. He was on the Pulitzer board from 1995 to 2004. …

“I love the gay press. I really am impressed with gay journalists, as a group. I like reading the marriage issue in the gay press because they cover it as if what happens matters, whereas if you read The New York Times, it’s always about how this is going to affect who gets elected president.” – NOM founder Maggie Gallagher, …

“I’ve decided to move out of the Sunshine State. It’s a bit more chilly here than I had expected. Some may say good riddance, but I’m no longer willing to live in a place where I can’t get married, can’t adopt children and where there are no state laws to protect me from being fired because I’m gay. And so …

The ombudsman for the Washington Post has posted an apology for last week’s glowing profile of NOM’s executive director, Brian Brown. [I]t deprived readers of hearing from others who have battled Brown and find him uncivil and bigoted. To them, he represents injustice. They should have been heard, at length. “In a profile piece, for a controversial figure like that …

Recently fired Miami ABC News anchor Charles Perez has been granted a restraining order against his ex-boyfriend, saying Dennis Pena had physically threatened and sexually assaulted him. Miami-Dade County Judge Rosa Figarola ordered Dennis Ricardo Peña to stay at least 500 feet away from Perez for the next 24 months. Peña, an unemployed paralegal, has 30 days to appeal and …

Conservative columnist Robert Novak, known as the “Prince of Darkness” to his enemies, has died of brain cancer at the age of 78. Novak’s remarkable and long-running career made him a powerful presence in newspaper columns, newsletters, books and on television. On May 15, 1963, Novak teamed up with the late Rowland Evans Jr. to create the “Inside Report” political …

Rupert Murdoch, the largest owner of newspapers worldwide, says he plans to begin charging for access to all of their websites by next year. Stung by a collapse in advertising revenue as the recession shredded Fleet Street’s traditional business model, Murdoch declared that the era of a free-for-all in online news was over. “Quality journalism is not cheap,” said Murdoch. …

American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling greet their husbands and families after Bill Clinton helped negotiate their release from North Korea. The two women were pardoned after 140 days, having originally been sentenced to 12 years in prison for entering the country illegally. Laura Ling is the sister of famed television reporter Lisa Ling.

Miami news anchor Charles Perez has filed a sexual orientation discrimination complaint against his ABC employers, claiming he was demoted for acting “too gay.” A personal email forwarded to Perez’ bosses by his former boyfriend may have started it all. Perez, 46, claims station bosses demoted him to weekend anchor/reporter “because of their discomfort over the increasingly high profile of …

A TIME Magazine poll shows that Jon Stewart is America’s most-trusted newscaster, now that Walter Cronkite has died. Personally, I’d put him neck-and-neck with Rachel Maddow. Brian Williams comes in second, winning the retiree-heavy states of Arizona and Florida.

Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man” in the history of television news, has died in New York City at the age of 92. Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his …

White House press corps grand dame Helen Thomas takes no mess from press secretary Robert Gibbs.

The Washington Post has just canceled an event with lobbyists amid an explosive scandal that they’d been selling the lobbyists access to powerful politicians and their own reporters and editors. Politico has the story: Washington Post Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Katharine Weymouth said today she was cancelling plans for an exclusive “salon” at her home where, for as much …

If you haven’t been following Andrew Sullivan on the crisis in Iran, you are missing some of the most astounding blogging seen since the medium was invented. His coverage has been exhaustive, contemplative, and nothing short of Pulitzer-worthy, in my opinion. It’s a bit daunting just as a reader to follow his dozens of Iran updates a day, and while …

The president did ten minutes of stand-up at Friday’s Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner.

Noted LGBT activism blogger Pam Spaulding joins MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’s Christiane Amanpour as a winner of the first annual Women’s Media Center Awards. Spaulding won in the category of online journalism. The Women’s Media Center was founded in 2005 by Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan. Congratulations Pam!!

A reporter put White House press secretary Robert Gibbs on the spot today, asking about the logical disconnect presented by the president’s decision not to release torture photos because “they would endanger troops still in Iraq”, yet he’ll fire a critical Arab linguist like openly gay Lt. Dan Choi, whose valuable work surely protects the troops. Gibbs pretends not to …

Wanda Sykes killed last night at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner where she was the first ever openly gay headliner at the event.