* NPR News editor: “Since the name of the team is the Washington Redskins, we use that in our reporting.” (npr.org)
* What was your first tweet? (theatlantic.com)
* Forbes and other sites have run stories by authors who were allegedly paid to promote the stocks they wrote about. (fortune.com)
* A new app from Tribune Digital Ventures reads the news to you. (adage.com) | (latimes.com)
* Critics of the relaunched FiveThirtyEight “are burning a straw fox.” (theweek.com)
* The Huffington Post may eventually charge for its content, says CEO Jimmy Maymann. (theguardian.com)
* A journalism student notes that the Huffington Post “sometimes has legitimate articles.” (ajr.org)
* Dan Reimold brackets college newspapers “with a smile.” (collegemediamatters.com)
* Beacon asks readers to pay for independent journalism. Five bucks a month gets you access to all of the site’s content. (nytimes.com)
* Charles Krauthammer calls CNN’s wall-to-wall Flight 370 coverage “capitalism at work.” (thedailybeast.com)
* The New Republic’s editorial boss says readers want “someone who can cut through the bullshit of the daily news cycle.” (capitalnewyork.com)
* If Cars.com sells for the asking price, Tribune will get $840 million; Gannett, $810 million; and McClatchy, $750 million. (niemanlab.org)
* Miles O’Brien is looking to get a specially-fitted prosthetic arm that will let him fly a plane and shoot video. (mediabistro.com)
* Only six hands go up in a room of 50 journalism students when they’re asked who reads print newspapers. (berkshireeagle.com)
* Cord-cutting confirmed: (bloomberg.com)
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