Roger Ebert, revered film critic and proud member of The Newspaper Guild since 1967, died Thursday at age 70. 

Pakistani officials have arrested a senior militant accused of involvement in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was also a former member of the Guild. Pearl was abducted in January 2002 in Karachi and beheaded the following month.

Beginning in the summer, The Washington Post will start charging frequent users of its website, asking those who look at more than 20 articles or multimedia features a month to pay a fee, although the company has not decided how much it will charge. The paper said, however, that it will exempt large parts of its audience from having to pay the fees. Its home-delivery subscribers will have free access to all of The Post’s digital products, and students, teachers, school administrators, government employees and military personnel will have unlimited access to the Web site while in their schools and workplaces.

Here's the good news out of Pew's 2013 report on the state of the news media: newspaper circulation is hodling steady, and even growing on Sundays. But the bad news is that, “There are more signs than ever that the reduced reporting power in the news industry is having an effect and may weaken both the industry’s capacity to produce in-depth journalism and its credibility with the public, at the same time that others are gaining more voice.”