The Washington Post's longtime television columnist, Lisa de Moraes, is leaving "The TV Column" and the newspaper at the end of May to move to California, she told TheWrap on Monday.

De Moraes has written for the paper for nearly 15 years and "loved every minute of it," but after six years of making a 2,700-mile commute to see her Los Angeles-based husband, has decided to live "full-time" on the West Coast.

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President Obama may at times get his “Star Trek” references mixed up with his “Star Wars” mentions, but he knows how to poke fun at himself.

Saturday night, at the annual Washington D.C. journalists' Gridiron Dinner, he sent up his screw-up from last week when, in the course of discussing his battle over tax cuts with the GOP, he joked about doing “a Jedi mind meld” to convince Republicans to come over to his position.

Mind melds are, of course, the domain of Spock from “Star Trek,” and have no relation to the Jedi warriors of “Star Wars.”

"After a very public mix-up last week, my communications team has provided me with an easy way to distinguish between Star Trek and Star Wars," Obama stated.

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The Writers Guild of America, East has reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with ABC News, the labor union said Friday.

The new deal calls for a 2 percent pay increase for each year of the contract. It also increases the amount that ABC News will contribute to workers pension plans, although the guild did not provide specifics about how big a bump there will be in contributions.

The pact covers approximately 142 newswriters, producers, assignment editors, promo producers, graphic artists and desk assistants based in New York and Washington, D.C. Members of the union will still have to ratify the deal and a vote will likely happen in the next two weeks.

The deal will run...

Newspapers are strengthening their paywalls, raising prices for digital subscriptions while reducing the number of stories people can read before having to pay.

According to the latest research from Press+, the average price of a monthly digital subscription has increased 40 percent since July 2011, though just five percent in the last six months.

Moreover, 35 percent of Press+ affiliates have restricted their readers to five or fewer articles per month, and 77 percent allow 10 or fewer.

The data is based on Press+’s research into its own affiliates. The company is an e-commerce platform that helps publishers implement...