Mediagazer: Roger Ailes Caught Spying on the Reporters at His Small-Town Newspaper (Gawker)

9:15 PM ET, April 18, 2011

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2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners — Winning photographs and cartoons, and bios and photos of winners, are available by clicking the links below. Links to winning stories are provided when available. Journalism PUBLIC SERVICE - Los Angeles Times BREAKING NEWS REPORTING - No Award INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING …

Discussion: New York Times, Mixed Media, On Media's Blog, CNN, @tcarmody, live.washingtonpost.com, @ap, @koblin, @jennydeluxe, @emmagkeller, Felix Salmon and Gawker

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

WSJ Editor Preempts Pulitzers: We Aready Won ‘the Greatest Prize’ — Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — Who needs a Pulitzer Prize? Not the Wall Street Journal's managing editor, Robert Thomson. In keeping with the anti-elitism of his boss, Rupert Murdoch …

Discussion: Poynter, Poynter, The Wrap, CJR, Talking Biz News, Speakeasy, BusinessJournalism.org …, thephoenix.com, Yahoo! News, The Wire, @nyt_jenpreston, Talking Biz News and Poynter

Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:

BREAKING: No Breaking News Merits Pulitzer this Year — No Pulitzer Prize was awarded for breaking news this year. We're thinking we, the media, blew it by incorrectly breaking the death of an elected official and outsourcing our breaking news to entire nations-in-revolt of citizen journalists.

Discussion: @sdkstl

Paul Steiger / ProPublica:

A Note on ProPublica's Second Pulitzer Prize — ProPublica reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their stories on how some Wall Street bankers, seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of their clients and sometimes even their own firms …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Talking Biz News, The New Yorker Blog, Guardian, Runnin' Scared and @propublica

John Koblin / @koblin: Jake Bernstein & Jesse Eisinger's story that won National Reporting Pulitzer never appeared in print; 1st time ever says Paul Steiger

Gawker:

Roger Ailes Caught Spying on the Reporters at His Small-Town Newspaper — The small-town newspapers in New York's Hudson Valley that Fox News chief Roger Ailes owns with his wife Elizabeth are in a staff revolt after employees caught Ailes spying on them with News Corp. security goons. More »

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Wire, Salon, The New Republic, Yahoo! News and FishbowlNY

David Kaplan / paidContent:

The ‘New’ Adweek: Bigger, Bolder And Reaching For Relevance — When the new issue of Adweek is laid out with the other trade magazines in the reception areas of advertising agencies, TV networks and media companies this week, even the most casual readers will certainly notice a number …

Joe Pompeo / Yahoo! News:
Adweek editor: Michael Wolff ‘saved’ the magazine (but don't call it a trade)

Discussion: The Wire and Runnin' Scared

Adweek:
Adweek Regrooves Adweek was started 33 years ago in a far, far different media world.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Media News International, MediaPost, Gawker, FishbowlNY and MinOnline

Simon / Bloggasm:

The New Yorker gains 16,000 new fans during Facebook experiment — A week ago, the New Yorker released a free Jonathan Franzen essay that would have normally resided behind its paywall. The only catch? You had to “like” its Facebook page and access the story through the social networking giant.

Discussion: Poynter, FishbowlNY, Betabeat and eMedia Vitals

Gregory Ferenstein / Fast Company:

Al Jazeera's Social Media Experiment “The Stream” Launches Online Today — Al Jazeera's aggressive expansion into cyberspace hopes to empower a new generation of newsmakers, impact the American news market, and capture the attention of young cable cutters. — Fresh off the wild success …

Discussion: Reuters, Media Matters for America, Lost Remote, The Stream, The Politico, @magicandrew, Poynter and Soup

Gabriel Beltrone / Adweek:

Auletta's Gmail Hacked ‘Googled’ author's account fires off scam SOS to his contacts — Ken Auletta, author of best-selling book Googled and venerable media columnist for The New Yorker, fell victim to a common digital crime Monday morning: His Gmail account was hacked.

John Reinan / MinnPost:

Has the Twin Cities' one-newspaper future finally arrived? — The future of newspapers in the Twin Cities could hinge on events in Southern California. Sound crazy? Let me explain. — One of California's largest newspapers, the Orange County Register, is for sale.

David Carr / New York Times:
A Native Son Revitalizes His Paper

Discussion: CJR and BrauBlog

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Gannett's Digital Revenues Still Rising; UK Decline Drags Print Down — Gannett's ability to reach and retain profitability over the past year rested on two main things: the growth of digital revenues and its dedication to holding down expenses. While the McLean, Va.-based media company …

Discussion: MediaPost, rbr.com, Thomson IR and MediaPost

MediaShift:

Dan Gillmor Excited by Experiments by Entrepreneurial Journalists — Business content on MediaShift is sponsored by the weekend MA in Public Communication at American University. Designed for working professionals, the program is suited to career changers and public relations …

Simon Owens / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The layered look: How Google News is integrating the social web — While many have been closely following the news of new social network projects from Google — whether it's Google Wave, Google Buzz, or a rumored project reportedly called Google Me — the search giant has been rolling …

Adweek:

Analysts: The New York Times Paywall Must Pay With fierce competition for digital ads, the paywall is necessary for revenue By Katie Feola — Thanks to a flurry of stop-gap grabs for capital, the New York Times Company has emerged from the recession with enough cash to disprove predictions of its imminent demise.

Tim Bradshaw / FT Tech Hub:

Thousands protest Spotify's new music limits — The backlash against Spotify's changes to its free service appears to be growing by the hour. More than 5,300 comments have been left on the company's blogpost announcing that it would halve the 20-hour listening limit and impose a five-play cap on each individual song.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Another One Bites The Dust: Yahoo To Kill Buzz On April 21 — We knew this was coming, but Yahoo has announced that it will not longer support Yahoo Buzz, its a Digg-like product where users can rank stories from publishers. — According to a message on the Buzz website: Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011.

Discussion: Mashable!, VentureBeat, Light Reading, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews and PC Magazine, more at Techmeme »

CBS News:

Questions over Greg Mortenson's stories — He has written inspiring best sellers, including “Three Cups of Tea,” but are the stories all true? — Please note this story has been formatted transcript style. — Greg Mortenson is a former mountain climber, best-selling author, humanitarian, and philanthropist.