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Pulitzer:
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 …
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Journalism.co.uk, Mixed Media, Chicago Sun Times, New York Times, JSOnline, Mashable!, The New Yorker Blog, Associated Press, Live Q&A's, Tennessean.com, Boston Globe, CNN, On Media's Blog, The Atlantic Wire, Future of Journalism, @emmagkeller, New Jersey Online, @jennydeluxe, live.washingtonpost.com, @tcarmody, @ap, @koblin, Felix Salmon and Gawker
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Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Few entries, no consensus, no Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting — The Pulitzer Prize jury that reviewed the Breaking News Reporting category recommended three finalists to the Pulitzer Board. But for the first time ever, no entry won the category that recognizes local coverage of breaking news events.
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Another online milestone for the Pulitzer Prize — It's prize season for journalists, and today came the biggest of them all: the Pulitzer Prizes. And the trend toward online-only news organizations playing a part in what has traditionally been a newspaper game continues.
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Tower Ticker, The New Yorker Blog, The Huffington Post, Riptide 2.0 and Vanity Fair
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Big year for business journalism in Pulitzers — Four winners and five finalists of the Pulitzer Prizes announced Monday are forms of business journalism, from investigative pieces to commentary to editorial writing about business and economics news and issues.
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Online NewsHour, CJR, The Awl, New York Magazine and AAN
Paul Steiger / ProPublica:
A Note on ProPublica's Second Pulitzer Prize
A Note on ProPublica's Second Pulitzer Prize
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Felix Salmon, Guardian, The New Yorker Blog, Runnin' Scared, @propublica, Talking Biz News and Adweek
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
BREAKING: No Breaking News Merits Pulitzer this Year
BREAKING: No Breaking News Merits Pulitzer this Year
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John Koblin / @koblin:
Jake Bernstein & Jesse Eisinger's story that won National Reporting Pulitzer never appeared in print; 1st time ever says Paul Steiger
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
WSJ Editor Preempts Pulitzers: We Aready Won ‘the Greatest Prize’
WSJ Editor Preempts Pulitzers: We Aready Won ‘the Greatest Prize’
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Poynter, Poynter, Media News, The Wrap, Speakeasy, @nyt_jenpreston, Yahoo! News, BusinessJournalism.org …, The Wire, Talking Biz News, thephoenix.com and Poynter
Alex Heard / Outside:
Greg Mortenson Speaks — The embattled director of the Central Asia Institute responds to allegations of financial mismanagement and that he fabricated stories in his bestselling book Three Cups of Tea. Brace yourself for a new Central Asian conflict involving powerful American forces, and count on this one to last a while.
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Media Decoder, Mediaite, The Atlantic Wire, Hit & Run, Personanondata and CBS News
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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.
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Media Decoder, Speakeasy, The Daily Beast, The Wire, The Book Bench, The Atlantic Wire, Most Recent Home Page Posts …, The Wrap, The New Yorker Blog, GalleyCat, New York Times, Forbes.com, The Huffington Post, Hit & Run, The Daily Caller, The Latest Word, bookforum.com, Jezebel, TPM LiveWire and Danger Room
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 »
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Guardian, New York Magazine, The Wire, Salon, Mediaite, Yahoo! News, The New Republic, The Atlantic Wire and FishbowlNY
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 …
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eMedia Vitals, Editors Weblog and Future of Journalism
The Wrap:
Where Will Television Be in 2020? — So where will television be in 2020? Seems an appropriate question with the annual NAB Show winding down. And also the subject of a panel I led last week in Vegas with execs from DreamWorks, Sony Electronics, Starz, Nielsen and Technicolor.
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Future of Journalism
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Chart: The Battle For Global News Supremacy … To the competition between NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) and HuffingtonPost.com, add two British challengers... World news site traffic chart — Mail Online, the celebrity-laden website of the conservative British Daily Mail tabloid …
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Brand Republic, Guardian and The Wall Blog
David Card / GigaOM:
Privacy Legislation's Potential Impact on Online Media — Last week, the bipartisan Kerry-McCain bill proposed legislation on a Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights that would put the Federal Trade Commission in charge of policing the online collection, sharing and use of personal information.
Wall Street Journal:
At Tribune, Battle Expands — Ex-Holders Reserve Cash as Creditors Aim to Claw Back Funds; Deutsche's Market Creditors Aim to Claw Back Funds From Ex-Holders Using Novel Legal Concept — Tribune creditors allege that Sam Zell's buyout was ‘among the worst in American corporate history.’
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 …
Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb:
How Flipboard Can Bring App Makers and Publishers Together — Flipboard, the social magazine iPad app, is on everyone's mind right now. It just raised $50 million in funding on a $200 million evaluation, partnered with Oprah and is showing us what the future of media consumption can be while scaring the toenails off of publishers.
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blogs.chron.com, Editors Weblog and Monday Note
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.
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 …
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Russ Smith / splicetoday.com:
An Anthropologic Lesson: The New York Times And Mr. Loosie — Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo. — Fifteen years ago I'd never have imagined reading a typically condescending New York Times “color” story—on the front page, no less—and feeling a pang of nostalgia.
New York Post:
CBS News chief blasts ‘Early Show’ for failing to follow network's scoops — Newly minted CBS News President David Rhodes scolded the entire “Early Show” for their “bad Monday morning” and cc'd the network's brass in an e-mail obtained by Page Six 15 minutes after the show for failing to cover …