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2:25 AM ET, April 20, 2011

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Reuters:
Thomson Reuters overhauls news management team  —  (Reuters) - Thomson Reuters Corp named Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and former Dow Jones Newswires President Paul Ingrassia to the new position of deputy editor-in-chief, one of four new hires brought in to overhaul its news operations.
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Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire:   EXODUS: Managing Editor Of Rupert Murdoch's ‘The Daily’ Jumps Ship For Reuters
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
News.me, the iPad News Aggregator Blessed By Big Publishers, Gets Ready To Launch  —  News.me, Bit.ly's social news iPad app, was supposed to launch by the end of 2010.  But developers didn't submit it for Apple's approval until about a month ago.  —  Now it looks as if News.me is just about ready for public consumption.
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Are Apps Like Flipboard the Future of Media?
Discussion: digiday:DAILY
Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb:   How Flipboard Can Bring App Makers and Publishers Together
Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
Spreading the Wealth  —  Denting the big-paper domination of the Pulitzers.  —  Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president.  —  In recent years, the Pulitzer Prize sweepstakes has often been dominated by a handful of large newspapers winning huge clusters of prizes.
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Justin Prichard / Media Week:
MailOnline overtakes Huffington Post to become world's no 2  —  Associated's MailOnline has overtaken the Huffington Post to become the world's second largest ‘newspaper’ site, as defined by ComScore.  —  ComScore data for March today (19 April) highlights how the disruptive news …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Huffington Post Doubles Down on Social Media
Discussion: The Huffington Post, Thanks:mathewi
Robert Andrews / paidContent:UK:
Chart: The Battle For Global News Supremacy
Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
How URL spoofing can put libelous words into news orgs' mouths  —  You really have to question everything you see on the web, even the supposedly sacrosanct URL.  (That ubiquitous initialism stands for “uniform resource locator,” as in, one locator for every resource on the Internet.)
Chris / cdixon.org:
Experiment: blog in Kindle book form  —  There is an amazing amount of useful, free information available on tech blogs for fledgling tech entrepreneurs (this list is a great place to start).  I think sometimes we techies forget that this wealth of content is unknown to the non-startup world.
Discussion: The Next Web and eBookNewser
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Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Chris Dixon Turns His Blog Into a Book
Discussion: MediaMemo
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SAY Media Acquires Dogster (And Has More Acquisitions In The Works)  —  Just six months after its creation, SAY Media is already going to the dogs: it's acquired Dogster, a web community for dog-owners that draws around 2 million unique visitors a month.  It's a move that sounds confusing at first …
James Gleick / Smithsonian Magazine:
What Defines a Meme?  —  Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve  —  With the rise of information theory, ideas were seen as behaving like organisms, replicating by leaping from brain to brain, interacting to form new ideas …
Discussion: Boing Boing
Matt McLernon / YouTube Blog:
The Royal Wedding live on YouTube  —  As the historic day approaches, the much-anticipated wedding of Britain's Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton has people around the world buzzing with excitement.  —  While millions will be in London for the big day, it's clear that people around the world have wedding fever.
Kylie Davis / INMA:
Dopamine, Charlie Sheen and an addiction that is killing media  —  Media people have long joked that the industry is addictive, but new research shows that actually it is medically true.  —  The constant barrage of information, new facts, tight deadlines, demands from multiple inputs …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Mark Kleinman / Kleinman:
Exclusive: News Corp Mulls F1 Bid (Updated)  —  News Corporation, the global media group, is in the early stages of talks about forming a consortium that would seek to acquire control of Formula One (F1) motor racing, I have learned.  —  News Corp has been in preliminary talks in recent weeks …
Discussion: The Wire
Grant Gross / PC World:
FTC Takes Action Against ‘fake’ News Sites  —  Several websites apparently featuring news reports that show the weight-loss benefits of acai berry products aren't what they appear to be, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Illinois Attorney General's Office said Tuesday.
News & Tech:
Google: One Pass to work with publishers  —  LONDON — Google said it expects its One Pass subscription management service to help publishers monetize content as the search engine seeks ways to work more closely with the newspaper industry.  —  Madhav Chinnappa, Google's strategic partner development manager …
Discussion: The Wire and Noted
Marika Lynch / KnightBlog:
Coming Monday: First Knight-Mozilla innovation challenge launches  —  On Monday, the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership will launch its first innovation challenge.  The contest (one of three running through May) aims to accelerate media innovation by solving technological challenges …
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Byliner Launches With A Splash, Aims To Disrupt Long-Form Journalism  —  The media is buzzing with allegations that Nobel Peace Prize nominee Greg Mortenson fabricated his bestselling books and misused millions of dollars in donations.  —  Amazingly, within days of 60 Minutes breaking the story …
Discussion: Sun Herald and GalleyCat
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
‘Glenn Beck Threw Me Under the Bus’: Breakfast with Andrew Breitbart … Over crème brûlée oatmeal on Monday, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart talked sting videos.  Mr. Breitbart explained to the Transom that Breitbart blog protocol requires undercover video kingpin James O'Keefe …
 
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Lauren Indvik / Mashable!:
GQ's New iPad App: Better, But Not by Much
Thanks:laureni
Andrew Theen / American Journalism Review:
An Encouraging Sign  —  The mother of a journalist detained …
Discussion: Online NewsHour
Jon Lafayette / Broadcasting & Cable:
Ebersol: Versus Will Get New Name
Discussion: MediaPost, rbr.com and Multichannel
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
Andrea Mitchell: What I Read
Discussion: Poynter and TVNewser, Thanks:jaredbkeller
ABCNEWS:
Sherwood Names Fedida, Ruffolo and Mercandetti to Senior Posts at ABC News
Discussion: TVNewser and paidContent
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Advice for PR pros: ‘Tips to woo your next reporter-friend’
Discussion: Ragan.com
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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The app divide between casual readers and news junkies
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Amazon's Lovefilm Strikes Disney Deal
Discussion: The Wire and Online Video News
Steve Myers / Poynter:
After Pulitzer-winning corruption coverage, LA Times helps citizens with public records requests
Wall Street Journal:
At Tribune, Battle Expands
Discussion: @iwantmedia
Russ Smith / splicetoday.com:
An Anthropologic Lesson: The New York Times And Mr. Loosie
Discussion: New York Observer