Mediagazer: HBO Go app set to stream its way to iPhones, iPads and Android devices (Vlad Savov/Engadget)

8:40 AM ET, April 20, 2011

Top News:

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.

Discussion: eMedia Vitals, Garcia Media, NewsGrange and Soup, more at Techmeme »

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.

Discussion: Google News Blog, BusinessJournalism.org … and Nieman Storyboard

Donald R. Winslow / Lens:

The Pulitzer Eddie Adams Didn't Want — For a long time after Eddie Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for “Saigon Execution,” he wouldn't speak of it. He turned away questions about the picture, grumbling some dismissive rebuff like, “Everything's already been said about it.” Or: “There's nothing new.

Discussion: Poynter and Future of Journalism

Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Why Didn't WikiLeaks Reporting Earn A Pulitzer? The NY Times Didn't Submit It

Discussion: Crikey, The News About The News, The Huffington Post, The Nation, Online NewsHour, Poynter and AAN, Thanks:forbestech

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

The Washington Post Launches Trove, A Personalized Social News Site — The Washington Post Company this morning debuted its free, personalized, social news site and aggregator Trove in public beta. — First reported to be in the works and nearing launch by The Wall Street Journal in February 2011 …

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.

Discussion: Adweek, FishbowlNY, Media News International, Media Decoder, @jwpetersnyt, paidContent, mediabistro.com, Talking Biz News, New York Magazine, On Media's Blog and Soup

Glynnis MacNicol / The Wire: EXODUS: Managing Editor Of Rupert Murdoch's ‘The Daily’ Jumps Ship For Reuters

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Are Apps Like Flipboard the Future of Media? — If you spend any time at all with an iPad, it soon becomes second nature to swipe through webpages, books and magazines with just a finger stroke, to the point where this has become the preferred way of consuming content for many digital natives …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and digiday:DAILY

Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb: How Flipboard Can Bring App Makers and Publishers Together

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 …

Discussion: Media Matters for America

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: eMedia Vitals and Sun Herald

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.)

Discussion: Metamedia, The Independent, blogs.independent.co.uk, Malcolm Coles, TechCrunch, Runnin' Scared, Press Gazette and The Wire

Mohan Ramkumar / The Next Web:

CNN App launches for Android phones — Following on from the launch of its Android tablet app, CNN has unveiled an official app for Android smartphones. — For those wondering what the big deal is about launching the same app again, unlike iOS, Android tablets and smartphones run …

Discussion: SocialTimes.com, CNN and Gizmodo

Vlad Savov / Engadget:

HBO Go app set to stream its way to iPhones, iPads and Android devices — Are you familiar with the HBO Go online streaming service that lets subscribers catch up on HBO's award-winning and ass-kicking TV content? Well, 'appy news for you, dear reader, for it's about to hit smartphones and tablets early next month.

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET News, TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac and ZDNet

Bloomberg:

Cuban Puts Landmark Theatres, Magnolia Pictures Up for Sale — Billionaire Mark Cuban has put his Landmark Theatres and Magnolia Pictures up for sale, saying entertainment companies are attracting “huge valuations.” — Cuban, 52, is “just testing the waters,” he said today in an e-mail in response to a question from Bloomberg News.

Discussion: The Wrap and Deadline.com

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

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Why Subscription May Not Be The Panacea In Entertainment — Subscription digital access is increasingly the hot business model for multi-platform entertainment distributors. — But, to Lovefilm, which pioneered UK DVD-by-post subscription, the same model could be increasingly second-best in its coming online era.

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: Bits, FM Blog and The Daily Beast

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 …

Discussion: SAI, digiday:DAILY, GigaOM, paidContent and NetworkEffect, more at Techmeme »

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 …

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

Ben Popper / Betabeat:
Chris Dixon Turns His Blog Into a Book

Discussion: MediaMemo

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Huffington Post Doubles Down on Social Media — The Huffington Post gets a lot of criticism for the way it runs its digital content business, including its “crowdsourcing” of free content, which has led to a class-action lawsuit by a number of bloggers who now want to be paid in the wake of the site's $315-million acquisition by AOL.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Techland and The Wire, Thanks:mathewi