Mediagazer: KMOV puts Facebook to work covering airport tornado (Cory Bergman/Lost Remote)

4:35 PM ET, April 24, 2011

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Arthur S. Brisbane / New York Times:

Picking On the Competition — IT was Pulitzer Prize Day at The New York Times on Monday. Hundreds had gathered in the third-floor newsroom and around the atrium balcony one floor above. Spouses, parents and children of the winners were there, the mood festive, almost like graduation day.

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

KMOV puts Facebook to work covering airport tornado — When a tornado tore through St. Louis' airport and leveled a neighborhood Saturday night, KMOV-TV and KMOV.com went wall-to-wall with live coverage. At the same time, the station's Facebook page kicked into high gear.

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

On the Media: War photographers change their focus — The deaths in Libya of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros hit home with their fellow photojournalists. — Journalists take it as gospel that they have no higher calling than chronicling human suffering, particularly in the world's war zones.

Lens:

At 27, Guy Martin Becomes a Veteran — In a dreadful instant on Wednesday, 27-year-old Guy Martin was propelled from his cohort of Promising Young Photojournalists into the honorable — if unsought — company of those who have been injured or killed in the line of duty.

Discussion: The Huffington Post and Global Voices

Aljazeera:
No safe haven for reporters in Libya

Discussion: THE GUN

Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:

Elvis Mitchell Terminated As Chief Film Critic Of Movieline Over Review Mystery — EXCLUSIVE: I've just been told that Penske Media Corp has terminated Elvis Mitchell after more than 3 months as Movieline.com's chief film critic. The early end to his contract follows a company investigation …

Discussion: New York Magazine

Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:

In Media's Wedding Frenzy, Hints of Viewer Fatigue — LONDON — When Prince William and Kate Middleton emerge from Westminster Abbey as a married couple next Friday, they will be greeted by hundreds of reporters from around the world. But as the day draws near, there are signs that the media frenzy …

Megan Garber / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The New York Times' R&D Lab has built a tool that explores the life stories take in the social space — Some of the most exciting work taking place in The New York Times building is being done on the 28th floor, in the paper's Research and Development Lab. The group serves essentially …

Discussion: Adweek, Mashable!, FishbowlNY, Future of Journalism, eMedia Vitals and Soup

Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:

Game journalism goes new school with iPad app — Once upon a time, when articles about video game stories appeared on sheets of glossy paper that were bound together with glue, a 19-year-old named Geoff Keighley got the idea to go hang out with the developers of Half-Life as they put the final touches on the game and write about it.

Discussion: MacStories and eBookNewser

New York Times:

BBC, Under Criticism, Struggles to Tighten Its Belt — DAVID CAMERON, the British prime minister, was in Brussels meeting the press last October when he took a few moments to make fun of the British Broadcasting Corporation. — “Good to see that costs are being controlled everywhere,” …

Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:

Apple signs cloud deal with Warner Music — Apple has reached an agreement with Warner Music Group to offer the record label's tracks on iTunes' upcoming cloud-music service, music industry sources said. — In the race to the cloud, Apple is apparently stepping on the gas.

Discussion: App Advice, PC Magazine, Electronista, IntoMobile, The Next Web, MacStories, AppleInsider, TUAW, BGR, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac and hypebot

Judy Dempsey / New York Times:

New Hurdles for News in Belarus — WARSAW — It's called Belsat TV, and it's the first and only independent satellite television channel for Belarus, broadcasting news and current affairs as well as cultural and children's programs like “The Adventures of Uszatek the Bear.”

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

Liberty Media's Greg Maffei on the future of the television industry — As a tornado of change sweeps through the television industry, Liberty Media sits in the middle of the storm. It owns Starz and QVC, and is balancing partnerships with cable and satellite companies and new Internet distributors such as Netflix.