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3:00 PM ET, April 16, 2012

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
George Zimmerman Trial Could Start a News Swarm  —  The Orlando Sentinel's Twitter account for the Trayvon Martin case is up and running.  So, too, is its topics page, with links to all the newspaper's articles about Mr. Martin and the man who shot and killed him, George Zimmerman …
David Carr / New York Times:
Amazon Low Prices Disguise a High Cost  —  The Justice Department finally took aim at the monopolistic monolith that threatened to dominate the book industry.  So imagine the shock when the bullet aimed at threats to competition went whizzing by Amazon — which not long ago had a 90 percent stranglehold …
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon's E-Book Pricing a Constant Thorn for Publishers  —  TULSA, Okla. — Plenty of people are upset at Amazon these days, but it took a small publishing company whose best-known volume is a toilet-training tome to give the mighty Internet store the boot.  —  The Educational Development …
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
‘GMA’ Appears To Nudge ‘Today’ From Top Spot After 16 Years  —  Update, 12:55 p.m.: ABC's “Good Morning America” appears to have prevailed over NBC's “Today” show for the first week in over 16 years.  —  Preliminary Nielsen ratings, paid for by both networks and provided by ABC on Monday …
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Syracuse announces Mirror Awards finalists  —  Sycracuse's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications has made its picks for the best coverage of media in 2011.  The finalists' work appeared in major publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Washington Post …
Discussion: Mirror Awards 2012 and FishbowlNY
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Scarborough Evening News to go weekly in latest round of Johnston Press cuts  —  Scarborough, Northampton, Peterborough and Halifax are among the titles switching to weekly in ‘platform-neutral’ publishing move  —  The NUJ say they will defend members at JP titles ‘in every way we can’
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Cuomo Aide Slammed Reporter In Dossier  —  A top aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo assembled a 35-page dossier on the work of an Albany political reporter considered hostile to his administration, highlighting any shred of criticism in a document that reflects the intense sensitivity …
Discussion: Capital New York
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
Gingrich Staffer Promptly Shuts Down Interview After Student Reporter Asks About Roger Ailes' Remark  —  A reporter for the University of North Carolina's paper, The Daily Tar Heel, wrote a piece describing an interview with GOP hopeful (he's still in the race, in case you forgot) Newt Gingrich.
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Chartbeat raises $9.5M to give publishers better radar  —  Launched three years ago as a way of giving publishers and media companies better real-time analytics related to their content, Chartbeat announced Monday that it has closed a new round of Series B financing worth $9.5 million …
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Washington Post writer resigns after editor's note about ‘significant ethical lapse’  —  Washington Post writer Elizabeth Flock has resigned after an editor's note appeared for the second time in four months atop a Washington Post story by her.  She resigned on Friday.
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
New York Times Top Brass Trolled by Former Editor Armed with Embarrassing Anecdote  —  On Friday afternoon, prompted by a survey in which journalism was ranked among the worst jobs in the country, New York Times media reporter David Carr asked a question: How do America's journalists feel about their jobs?
Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney: Fox News Has Been Good To Me  —  During a private campaign event on Sunday in Palm Beach, Fla., GOP candidate Mitt Romney had some rather favorable words to say about Fox News.  —  Speaking of the media coverage his campaign has received, Romney singled out CNN host Wolf Blitzer …
 
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Mark Lewis, Lawyer in Phone-Hacking Case, Chases News Corporation in U.S.
Paul Sawers / The Next Web:
Google partners with MGM to bring more than 600 titles to YouTube and Google Play in North America
Alessandra Bajec / MediaShift:
18DaysInEgypt: Crowdsourcing a Story of Revolution
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ Pays Tribute To Mike Wallace
Discussion: FishbowlDC and The Huffington Post
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Why CBS pulled the trigger too soon on the Bush National Guard story
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Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:
1.5 million pages of ancient texts to be made accessible online
Discussion: The Verge
John Plunkett / Guardian:
BBC has thrown in the towel over live sport, claims former executive
David Allen Green / New Statesman:
The Times and NightJack: an anatomy of a failure
Joe Fassler / The Atlantic Online:
Can the Computers at Narrative Science Replace Paid Writers?
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Alan Finder / New York Times:
E-Books Are Easier to Borrow, Just Be Prepared to Wait
Discussion: @mathewi
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat:
Stability AI debuts Stable Video 3D, a generative AI tool built on its Stable Video Diffusion model, letting users create 3D video from a text or image prompt

 
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