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12:40 AM ET, April 17, 2012

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2012 Winners and Finalists — Journalism Public Service The Philadelphia Inquirer Breaking News Reporting The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News Staff Investigative Reporting Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Eileen Sullivan and Chris Hawley of the Associated Press Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong …

Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:

Sara Ganim, 24, wins Pulitzer for coverage of Penn State sex abuse scandal — Sara Ganim had a motto when reporting on the sex abuse scandal at Penn State University: “Move it forward.” She wanted to address unanswered questions and tell a side of the story that national media outlets weren't capturing.

Discussion: PennLive.com, American Journalism Review, Athens News, @meganhealey, Jezebel and Hillman Foundation blogs

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:

Pulitzer Committee Confirms: Editorial Writing Is Worthless — Your 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced! [Pause.] That very faint sound you hear is the cheering of a dozen or so newsrooms across America, interspersed with the vast silence of a nation that could not care less about the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners.

Discussion: The Stranger …, @jackshafer, The Daily Beast, Capital New York, New York Times, @mlcalderone and Media & Entertainment

Erik Wemple:

Pulitzer Prizes: Editorial writers come up short — Don't blame the jury. — That's one lesson to take away from the announcement of today's Pulitzer Prizes. Or non-prizes, as the case may be. — Though the Pulitzer board awarded two top distinctions in the category of investigative journalism …

Discussion: Deadline.com, Online NewsHour and Lens

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Arianna Huffington and Tim O'Brien on HuffPost's Pulitzer Win — Arianna Huffington. (Image credit: Getty Images for AOL via @daylife) — Can traffic-chasing sensationalism and society-changing journalism co-exist under the same roof? The decision by the Pulitzer Committee to award …

Discussion: Poynter and New York Magazine

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Online journalism shines in 2012 Pulitzer picks

Discussion: ap.org and Agence France Presse

Andrew Losowsky / The Huffington Post:
No Winner For Pulitzer Prize For Fiction This Year

Discussion: The Millions, Media Decoder, The New York Observer, @sarahw, Publishers Weekly and GalleyCat

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Huffington Post Wins Pulitzer Prize — NEW YORK — Huffington Post senior military correspondent David Wood has spent decades covering war, watching as wounded combat troops are loaded onto medical evacuation helicopters and, he said, “go off in a cloud of dust.”

Discussion: Politico, PennLive.com, @brianstelter, Associated Press, @daveweigel, Capital New York, @jayrosen_nyu, @ombudsman, Forbes, @danielshea, @ariannahuff, @ombudsman, Newseum, @rosental, FishbowlNY, @carr2n, Adweek, LA Observed, @jayrosen_nyu, @jeffjarvis, FishbowlLA and GalleyCat

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

Huffington Post brings home the blogosphere's first ever Pulitzer — The Huffington Post has just made history as the first blog to ever win a Pulitzer Prize. — Only in the past two years have digital media outlets made the Pulitzer cut. ProPublica, an independent nonprofit journalism outfit …

Discussion: The Editorialiste

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why the Huffington Post doesn't equivocate on issues like global warming

Discussion: Grist

Michael Shapiro / Columbia Journalism Review:

Six degrees of aggregation - How The Huffington Post ate the Internet — Of the many and conflicting stories about how Huffington Post came to be—how it boasts 68 sections, three international editions (with more to come), 1.2 billion monthly page views and 54 million comments in the past year alone …

Discussion: @peretti

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Mark Lewis, Lawyer in Phone-Hacking Case, Chases News Corporation in U.S. — Rupert Murdoch has made a career of painting his critics as elitist, privileged and out of touch. But the English lawyer who stands at the center of the legal battles that have engulfed his News Corporation …

Ed Pilkington / Guardian: Lawyer pursuing phone hacking in US considers asking FBI for help

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 …

Discussion: @brianstelter, Chickaboomer, AdAge, New York Magazine, Radio & Television …, Guardian, The Huffington Post, Media & Entertainment, TVNewser, TVSpy, Mediaite, Broadcasting & Cable and TVLine

Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

Bonnier SVP Gregg Hano Named CEO of Mag+ — Gregg Hano, currently the svp of corporate sales and the technology group at Bonnier Corp. (which includes Popular Science, Popular Photography, American Photo and Sound + Vision magazines), was named CEO of smartphone and tablet publishing platform Mag+ …

Discussion: Publishing Executive …, Folio, MinOnline, FishbowlNY and MediaPost

Carl Franzen / Talking Points Memo:

‘Tumblr’ To Overtake ‘Blog’ In Google Searches — Whither blogging? Yes, according to Google Search results, which project that searches for the word “Tumblr,” the name of a specific company and blogging platform, will eclipse those for the more generic term “blog” before the end of 2012.

Discussion: The Next Web, xkcd.com and Gizmodo

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

What the DOJ e-book lawsuit means for readers now — Last week the Department of Justice sued Apple and five book publishers for allegedly colluding to set e-book prices. (Here is everything you need to know about that in one post.) What does the suit mean for readers today and in coming weeks?

Discussion: msnbc.com

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.

Discussion: The Daily Tar Heel, Politico, Erik Wemple, Indecision Forever, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

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, Change The Ratio and FishbowlNY

Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:

Why I Never Became Mediaite's Fox News Mole — Like Joe Muto, the ex-O'Reilly Factor producer now known as Gawker's “Fox Mole,” I too ceased working at Fox News last week. I too had qualms about working at Fox initially and, throughout my three years there, had concerns about some of the network's programming.

Discussion: Ricochet Conversations Feed and Capital New York