Mediagazer: Read It Later's app goes free and gets a new name, Pocket (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

10:40 AM ET, April 17, 2012

Top News:

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

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Beleaguered Philadelphia Inquirer newsroom hopes Pulitzer win signals a new beginning — The Philadelphia Inquirer has been in the news a lot lately, but on Monday it was for the right reasons: the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for its investigation into violence in city schools.

Discussion: Online NewsHour, The Educated Reporter, Philly.com and IRE.org, Thanks:@myersnews

Dean Starkman / CJR:

The Value of Prizes — I watched the Pulitzer announcements for the first time this afternoon, just upstairs in the World Room—and, well, it's a bit of anti-climax, as a matter of fact. Sig Gissler read the announcements in the lowest-key manner possible to an unpacked room …

Erik Wemple:
Pulitzer Prizes: Editorial writers come up short

Discussion: ap.org, LA Observed and Deadline.com

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Pulitzer Committee Confirms: Editorial Writing Is Worthless

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Media & Entertainment, ReadWriteWeb, Journalism.co.uk, WWD Media Headlines, LA Observed, Jacket Copy, New York Times, The Stranger …, Capital New York, @mlcalderone, @jackshafer and The Wrap

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

Discussion: paidContent and The Latest Word

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.”

CJR:

Six degrees of aggregation — 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, how it came to surpass the traffic …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest and @peretti

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
Arianna Huffington and Tim O'Brien on HuffPost's Pulitzer Win

Discussion: Poynter and New York Magazine

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Huffington Post brings home the blogosphere's first ever Pulitzer

Discussion: The Editorialiste

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Read It Later Rebrands As Free App, Pocket; Updates UI With Filters, Favorites And More — Read It Later, an app that allows you to save articles and other content on the web to “read them later, is debuting a new version of its service and rebranding as “Pocket.

Discussion: The Next Web, Poynter, VentureBeat, CNET, MacStories and Lifehacker

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Read It Later's app goes free and gets a new name, Pocket — Read It Later is making its app completely free — no more $2.99 Pro version — and renaming it Pocket to express “how simple it is to take any content users discover with them, no matter where they go.”

Robert Andrews / paidContent:

Content payment system Piano takes more funding to go global — Piano Media, the paid content platform currently operating bundled kiosks in Slovakia and Slovenia, is taking a €2 million ($2.6 million) second round of venture investment to boost its globalisation ambitions for and general expansion.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, eMedia Vitals, Journalism.co.uk and TechCrunch

BuzzFeed:

Chelsea Clinton, TV's Dork Diva, Struggles At NBC — Hillary and Bill have worked their way back into our hearts, and now it's Chelsea's turn. The only problem: she's “terrible” on television, as network executives privately admit. — Amy Sly for BuzzFeed

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Study: Those Social Media Logos On TV Actually Work — There is hardly a program or ad on TV these days that doesn't ask its viewers to like its Facebook page or tweet about it. According to a new survey by global consulting firm Accenture, there's a simple reason for this: those social media symbols actually work.

Discussion: Business Wire, NetNewsCheck Latest and Home Media Magazine

Andrew Pulver / Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch's battles with Harold Evans at the Times to become a film — Evans's memoir Good Times, Bad Times about his time as editor of the Sunday Times and the Times is to be turned into a film — Rupert Murdoch's battle to establish himself as a newspaper tycoon at the heart …

Discussion: Digital Spy and Variety

Richard Hall / The Independent:

New book ‘exposes links between Murdoch, politicians and police’ — A new book which promises to expose the connections between Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group and senior politicians and police officers is to be published this week. Dial M for Murdoch, by the Labour MP Tom Watson …

Lauren Kirchner / Capital New York:

Reuters Institute hosts a debate taking stock of the crisis in British (and U.S.) journalism — In the short time during which The Leveson Inquiry in Britain has been investigating the practice of phone-hacking by Rupert Murdoch's News International employees, the revelations have been as shocking …

Discussion: Reuters Institute … and Press Gazette

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: Betabeat, The Next Web, msnbc.com and xkcd.com

Ed Pilkington / Guardian:

Lawyer pursuing phone hacking in US considers asking FBI for help — Cases involve three unidentified clients who say their phones were hacked by the News of the World on American soil — Mark Lewis, the tenacious lawyer who has been at the forefront of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal …