Mediagazer: Don't take me to your leader: the Pulitzer and the lost art of editorials

11:00 PM ET, April 17, 2012

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:

How The Tuscaloosa News' post-tornado tweeting helped bring home a Pulitzer Prize — When the Pulitzer Prize Board announced last year it would emphasize real-time reporting for the Breaking News category starting in 2012, some speculated whether we would someday see a Pulitzer Prize for tweeting.

Discussion: Guardian, New York Times, NYConvergence.com and VentureBeat

Dan Gillmor / Guardian:

Don't take me to your leader: the Pulitzer and the lost art of editorials | Dan Gillmor — No wonder the Pulitzer committee withheld any award for editorials this year. With rare exceptions, they're verbal Valium — Does any business or craft hand out awards to itself more fervently than journalism?

Erik Wemple:
Pulitzer's embrace of the Web goes only so far

Discussion: paidContent, LA Observed, Free Press and Columbia Journalism Review

Katie J.M. Baker / Jezebel:

Chelsea Clinton's Journalism Career Won't Be Helped by Her “Opening Up” — Hilary Clinton is currently the badass star of an insanely viral internet meme, and Bill is a journalist-rescuing, Nobel Prize keynote speech-giving superstar, but their daughter, Chelsea, isn't faring so well in the court of public opinion.

Discussion: nation.foxnews.com

Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:
Chelsea Clinton, TV's Dork Diva, Struggles At NBC

Discussion: New York Magazine, newsfeed.time.com, Indecision Forever, The Huffington Post, TVNewser and Gawker

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, Ideashower, MacStories, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, CNET, Lifehacker, VentureBeat and Poynter

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

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

Paywall startup Piano believes it can fix publishers' problems — It's no secret that American newspaper publishers have struggled to monetize their online content as traditional paper-based subscriptions fall. The Wall Street Journal has famously had a paywall since 1997 …

Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Content payment system Piano takes more funding to go global

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

Sarah Kendzior / The Atlantic Online:

The Day Yahoo Decided I Liked Reading About Child Murder — Algorithms are shaping how we see the world around us, with big consequences. What a machine thinks we need to know can become what we fear. — On February 8, 2012, I was on Yahoo's homepage when a headline caught my eye …

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

Hulu Plus subscriptions hits 2 million, accelerates revenue — Hulu Plus, Hulu's paid subscription service, has hit 2 million users and is helping put the company's revenue on a faster pace than last year, said Hulu's CEO Jason Kilar. Speaking at the Ad Age Digital conference in New York …

Discussion: Home Media Magazine, AdAge, the Econsultancy blog, MediaPost, MarketingVox News & Trends, TechCrunch, New York Times, The Verge and paidContent

Jim Romenesko:

NYT labor reporter's take on Guild-Times talks — New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse shares his views on the Times-Guild contract talks with colleagues: — * “As someone who has covered labor negotiations for years, I was baffled why it took nearly a year for management to move beyond its initial draconian offer.”

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Politico Pro, one year in: A premium pricetag, a tight focus, and a business success — Most nights on Capitol Hill, the Senate and House press galleries begin to thin out around dinner time. The deadline rush subsides, and all but a scatter of reporters remain.

Discussion: Politico and Free Press

Chris Barth / Forbes:

Howard Stern's $300M Sirius Suit Dismissed, But Shock Jock Will Appeal — Yesterday brought bad news for the so-called King Of All Media, as Howard Stern's $300 million lawsuit against his employer, Sirius XM, was dismissed by a New York State Supreme Court Judge.

Discussion: Deadline.com, Rolling Stone, Forbes, Media Decoder, Media & Entertainment, Hollywood Reporter, The Smoking Gun and paidContent

Inside BreakingNews:

A BreakingNews ticker for every TV channel — We're all familiar with TV news tickers, scrolling along the bottom of news channels. But what if a ticker only appeared for a few moments when a story breaks? And what if it worked across all live TV channels?

Discussion: Lost Remote

Associated Press:

Lee Enterprises 2Q loss widens on refinancing costs — DAVENPORT, Iowa — Lee Enterprises Inc., publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other newspapers, on Tuesday reported a wider loss for its latest quarter due to costs associated with an exit from bankruptcy.

Discussion: Reuters and JIMROMENESKO.COM

Luke Harding / Guardian:

The World Tomorrow: Julian Assange proves a useful idiot — The WikiLeaks founder's Hezbollah interview on his TV show debut leaves Luke Harding with more questions than answers — It was billed as Julian Assange's “explosive” TV debut. The choice of word was perhaps unfortunate given …

Discussion: New York Times, New York Magazine, News RSS : Today, @davidleigh3, Forbes, Huffington Post UK, @harrisj, BuzzFeed, The Wrap and TVNewser

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Newfangled Aggregator Trapit Hires an Old-Timer: Yahoo Editor Liz Lufkin — Liz Lufkin used to have a big say about what most of the Internet read. Now she wants to do it again. — The difference is that at Lufkin's last job, running the home page for Yahoo, she helped shape …

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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 …

Discussion: Deadline.com