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11:05 AM ET, April 17, 2012

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The Pulitzer Prizes:
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 …
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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.
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.
Dean Starkman / CJR:   The Value of Prizes  —  I watched the Pulitzer announcements …
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
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Online journalism shines in 2012 Pulitzer picks
Discussion: paidContent and The Latest Word
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.”
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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.
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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.”
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
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Richard Hall / The Independent:   New book ‘exposes links between Murdoch, politicians and police’
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.
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
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: TechCrunch and AdAge
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.
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 …
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 …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Mark Lewis, Lawyer in Phone-Hacking Case, Chases News Corporation in U.S.
Discussion: Media Decoder
 
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 Earlier Picks: 
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Washington Post writer resigns after editor's note about ‘significant ethical lapse’
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Media News
Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
New York Times Top Brass Trolled by Former Editor Armed with Embarrassing Anecdote
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
‘GMA’ Appears To Nudge ‘Today’ From Top Spot After 16 Years
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Syracuse announces Mirror Awards finalists
Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ Pays Tribute To Mike Wallace
Discussion: FishbowlDC