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5:45 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.
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.
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.
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
Erik Wemple:
Pulitzer Prizes: Editorial writers come up short
Discussion: LA Observed, Lens and Deadline.com
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Online journalism shines in 2012 Pulitzer picks
Discussion: paidContent and ap.org
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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Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:
Huffington Post brings home the blogosphere's first ever Pulitzer
Discussion: The Editorialiste
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why the Huffington Post doesn't equivocate on issues like global warming
Discussion: Grist
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: @peretti
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 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 …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:   Mark Lewis, Lawyer in Phone-Hacking Case, Chases News Corporation in U.S.
Lindsay Rubino / Broadcasting & Cable:
NBC Owned Stations, Comcast Sports Group Strike Ad Sales Partnership  —  Station group to sell national advertising for Comcast SportsNets in four markets  —  NBC Owned Television Stations and Comcast Sports Group have struck a new national advertising sales partnership …
Discussion: Multichannel
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
Allan Wolper / Editor & Publisher ®:
Ethics Corner: The Picture Told The Whole Story  —  Kristyna Wentz-Graff, her Milwaukee Journal Sentinel press credentials dangling from her neck, snapped a series of shots of about 50 Occupy protesters marching near campus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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+ …
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.
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 …
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
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.
 
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Washington Post writer resigns after editor's note about ‘significant ethical lapse’
Discussion: Media News
Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
New York Times Top Brass Trolled by Former Editor Armed with Embarrassing Anecdote
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Syracuse announces Mirror Awards finalists
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Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ Pays Tribute To Mike Wallace
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David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Amazon's E-Book Pricing a Constant Thorn for Publishers
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Why CBS pulled the trigger too soon on the Bush National Guard story
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Cuomo Aide Slammed Reporter In Dossier
Discussion: Gothamist and Capital New York
Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:
1.5 million pages of ancient texts to be made accessible online
Discussion: The Verge
 

 
From Techmeme:

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and rejoining” via its Android, iOS, and web apps

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
TSMC unveils a new chip manufacturing technology called A16; the company plans to start producing its ultra-advanced 1.6nm chips by 2026

 
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