Mediagazer: Coloring books and puppets: California Watch unveils a new section just for kids (Adrienne LaFrance/Nieman Journalism Lab)

11:35 AM ET, April 18, 2012

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The fight gets dirty: Sun accuses rival of using ex-MI6 men to tail civil servant — The managing editor of The Sun hit back at one of News International's chief tormentors yesterday, turning on The Guardian during an appearance at a Parliamentary committee.

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

AG warns MPs to be ‘cautious’ in report — MPs drawing up a report into News of the World phone hacking have been warned by the attorney general to be “cautious in its language” to ensure potential criminal trials do not collapse. This means the long-awaited report from the Commons culture …

Bloomberg:
Prosecutors Weigh Phone-Hacking Charges for Journalists, Police

Discussion: New York Times, Guardian, Journalism.co.uk, ITV News and @benfenton

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: LA Observed and Erik Wemple

Dan Gillmor / Guardian: Don't take me to your leader: the Pulitzer and the lost art of editorials

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Labor Dept.'s new policies for journalists may affect market-moving data — The United States Department of Labor is changing the way journalists can prepare stories based on embargoed data, and news organizations are concerned that the new policies could keep them from filing stories with this data …

Discussion: Bloomberg and Talking Biz News

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

NBC's London Olympics strategy: If it moves, stream it — Yes, you will be able to see men's doubles table tennis live this summer on nbcolympics.com, right after you finish watching those premiere swimming and track & field events. — Speaking to the New York Times Tuesday, Rick Cordella …

Discussion: VentureBeat, The Verge, Media Decoder and Techland

New York Times:

Pandora Courts Local Advertisers, by Offering Well-Defined Listeners — The music was pumping and the finger food laid out in abundance one recent evening in a subterranean Manhattan bar, as executives of Pandora Media, the Internet radio service, mingled with some of their most prized new advertisers.

Discussion: iMediaConnection Blog

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Physical media is dead — long live the app — Over the weekend, Hunter Walk (a friend of mine who works for YouTube) tweeted about brands offering apps built on the Spotify platform. Spotify is likely to introduce these branded apps from the likes of Intel, AT&T, Reebok and McDonalds at an Ad Age event this week.

Discussion: AllThingsD and eMedia Vitals

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

Facebook tests ‘trending articles’ feature to encourage users to try social reader apps — Facebook appears to be testing new feature to highlight social reader articles within users' News Feeds. — Some users now see a “trending articles” section of their feeds that includes headlines …

Discussion: Poynter

News.me:

Getting the News - Martin Nisenholtz — This week we sat down with Martin Nisenholtz, former senior vice president, digital at the New York Times. The Times was one of the first print publications to really embrace what the Internet could offer journalism, and has proven itself able …

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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 …

Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Coloring books and puppets: California Watch unveils a new section just for kids — It's often said that kids today aren't interested in the news. Could it be because traditional newsrooms aren't reporting stories with them in mind? — Most third-graders may not need or want comprehensive coverage of, say, tax reform.

Julie Moos / Poynter:

LA Times publishes graphic front page photo of US soldiers with Afghan corpses — The Los Angeles Times published graphic photos in print and online this morning of U.S. soldiers posing with Afghan corpses. — Eighteen such photos were provided by an anonymous soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division …

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times

Ryan Kim / GigaOM:

BuzzFeed's Peretti: Design engaging ads made for sharing — BuzzFeed has been gaining more attention for its ability to lure eyeballs with its funny animal pictures and more recently with its more serious editorial content. But equally impressive is the way the company is pushing the future …

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest