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11:15 AM ET, April 27, 2012

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Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Is Twitter ruining journalism or are journalists ruining Twitter?  —  Twitter's detractors are mounting a spring offensive.  —  Choire Sicha had a revelation Wednesday as he watched journalists live-tweet Rupert Murdoch's testimony: “Who gamed a substantial number of professional news-gatherers …
Nick Denton / Gawker:
Why Anonymity Matters  —  Gawker Media is flying in the face of conventional media wisdom.  While other outlets are doing away with anonymity, we've built anonymous accounts into our new comment system.  We'll accept some disorder if that's the price of freedom in one's personal life, in politics and the press.
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Ross Neumann / rGn:   Corgis and Journalism Want to Coexist
Jay Yarow / Business Insider:   Nick Denton Is Crushing BuzzFeed And Jonah Peretti Right Now In Gawker's Comments
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
How tech's giants want to re-invent journalism  —  Some of Silicon Valley's biggest technology companies reject suggestions they are now news organisations.  —  But they nevertheless think they have the prescription for what news media must do next...  First, the disclosures …
Erik Wemple:
Murdoch flatters Huffington Post  —  The headline from Politico's Dylan Byers: “Murdoch belittles the Huffington Post.”  That judgment stems from the comments that News Corp.'s bigwig made today before the Leveson Inquiry, which is starting to sound more like the Leveson Seminar on Newspaper Business and Ethics.
Discussion: FishbowlNY, Guardian and Politico
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Estelle Shirbon / Reuters:
Hunter turns hunted as Murdoch “harassed” by press
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Are you a young dude interested in news?  All else equal, this study says you're a top paywall target  —  Here's a biggie: How do you get someone to pay for online news?  A new study (PDF here) out of the University of Texas develops a theoretical model to begin answering that question.
Guardian:
Jeremy Hunt to hand over all relevant BSkyB emails and texts  —  Culture secretary to give messages he sent to Adam Smith and News Corp executives about takeover bid to Leveson inquiry  —  Jeremy Hunt, the embattled culture secretary, is to disclose all his private correspondence over the BSkyB takeover deal to the Leveson inquiry.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Flipboard is ‘head-on competitor’ on Economist's road to all-digital  —  The Economist's CEO thinks news publishing will go all-digital at some point in the near- to mid-term.  —  “Print circulation is at record highs,” Andrew Rashbass told the Paley Center's international council in Madrid on Thursday.
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Bloomberg:
Providence Said Selling Hulu Stake at $2 Billion Value  —  Hulu.com owners Walt Disney Co. (DIS), Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) and News Corp. (NWSA) are close to buying out Providence Equity Partners Inc.'s stake at a price that values the company at $2 billion, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Wall Street Journal dives into live, continuous coverage with its new Markets Pulse stream  —  The Wall Street Journal on Monday unveiled Markets Pulse, a platform for a continuous flow of news — including blog posts, articles, videos, tweets, photos, and other elements …
Discussion: paidContent
Neal Ungerleider / Fast Company:
How Assignmint Will Change Freelance Journalism  —  A new startup hopes their integrated freelancer workflow and financials system will change the media industry.  —  New startup Assignmint has an ambitious goal: To change freelance journalism as we know it.
Discussion: newsplexer
Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:
As news shifts toward mobile, will text alerts get left behind?  —  In a blast text message to subscribers on Tuesday afternoon, The Washington Post announced that it's...ending blast text messages to subscribers, on April 30.  So don't expect to get SMS headlines like “Mitt Romney sweeps GOP primaries in five states” for much longer.
Discussion: B2B Memes
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Seven killed in bomb attacks on Nigerian newspapers  —  Seven people were killed and 26 were wounded when two Nigerian newspaper offices were attacked by bombers yesterday (26 April).  —  A radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for the attacks on Nigeria's major daily …
Brad Stone / Business Week:
Amazon vs. Publishers: The Book Battle Continues  —  There's a glaring anachronism at the center of most Amazon.com (AMZN) fulfillment centers: aisle after aisle of old-fashioned books.  Amazon stocks these volumes for the many customers who still favor the tangible pleasures of reading on paper.
Jason Del Rey / AdAge:
New York Times R&D Group Launches First Commercial Product (and It's for Brands)  —  Ricochet Helps Brands Drive Traffic to Relevant Articles, Surrounded by the Right Ads  —  The New York Times R&D Lab has spent the last six and a half years building what its chief calls the equivalent of “concept cars” for the media world.
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Journatic founder: ‘Being based in the community is not beneficial’  —  Brian Timpone sounded frustrated by press coverage of Journatic when he commented on a Mathew Ingram post this morning linking to a story that mentioned the Chicago Tribune had tapped his company to operate its TribLocal network.
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Jim Romenesko:
Journatic CEO answers critics
Discussion: Poynter and Mathew Ingram
 
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Reuters:
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Daniel Frankel / paidContent:
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Dan Rosenblum / Capital New York:
Somber tones, and attacks on Rupert Murdoch, at Overseas Press Club awards gala
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Broadcasters' Last Ditch Push to Hide Political Ad Data