Mediagazer: Design isn't just for the big guys: In Memphis, the Commercial Appeal retells MLK's last 32 hours (Justin Ellis/Nieman Journalism Lab)

7:10 AM ET, April 12, 2013

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Twitter Acquires We Are Hunted, Should Open New Marketing Doors For Artists — The music discovery service We Are Hunted has announced that it's joining Twitter. The news hit almost at the same moment that American Idol host Ryan Seacrest tweeted about “playing with @twitter's new music app.”

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Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Design isn't just for the big guys: In Memphis, the Commercial Appeal retells MLK's last 32 hours — It's been 45 years since Martin Luther King, Jr.'s murder was on the front pages of newspapers around the country. For The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, the story was a local one …

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Janko Roettgers / paidContent:

Netflix users watched four billion hours of video in Q1 — Looks like House of Cards is starting to have an impact: Netflix members watched more than four billion hours of video during the first three months of 2013, according to the company's CEO Reed Hastings, who took to Facebook to publish the milestone Thursday.

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Flipboard Adds 3 Million Users Since Launch Of Personalized Magazines, Over 500,000 Magazines Created To Date — Mobile magazine Flipboard revealed today that over half a million personalized magazines have been created on its platform since the launch of the new feature just two weeks prior.

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Jonathan Stray / Nieman Journalism Lab:

How does a country get to open data? What Taiwan can teach us about the evolution of access — TAIPEI — I recently had the pleasure of teaching a two-day data journalism workshop at the Commonwealth Magazine Group in Taiwan's capital city. The signature moment came when I showed …

Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Apple and Universal Music agreement on streaming iRadio service imminent — Apple is expected to sign the largest record label perhaps as soon as next week, sources say. Warner Music is right behind. — Apple is expected to sign its first internet radio licensing agreement …

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Nitasha Tiku / Betabeat:

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Jack Shafer:

Our national pastime: Press criticism — In early 1946, Albert Camus emptied into New Yorker press critic A.J. Liebling's ear his plan for a new newspaper. — “It would be a critical newspaper, to be published one hour after the first editions of the other papers, twice a day …

Jim Romenesko:

Missing the good old days when Pulitzer finalists were leaked — I responded: “I think the demise of the old E&P, which was obsessed with the prizes, has a lot to do with it.” Joe Strupp used to do a great job getting judges to leak the finalists to Editor & Publisher.

Kelly Faircloth / Betabeat:

Yup, Looks Like It's Mostly Overworked Bloggers Who Use Google Reader — As part of its quest to build the perfect Google Reader replacement, Digg is surveying 17,000 people about how they used the service. With 8,000 responses already in, Digg has released some insight into what they've found.

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