Mediagazer: Dish Launches $25.5 Billion Bid for Sprint (Wall Street Journal)

4:55 AM ET, April 16, 2013

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2013 Winners and Finalists — Journalism Public Service Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, FL Breaking News Reporting Staff of The Denver Post Investigative Reporting David Barstow and Alejandra Xanic von Bertrab of The New York Times Explanatory Reporting Staff of The New York Times Local …

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Erik Maza / WWD:

Pulitzer Board Continues to Snub the Wall Street Journal's Reporting — SHUTOUT FOR THE JOURNAL: In the six years Rupert Murdoch's owned it, The Wall Street Journal has changed a great deal — some would argue for the best, others for the worst. But the one group that appears to still …

Bloomberg:

Twitter Said to Seek Deals With Viacom, NBC to Feature TV Online — Twitter Inc. is close to reaching partnerships with television networks that would bring more high-quality video content and advertising to the social site, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

Boston explosions: Twitter acts as journalism's ombudsman — When tragedy strikes America, Twitter remembers bad reporting. — Within hours of the massacre in Connecticut that claimed the lives of 20 elementary school children and six adults, the news media had passed along a full story's worth of erroneous information.

Mac Tully / Mercury News:

Sale of Mercury News building won't change commitment to Silicon Valley — Dear Mercury News readers: — I want to tell you about a change in our operations announced Monday that should be invisible to you because it won't impact the content or delivery of the newspaper.

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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:

DreamWorks Animation to Add Lucian Grainge, Jason Kilar to Board of Directors — Jeffrey Katzenberg announces they will replace Nathan Myhrvold and Richard Sherman at an upcoming shareholders meeting. — DreamWorks Animation SKG has announced that Lucian Grainge and Jason Kilar will be nominated …

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BBC:

James Harding appointed Director, BBC News and Current Affairs — The BBC has announced that James Harding has been appointed as Director, BBC News and Current Affairs. — Harding previously worked at The Times where he was editor from 2007 until 2012. Before that he held a number of international posts at the Financial Times.

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Andrew Gilligan / Telegraph:

EU pours millions into groups seeking state control of press — The European Union is quietly pouring millions of pounds into initiatives and groups seeking state-backed regulation of the press, including key allies of the controversial Hacked Off campaign.

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Guardian:

LSE students contradict BBC claims over North Korea trip — Some say they only became aware of presence of Panorama journalists when they arrived in the capital, Pyongyang — The BBC's claims that it received the informed consent of London School of Economics students who accompanied …

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Guardian:
LSE students on North Korea trip with BBC team ‘have received threats’

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Kobo launches $169 ‘Porsche of e-readers’ for power users — Kobo is launching a higher-end e-reader, the $169 Aura HD, aimed at users who read several ebooks a week. While the Aura is more expensive than the competition, Kobo says its market research supports customers' desire for such a device.

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Wall Street Journal:

Dish Launches $25.5 Billion Bid for Sprint — Satellite-TV provider Dish Network Corp. is making a $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel Corp., an effort to derail the No. 3 U.S. wireless carrier's acquisition by Softbank Corp. of Japan. — Dish said Monday it is offering to pay $4.76 in cash …

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Henry Blodget / Business Insider: This Man Wants To Kill Your Cable And Wireless Companies

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Simon & Schuster launches ebook lending pilot with New York City public libraries — Simon & Schuster will finally make its ebooks available to libraries, through a one-year trial with New York City's public libraries. The publisher is making all of its titles available in the trial …

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Emma Bazilian / Adweek:

16-Year-Old Media Mogul Tavi Gevinson Is Expanding Her Empire — Tavi Gevinson has been called everything from the future of fashion to the future of journalism (by Lady Gaga, no less). Pretty heady titles for anybody, especially a blogger who has yet to finish her junior year of high school.

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