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5:45 PM ET, April 15, 2013

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The Pulitzer Prizes:
2013 Winners and Finalists  —  Winners Letters, Drama, and Music Fiction The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (Random House) Drama Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar History Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall (Random House) …
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
Discussion: Business Insider
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.
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Texas Tribune Scores $1.5 Million Knight Foundation Grant  —  There's not a lot of good news about the the economics of serious public-interest journalism these days, so pay attention, because this is pretty good.  —  The Knight Foundation is giving a $1.5 million grant to the Texas Tribune …
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 …
David Folkenflik / NPR:
Great Long-Form Journalism, Just Clicks Away … In the age of hundreds of cable channels, millions of 140-character bulletins and an untold number of cat videos, a fear has been growing among journalists and readers that long-form storytelling may be getting lost.
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.
BBC:
Harding to be named BBC News chief  —  The ex-editor of the Times, James Harding, will be named as the BBC's director of news on Tuesday, BBC media correspondent Torin Douglas understands.  —  Mr Harding resigned in December, saying it had been made clear that publishers News International wanted a new editor.
Discussion: Guardian and @mediaguardian
Sara Morrison / Columbia Journalism Review:
New from NYT R&D: Quips  —  Now you can highlight and mark up an online New York Times article just like you would a book  —  Those who have walked through the New York Times lobby have no doubt seen Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin's data-art installation “Moveable Type,” a series of small screens …
Lorelei Marfil / WWD:
Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design Opens in London  —  STYLE SCHOOL: The first students to study at the Condé Nast College of Fashion & Design will sit down at their desks today.  For 10 weeks, the inaugural intake of 45 students from 23 countries will take part …
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.
Discussion: Capital New York
 
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