Mediagazer: Esquire Network Pushes Launch Date Back to Summer (Tim Kenneally/The Wrap)

12:05 PM ET, April 16, 2013

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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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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Reporters Ran In Boston Marathon Before Covering Tragedy — When New York Times reporter John Eligon got out the shower on Monday afternoon, he saw a text message from a friend asking if he was okay. Eligon had just returned to his hotel after running the Boston Marathon, so the question wasn't out of the ordinary.

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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.

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 …

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The Pulitzer Prizes:

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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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Pulitzer goes to New York Times ‘Snow Fall’ journalist

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Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

The Guardian's new GuardianWitness app opens up reporting to the masses — Guardian News & Media, the Guardian Media Group division responsible for publishing Guardian.co.uk and Guardiannews.com in the US, has announced a new platform enabling the public to submit content directly to Guardian journalists.

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Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter:

NPR Says It Was Hacked by ‘Syrian Electronic Army’ — The U.S. public radio station says its website and several Twitter accounts were taken over by the group said to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime. — NPR says several of its news services - including NPR.org …

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Philadelphia Inquirer & the Daily News launch pay sites — Philadelphia's newspapers launched subscription sites Monday: Inquirer.com and PhillyDailyNews.com. Philly.com, which will continue to feature content from both papers, will remain free. — “The membership websites …

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Chris Morran / Consumerist:

Comcast Jumps On Basic Cable-Encrypting Bandwagon — For years, if you had a cable connection running into your home, you could just plug the cable straight into your TV, call your provider and get the most basic cable channels without the hassle of a set-top box.

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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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David Meyer / GigaOM:

Twitter forces Flattr to stop letting users tip ‘favorited’ tweets — Less than a month after Flattr made it possible to leave virtual tips for tweeters by favoriting tweets, Twitter has told the Swedish micropayments company to cut it out. — Flattr, co-founded by The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde, is quite a simple system.

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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:

Esquire Network Pushes Launch Date Back to Summer — The move to summer will allow the rebranded G4 network to add more programming — The Esquire Network won't be launching as soon as expected. — The NBCUniversal rebrand of the G4 Network, which was due to kick off April 22 …

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