Top News:
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.
Discussion:
TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Variety, VatorNews, SocialTimes, Marketing Land, Deadline.com, Business Insider, Mashable, 24/7 Wall St., SlashGear, Engadget, CNET and The Verge
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.
Discussion:
Slate, Poynter, FishbowlNY, FishbowlNY, dartcenter.org/feed, PandoDaily, Mediaite, Herald, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Week, New York Magazine, Globe and Mail, @niemanlab, Chickaboomer and UPROXX
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
The Buttry Diary, Poynter, Quartz, mediabistro.com, Wonkblog, Adweek, PressGazette, BuzzFeed, Salon, paidContent, eMedia Vitals, Poynter, The Verge, New York Times, Variety, BuzzFeed, Bloomberg, TechNet Blogs, WebProNews, The Wrap, Hot Air, io9, @geoffgrammer, The Week, Slate, @brettmartin, Mashable, @gabrielsnyder, Mediactive, Daily Dot, @robertandrews, @dylanbyers, New York Magazine, @ceodonovan, @theatlanticwire, The Stream, @jamesfallows, @clarajeffery, @digg, @palafo, @dorsey, @marklittlenews, @kashhill, NationalJournal.com, @sulliview, @pjtobia, @pjtobia, @johncabell, @natives, FishbowlNY, @jaredbkeller, @jamestaranto, @dylanbyers and The Huffington Post
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 …
Discussion:
FishbowlNY
RELATED:
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Pulitzer goes to New York Times ‘Snow Fall’ journalist
Pulitzer goes to New York Times ‘Snow Fall’ journalist
Discussion:
pressgazette.co.uk, New York Times and Denver Post
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.
Discussion:
One Man & His Blog, Guardian, One Man & His Blog, Street Fight, Mashable, Journalism.co.uk, @iankatz1000, Media Week, @rajunarisetti and Crave
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 …
Discussion:
NPR, Poynter, Daily Dot, WMRA and Softpedia News
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.
Discussion:
VentureBeat, GigaOM, Light Reading, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, Ubergizmo, Adweek, Engadget, The Verge and Electronista
Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
NPR Series on Race Aims to Build a Wider Audience — NPR's race, ethnicity and culture reporting initiative will make its broadcast debut this week with a four-part series called “Changing Races” for the morning and evening news programs. — The digital part of the initiative, a blog called Code Switch, started a week ago.
Discussion:
FishbowlDC
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.
Discussion:
Flattr Blog, The Awl, eMedia Vitals and The Next Web
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 …
Discussion:
Hollywood Reporter, Variety, New York Times and Broadcasting & Cable
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.
Discussion:
The Drum and Daily Mail
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 …
Discussion:
Philly.com and News & Tech