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1:10 PM ET, April 16, 2013

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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.
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 …
Discussion: FishbowlNY
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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.
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.
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.
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 …
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
 
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Justin Rocket Silverman / Fast Company:
Cory Booker's #Waywire Gets New Video Tools, Partners With CollegeHumor, HuffPost Live
Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:
DMGT chairman Lord Rothermere admits even MailOnline is considering freemium model
Ken Yeung / The Next Web:
Facebook partners with Rovi to bring more in-depth movie and TV content info to user profiles
Discussion: CNET and Rovi
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
DreamWorks Animation to Add Lucian Grainge, Jason Kilar to Board of Directors
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Pearson sells off South African stake
Discussion: Bloomberg
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BBC:
James Harding appointed Director, BBC News and Current Affairs
Discussion: @joshhalliday and BBC
Mac Tully / Mercury News:
Sale of Mercury News building won't change commitment to Silicon Valley
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
16-Year-Old Media Mogul Tavi Gevinson Is Expanding Her Empire
Discussion: Media Channel and Capital New York