Mediagazer: Amazon gains against Apple's iTunes in music downloads (Alistair Barr/Reuters)

3:35 PM ET, April 16, 2013

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

This is why Apple wants to launch iRadio — Apple is still dominating the digital download business, with eight out of ten digital music buyers getting their tracks from iTunes in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to new numbers released Tuesday by the NPD Group.

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Alistair Barr / Reuters:

Amazon gains against Apple's iTunes in music downloads — SAN FRANCISCO, April 16 (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has grabbed more than a fifth of the market for digital music downloads, helped by the launch of its own tablet computers and aggressive pricing, according to an industry study released on Tuesday.

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Pulitzer goes to New York Times ‘Snow Fall’ journalist — The Pulitzer for feature writing was given to the Times's John Branch ‘for his evocative narrative’ — Copyright: By AMagill on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — The journalist behind multimedia long-form feature Snow Fall …

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Erik Maza / WWD:
Pulitzer Board Continues to Snub the Wall Street Journal's Reporting

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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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Alex Sherman / Bloomberg:

Time Warner Cable to Offer Live Mobile TV for Apple Devices — Time Warner Cable Inc., the second- largest U.S. cable operator, is adding live out-of-home programming for the first time to its TWC TV application, letting customers watch shows on Apple Inc. (AAPL) mobile devices.

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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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Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:

Digital advertising reaches a record $36.6 billion in 2012 — Digital advertising revenues reached a record $36.6 billion in 2012, propelled in part by triple-digit growth in mobile advertising and strong gains in video, according to newly released statistics from the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

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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.

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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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