Mediagazer: News Corporation Announces 21st Century Fox as New Name for Independent Media and Entertainment Company (News Corporation)

6:30 PM ET, April 16, 2013

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

The Tiny News Startup That Crashed the Pulitzer Prizes — On the 12th floor of a none-too-modern office building in downtown Brooklyn are the offices of the law firm Kornblau & Kornblau. Tucked away deep in this warren of dim rooms is the brain center of InsideClimate News …

Discussion: Columbia Journalism Review, InsideClimate News, Washington Post and Prof Chris Daly's Blog

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 …

Discussion: Poynter, pressgazette.co.uk, New York Times, Denver Post, Guardian and The Pulitzer Prizes

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

Discussion: @ryanchittum, Columbia Journalism Review, FishbowlNY, Capital New York and Poynter

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.

Erik Wemple:

New York Post: 12 still dead in bombings that killed at least 3 — The New York Post yesterday proved its editorial independence. While nearly the entire media was reporting a death toll of two from the Boston bombings, the New York Post went with 12. — Since then, authorities have moved the toll to at least three dead.

Discussion: The Onion, Gawker, Poynter, New York Post and Guardian

Molly Redden / New Republic:
Boston Marathon Bombing Showed Globe, Herald's Strengths

Discussion: VentureBeat and Yahoo! News

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.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Business Insider, dailywireless.org, App Advice, Engadget and 9to5Mac

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.

Discussion: NPD Group

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
This is why Apple wants to launch iRadio

Discussion: New York Times, AppleInsider and The Verge

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, VentureBeat, WMRA, Daily Dot and Softpedia 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: The Wrap, AllThingsD, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Deadline.com, Variety, 24/7 Wall St., VentureBeat, VatorNews, Business Insider, SocialTimes, Marketing Land, Mashable, SlashGear, The Verge, CNET and Engadget

News Corporation:

News Corporation Announces 21st Century Fox as New Name for Independent Media and Entertainment Company — News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today announced that 21st Century Fox will be the new name of the independent media and entertainment company created by the proposed separation of its businesses.

Discussion: The Wrap, TVNewser, @edmundlee and @ledbetreuters

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: Guardian, One Man & His Blog, One Man & His Blog, Mashable, 10,000 Words, @rajunarisetti, Journalism.co.uk, Street Fight, @iankatz1000, Crave and The Wall Blog

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, Guardian, VentureBeat and eMedia Vitals

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