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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.
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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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Molly Redden / New Republic:
Boston Marathon Bombing Showed Globe, Herald's Strengths — Immediately after a pair of explosions wracked the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, those who turned to the city's two major newsrooms for facts would have found that both the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald's websites were down.
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Yahoo! News and NPR
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 …
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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Pulitzer goes to New York Times ‘Snow Fall’ journalist
Pulitzer goes to New York Times ‘Snow Fall’ journalist
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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
Pulitzer Board Continues to Snub the Wall Street Journal's Reporting
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@ryanchittum, Columbia Journalism Review, FishbowlNY, Capital New York and Poynter
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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Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, dailywireless.org, App Advice, 9to5Mac and Engadget
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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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
This is why Apple wants to launch iRadio
This is why Apple wants to launch iRadio
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CNET, NYT Bits, AppleInsider and The Verge
Todd Cunningham / The Wrap:
NFL Broadcaster Pat Summerall Dies at 82 — He was John Madden's booth partner for football games on CBS and Fox for 21 years — Pat Summerall, a well-known NFL voice for a generation of TV viewers and John Madden's broadcasting partner for two decades, has died.
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Yahoo! News, Media & Entertainment, Broadcasting & Cable, Deadspin and BuzzFeed
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.
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TVNewser, @ledbetreuters and @edmundlee
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Twitter Won't Challenge Hulu in Internet TV … Hoping to turn tweeters into viewers, Twitter appears to be gearing up to take on Hulu as a destination for premium TV video content: The social site is in advanced talks with Viacom and NBCUniversal to license content, Bloomberg reported.
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VatorNews, AllThingsD and GigaOM
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Study shows newspaper readers are engaged, but local papers need to do more on mobile — A new survey from the Newspaper Association of America and Nielsen finds that newspaper readers are highly engaged. But they have to do more on mobile, particularly as ad revenue plunges.
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Jeanine Poggi / AdAge:
CNN Reboots to Grab Non-News Ad Dollars — Cabler Markets Its Personalities, New Genres to Prove It's About More Than ‘Politics and War’ — It looks like CNN is gunning for ad dollars that typically go to networks like NatGeo and Travel channel, as the founder of 24-hour cable news broadens beyond its programming base.
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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NPR, Poynter, VentureBeat, WMRA, Daily Dot and Softpedia News
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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