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4:20 PM ET, April 17, 2013

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Daily News’ doctored front-page photo from Boston bombing  —  Detail from the original photo (left) and the ‘News’ front page (right). via Charles Apple  —  The Post was derided Tuesday for apparent inaccuracies in its reporting on the bombing at the Boston Marathon.
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Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed:
Media Melts Down Over Reports Of Boston Suspect  —  Reports of “arrest” backpedaled to “no one in custody” in less than an hour.  Here's a timeline of the conflicting and confusing reports.
Nick DeSantis / The Ticker:
Digital Public Library of America Delays Debut in Wake of Marathon Bombing
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Aereo CEO Says Fox's Threat Would ‘Disenfranchise’ 54 Million People  —  With the threat by News Corp. COO Chase Carey to pull the Fox network off the airwaves and turn it into a cable network, the case of American Broadcasting Companies et. al v. Aereo officially spilled over from the law courts into the court of public opinion.
Discussion: VentureBeat
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Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Aereo Lawsuit: Networks Seek Re-Hearing After Appeals Court Setback  —  Networks seek to re-address ruling in Aereo's favor for earlier this month  —  After receiving a legal setback from an appeals court earlier this month, networks are taking another shot at blocking Barry Diller's Aereo service …
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Tumblr's David Karp on the closing of Storyboard: It 'didn't work'  —  Tumblr founder David Karp elaborated this morning on his recent decision to shut down Storyboard, the blogging behemoth's in-house editorial operation.  “We gave it a year, and after evaluating it, we decided …
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Eliza Kern / paidContent:
Tumblr CEO David Karp says at least 70 users have turned blogging into book deals
Discussion: Betabeat
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
DME13: New York Times considering cheaper subscription option  —  Asked for a key lesson learnt from developing the New York Times paywall, Paul Smurl tells Journalism.co.uk ‘we should have done it sooner’  —  The New York Times is considering new paid-for products as it heads into the third year of having a metered paywall.
Discussion: FishbowlNY
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Evan Williams' Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter  —  Ev Williams' content creation platform Medium has made its first acquisition: Matter, the Kickstarter-backed science and technology journalism startup cofounded by former GigaOM reporter Bobbie Johnson last year.
Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
The Young Turks is about to become the first news channel with a billion views on YouTube  —  If YouTube views were a currency, then The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur would be a billionaire.  Here's how he got to one billion YouTube views with news.  —  Beyonce, Bieber and... The Young Turks?
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Supreme court rules web browsing does not infringe newspapers' copyright  —  Dispute over copyright was between Meltwater, which alerts PR agencies to articles, and the Newspaper Licensing Agency  —  The UK supreme court has ruled that readers who open articles via a website link are not breaking the law …
Terri Thornton / MediaShift:
CNN's Jeff Zucker Talks Social Media, Considers Native Ads  —  “Twitter is a frenemy.”  That's how CNN's new president, Jeff Zucker, described the cable news network's relationship with social media.  In a combination luncheon speech and informal press conference at the Atlanta Press Club this week …
Discussion: Mediaite, Thanks:@steverubel
Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
65 percent of Buzzfeed's traffic now comes from mobile devices  —  The world is ending for traditional media companies, but new players who ignore the rules, and bet on mobile, will prevail, argues Huffington Post Co-Founder and Buzzfeed Chairman Kenneth Lerer.
Discussion: Poynter
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Twitter Tries to Make Its Ad Pitch More Googley, With Keyword Targeting  —  Twitter has already been showing users ads based on what they read.  Now it's trying to target them based on what they type.  —  Twitter is giving advertisers the ability to show users ads based on the content of their tweets …
 
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