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‘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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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.
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Gawker, Erik Wemple, @mlcalderone, The Atlantic Online and @mlcalderone

Digital Public Library of America Delays Debut in Wake of Marathon Bombing
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Digital Public Library … and American Libraries Magazine


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.
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VentureBeat
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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 …
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paidContent, The New Yorker Blog, Hollywood Reporter, Poynter, Broadcasting & Cable, Indiawest.com, Adweek, Zatz Not Funny! and Variety


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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Columbia Journalism Review
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Tumblr CEO David Karp says at least 70 users have turned blogging into book deals
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Betabeat


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.
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FishbowlNY


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.
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Medium, Felix Salmon, The Next Web, Guardian, Poynter, VentureBeat, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, Journalism.co.uk, @bobbiejohnson, Medium, @jayrosen_nyu and WebProNews


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 …
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Mediaite, Thanks:@steverubel


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 …
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Wall Street Journal, PRWeek, The Register, New Statesman, Plagiarism Today, The Drum and Out-Law News


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?


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.
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Poynter


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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Twitter Advertising, GigaOM, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Adweek, CNET, TechCrunch, Marketing Pilgrim, Ubergizmo, WebProNews, Consumerist, The Verge, The Drum, Mashable, The Next Web and Digits