Mediagazer: Liberty Global Said to Weigh Kabel Deutschland Takeover Bid (Bloomberg)

1:35 PM ET, April 17, 2013

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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.

Discussion: Charles Apple, Poynter, Mediaite, The New York Observer, Erik Wemple, New York Magazine, New York Post, The Huffington Post, Softpedia News, Vanity Fair and msnbc.com

Nick DeSantis / The Ticker:

Digital Public Library of America Delays Debut in Wake of Marathon Bombing — The Digital Public Library of America has postponed its long-planned public debut that had been scheduled to take place this week at the Boston Public Library, in the wake of Monday's explosions at the Boston Marathon …

Discussion: Digital Public Library … and American Libraries Magazine

Erik Wemple:
New York Post: 12 still dead in bombings that killed at least 3

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog, The Onion, Gawker, CNN, Poynter, Poynter, Capital New York, The Wrap, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and The Huffington Post

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.

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

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

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 …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, PRWeek, The Register, New Statesman, The Drum and Out-Law News

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 …

Discussion: paidContent, VentureBeat, Poynter, Broadcasting & Cable, Indiawest.com, Zatz Not Funny!, Adweek and Variety

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.

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, Rehak/Stuebing Mostly Media and Los Angeles Times

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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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?

Bloomberg:

Liberty Global Said to Weigh Kabel Deutschland Takeover Bid — John Malone's Liberty Global Inc. (LBTYA) is considering a takeover bid for Kabel Deutschland Holding AG (KD8), the cable provider that's also a takeover target for Vodafone Group Plc (VOD), two people familiar with the matter said.

Discussion: Dow Jones Newswires, Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Digital TV Europe, Rapid TV News, Deadline.com and Los Angeles Times

Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck:

Diller: Death Will Come For ‘Irrelevant Media’ — The IAC chairman told NAA mediaXchange attendees that “sleepy” companies that behave like “recovering alcoholics” as ad sales continue to drop off will face extinction in the age of disruption. Diller also said he was surprised that newspaper …