Mediagazer: Wall Street Journal: time to look in the mirror (Dean Starkman/Columbia Journalism Review)

6:30 PM ET, April 17, 2013

Top News:

‘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, 10,000 Words, Poynter, Nieman Journalism Lab, Mediaite, PandoDaily, The New York Observer, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Jim Romenesko, Softpedia News, New York Post, Vanity Fair, The Verge and msnbc.com

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

CNN Explains Walking Back Marathon ‘Arrest’ Report — On Wednesday afternoon, CNN's John King walked back his earlier report that “an arrest” had been made in the Boston marathon bombing, wrapping up a chaotic hour of conflicting reports on networks and news sites over whether an arrest had been made.

Discussion: Gawker, Tampabay.com, Mediaite, Poynter, TVNewser, CBS Boston, The Raw Story and New York Magazine

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.

Discussion: ChartGirl, The Atlantic Online, Gawker, Erik Wemple, @mlcalderone, The Daily Beast and @mlcalderone

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: AdAge and VentureBeat

Tim Kenneally / The Wrap:
Aereo Lawsuit: Networks Seek Re-Hearing After Appeals Court Setback

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

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 …

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET and Columbia Journalism Review

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

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

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

Dean Starkman / Columbia Journalism Review:

Wall Street Journal: time to look in the mirror — Its Pulitzer shutout reaches six years — Stop me if you're heard this one: … For a long time, I've been rooting for the newsroom of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal to win a Pulitzer Prize (not the Op-Ed page, which seems to have no trouble).

Discussion: Big News Network.com and Talking Biz News

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?

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 …

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