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10:55 AM ET, April 18, 2013

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Felix Gillette / Businessweek:
Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. Dodge Phone-Hacking Ruin  —  As Rupert Murdoch made his way into Parliament on July 19, 2011, to answer questions about the phone-hacking scandal engulfing his media empire, ruination hung in the air.  Readers were boycotting his papers.
Discussion: MinOnline and Poynter
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Jeremy Hodges / Bloomberg:
Executive Editor at News Corp.'s Sun Faces Bribery Charges  —  The executive editor at News Corp. (NWSA)'s Sun tabloid will be charged with authorizing bribes to public officials uncovered as part of a wider probe into wrongdoing at the company's U.K. newspapers.
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Phone hacking: NI accused of reneging on promise to settle reasonable claims  —  Lawyer recommended by ex-NoW publisher says it has raised the bar for those wishing to use its private compensation scheme  —  News International has been accused of reneging on its promise to settle …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Who Can Save the ‘Today’ Show?  —  One Wednesday last month, Ann Curry, camouflaged in a hat and trench coat, trudged into the art-deco lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.  It had been nine months since she was pushed out as co-host of the “Today” show.  Curry was now NBC's “national …
Joanna Stern / ABC News:
Twitter #Music App Launches for iPhone and Web: Listen and Discover Trending Music  —  You no longer have to be Ryan Seacrest, Ne-Yo or Jason Mraz to play with Twitter's new music discovery app.  After testing the app with music artists and influencers, Twitter #Music will be available starting today …
Cory Bergman / Breaking News Blog:
A tough call on a big story  —  A day ago, we explained how we balance speed with rumor control at Breaking News.  Then we were faced with a tough decision, challenging our convictions on a very big story.  —  Despite three major news organizations reporting an arrest in the Boston bombings, we waited.
Discussion: Hollywood Life and Charles Apple
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Ellie Hall / BuzzFeed:
Media Melts Down Over Reports Of Boston Suspect
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Daily News’ doctored front-page photo from Boston bombing
Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Guardian's Simon Rogers to join Twitter as data editor  —  Rogers will start in the new role at Twitter in San Francisco at the end of May  —  The editor of the Guardian's datablog and datastore, Simon Rogers, is moving to San Francisco to take up the role of data editor at Twitter at the end of May.
Variety:
Filmmakers Lament Extinction of Film Prints … Significant cost savings in distribution drove studios to embrace digital projection of movies.  Creatives still debate the technical advantages of digital vs. the romanticism of film, and preservationists fret over the fate of cinema classics.
Patrick Boehler / South China Morning Post:
New regulations in China ban journalists from quoting foreign media  —  On the day Chinese journalists woke up to news that the New York Times won a Pulitzer for its report on former Premier Wen Jiabao's family fortune, China's media regulator issued new regulations banning reports on foreign media coverage.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Reuters:
Late war reporter Marie Colvin listed for top UK writing prize  —  (Reuters) - Veteran American war correspondent Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria last year was nominated on Thursday for the Orwell Prize, a British literary award for political writing.  —  Colvin, a U.S. reporter …
Discussion: Telegraph, The Independent and BBC
Anna Clark / Columbia Journalism Review:
Q&A: Afi-Odelia Scruggs of PD Now What?  —  A former Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter on the “too big to ignore” paper and its place in the city  —  DETROIT, MI — Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs was one of the last hires of the Cleveland Plain Dealer during its hiring spree in the early 1990s.
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
 
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Parker Higgins / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
The Only Thing the Broadcasting Treaty Is Good For Is Crushing Innovation
Discussion: keionline.org
Ronald Grover / Reuters:
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Discussion: Business Insider
Janko Roettgers / paidContent:
65 percent of Buzzfeed's traffic now comes from mobile devices
Discussion: Poynter
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Wall Street Journal: time to look in the mirror
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Aereo CEO Says Fox's Threat Would ‘Disenfranchise’ 54 Million People
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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
New Publisher Authors Trust: Themselves
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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
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Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck:
Diller: Death Will Come For ‘Irrelevant Media’
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