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1:15 PM ET, April 18, 2013

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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 …
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: FishbowlNY, MinOnline and Poynter
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Max Read / Gawker:
The Post's ‘Person of Interest’ Is a Local High-School Track Runner  —  “BAG MEN,” the New York Post's front cover brays this morning, underneath a photo of two Boston Marathon spectators.  “Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.”  After its embarrassing performance on Monday …
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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 …
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.
Greg Sandoval / The Verge:
News war: Aereo takes out full-page New York Times ad as network threats heat up  —  On Tuesday, Aereo entered the public relations battle against the broadcast TV companies trying to shut it down: it took out a full page ad in The New York Times to publicize its court victories.
Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:
Anonymous raises $54,000 to start a news site  —  “Your Anon News” set out to raise $2K to move from Twitter and Tumblr to a real website.  —  On Wednesday an Indiegogo fundraiser set up by “Jackal Anon” closed, raising $54,668 to set up a dedicated news site for Anonymous.
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Guggenheim Digital in Talks for Vevo Stake  —  Guggenheim Digital Media has had talks with online music-video company Vevo, and would be interested in taking a controlling share, people familiar with the matter said.  —  Word of the talks come as Guggenheim, a newly formed division …
Jakob Schiller / Wired:
Philly Inquirer's Hard Years Are Microcosm of Newspapers' Long Goodbye  —  The extreme downsizing of the Philadelphia Inquirer is a stand-in for what we know has been happening to newspapers across the country for the last decade.  Since its bankruptcy filing in 2009 it has moved …
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: Kirk LaPointe's … and Bloomberg
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.
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
 
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