Mediagazer: Amazon's Goodreads Purchase Scuttled Apple Partnership (Digits)

4:20 PM ET, April 18, 2013

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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 …

Daniel D'Addario / Salon:

Post editor on “Bag Men” cover: “We did not identify them as suspects” — After printing a photo of two young men suggesting they were suspects, the New York Post's editor defends it — The New York Post's editor, Col Allan, has issued a statement to Salon about today's cover story.

Discussion: New York Post, Poynter, The Huffington Post, ABCNEWS, Gawker, Capital New York, Pressing Issues, Mediaite, Infowars, Guardian, Gothamist, Charles Apple, Hollywood Life and The Gateway Pundit

The Daily Beast:

How the Internet Accused a High School Student of Terrorism — Online sleuths thought they nailed two suspects in the Boston bombing—and there they were on the cover of the ‘New York Post’ the next day. But now everyone's backpedaling in a big way. — Don't blame Rupert Murdoch. Blame the Internet.

Discussion: Salon, Digits and PetaPixel

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 …

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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: FishbowlNY and MinOnline

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 …

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

On MSNBC, a Gun Debate That Fox Doesn't See — President Obama hadn't finished his first sentence on Wednesday when the Fox News Channel cut away from his Rose Garden remarks about the Senate's defeat of a measure that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers.

Discussion: TVNewser, Mediaite, The Huffington Post and Inside Cable News

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.

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Laura June / The Verge:

Digital Public Library of America launches beta web portal — The library of the future finally arrives — The Digital Public Library of America has launched a beta of its website today. The previously planned launch event was to be held at the Boston Public Library this week …

Discussion: NPR, Marketplace.org, Harvard News, Engadget and Ubergizmo

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.

Digits:

Amazon's Goodreads Purchase Scuttled Apple Partnership — Amazon.com's announcement last month that it was purchasing book-recommendation site Goodreads did more than land the e-commerce giant a social-networking service. It also thwarted a possible partnership between the reading social network and Apple.

Discussion: AppleInsider and SlashGear

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 …