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9:45 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 …
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube Again Beats Viacom's Massive Copyright Infringement Lawsuit  —  After an appellate court revived Viacom's claims that YouTube hosted copyright infringing work, U.S. District judge Louis Stanton has again given the defendant a victory.  —  Viacom has been hit with a devastating legal loss.
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 …
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.
Teresa Novellino / Upstart Business Journal:
Hyperlocal startup Street Fight owns the block, hits profitability on 2nd anniversary  —  Two years ago, Laura Rich and David Hirschman founded an online news and interview site called Street Fight to cover companies in the burgeoning “hyperlocal” space, including media, retail, and location-based technology startups.
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Jackie Bischof / Wall Street Journal:
Six Seconds to Impress Tribeca on Vine … If the idea of getting a film into the Tribeca Film Festival seems daunting, try impressing judges in six seconds using Twitter's film-making app, Vine.  The medium may demand brevity, but there are no limits on creativity, judging from the shortlist released …
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.
 
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