Mediagazer: Late war reporter Marie Colvin listed for top UK writing prize (Reuters)

8:00 AM ET, April 18, 2013

Top News:

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, Charles Apple and Inside

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: Poynter, Gawker, Associated Press, TVNewser, CBS Boston, Tampabay.com, The Raw Story, Mediaite, New York Magazine and Yahoo! News

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: Jim Romenesko, ChartGirl, The Atlantic Online, Erik Wemple, Gawker, Mediaite, Daily Dot, PandoDaily, The Daily Beast, @mlcalderone and @mlcalderone

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Daily News’ doctored front-page photo from Boston bombing

Discussion: Media News, 10,000 Words, Mediaite, Nieman Journalism Lab, PandoDaily, Poynter, Charles Apple, The New Yorker Blog, The New York Observer, New York Times, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, Jim Romenesko, Charles Apple, Softpedia News, Erik Wemple and Vanity Fair

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 …

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

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

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.

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.

Parker Higgins / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

The Only Thing the Broadcasting Treaty Is Good For Is Crushing Innovation — For those of us following the continuing saga of the unnecessary and harmful WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, its latest manifestation is starting to have the feel of a tired movie franchise.

Discussion: keionline.org

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: Columbia Journalism Review, WWD Media Headlines, VentureBeat and CNET

Eliza Kern / paidContent:
Tumblr CEO David Karp says at least 70 users have turned blogging into book deals

Discussion: Betabeat

Ronald Grover / Reuters:

Exclusive: Guggenheim advises on Hulu sale, may also bid - sources — (Reuters) - Hulu has hired Guggenheim Partners to advise on a sale of the company, even as the financial services firm is considering making its own bid for the video streaming service, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Discussion: Business Insider

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, VentureBeat, Poynter, Broadcasting & Cable and The Wrap

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Twitter Tries to Make Its Ad Pitch More Googley, With Keyword Targeting — Twitter has already been showing users ads based on what they read. Now it's trying to target them based on what they type. — Twitter is giving advertisers the ability to show users ads based on the content of their tweets …