Mediagazer: It Wasn't Sunil Tripathi: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster (Alexis C. Madrigal/The Atlantic Online)

9:05 PM ET, April 19, 2013

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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

On a wild night of news, a remarkable press performance — Last night was one of the wildest nights of news I can ever recall. — With Boston already on edge in the wake of the bombing of the Boston Marathon, the two suspects fingered by the FBI on Thursday set off on a rampage.

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Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

It Wasn't Sunil Tripathi: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster — How a terrible misidentification of two people with no connection to the Boston bombing spread so far, so fast — In the middle of the last night's nearly unbelievable turn of events, for a few hours …

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Alex Hern / New Statesman:

Reddit, Boston and the missing student — When crowdsourcing goes wrong. — The FBI's two suspect photos. … On 16 March, Sunil Tripathi, a student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, went missing, leaving behind a cryptic note. His whereabouts are still unknown …

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Steven Musil / CNET:

Twitter, BBC America announce video partnership — The pair will offer the first “in-tweet branded video synced to entertainment TV series,” according to a BBC America tweet. — It looks like Twitter is ready to make its rumored foray into the TV business.

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Penguin offers to scrap Apple e-book deals to end EU antitrust case — (Reuters) - British media group Pearson's Penguin unit has offered to scrap e-book deals with Apple that imposed price restrictions on Amazon and other retailers, EU antitrust regulators said on Friday.

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Ken Doctor / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The newsonomics of Pulitzers, paywalls, and investing in the newsroom — Noteworthy in the 2013 Pulitzer announcements are the multiple winners. The New York Times won four and the Star Tribune two. Having just wrapped up a session on paywalls at the NAA mediaXchange conference in Orlando …

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

Press regulation: minor bloggers excluded from exemplary damages — Political parties reach agreement on ‘micro businesses’ with turnover of less than £2m for amendment to crime and courts bill — Bloggers with a turnover of less than £2m annually and fewer than 10 employees …

William Turvill / Press Gazette:

FT avoids compulsory redundancies as 30 journalists leave — The Financial Times has withdrawn the threat compulsory redundancies, according to the National Union of Journalists. — In January the paper announced it was seeking to drop 35 editorial positions - and hire ten new digital journalists …