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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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Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Breaking News Is Broken — CNN's coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing has been flawed at times. — Screen Grab Courtesy of CNN/YouTube — Inspired by the events of the past week, here's a handy guide for anyone looking to figure out what exactly is going during a breaking news event.
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Choire Sicha / The Awl:
Is Your Social Media Editor Destroying Your News Organization Today? … Over the last few years, most media companies have taken on social media editors, lots of them young-ish, lots of them “digital natives.” (Some neither, of course!) Many of their jobs are construed as helping newsrooms …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Pete Williams and the threat to CNN — NBC's Pete Williams is currently trending worldwide on Twitter — and not without merit. On a major story that has been defined by inaccurate and conflicting reports and wild speculation, Williams has been calm, dilligent and correct.
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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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Will Oremus / Slate:
Reddit vs. the Media
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USA Today:
USA TODAY founder Al Neuharth dies at 89 — Allen H. Neuharth, the newspaper visionary and former Gannett chairman who founded USA TODAY, helped create a museum dedicated to news and became one of the industry's most influential and sometimes controversial figures, died Friday at his home in Cocoa Beach, Fla. He was 89.
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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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Reuters:
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 …
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