Mediagazer: Phone hacking: NoW publisher pays damages to Neil Hamilton (Lisa O'Carroll/Guardian)

8:25 AM 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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Will Oremus / Slate:

Reddit vs. the Media — Two days after the tragedy, Wolf Blitzer of CNN attracts a crowd as he waits to go on air in Copley Square, close to the site of the Boston Marathon bombings, on April 17, 2013. Boston has been inundated with media from around the country and the world.

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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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Stan Schroeder / Mashable:

Fujitsu Develops Technology That Turns Paper Into a Touchscreen — We're quickly getting used to the fact that computer, smartphone and tablet screens are meant to be touched — but what about paper? — Fujitsu has developed a technology that detects objects your finger is touching in the real world …

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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 …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Phone hacking: NoW publisher pays damages to Neil Hamilton — Ex-Tory MP, his wife and Jady Goody's estate to receive payouts as News International subsidiary settles eight cases — Reality TV star Jady Goody's estate, former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine and a former aide …

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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.

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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.

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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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Lewis DVorkin / Forbes:

Inside Forbes: On a Visit to Ole Miss, a Look Into Journalism's Past, Present and Future — Will Norton and I go back 40 years. A former Chicago Tribune reporter (a job I coveted at that time), he was a graduate student at the University of Iowa moonlighting as publisher of the campus newspaper.

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 …

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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.

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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