Mediagazer: With Boston Manhunt, Media Is Part of a Story It Is Covering (Brian Stelter/New York Times)

5:35 AM ET, April 21, 2013

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

How a Webcam Pointed at a Police Radio Won the Internet Friday — The events in Boston — starting Monday with a pair of explosions that killed three and injured 176 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon — came to a dramatic close Friday night with the capture of 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev …

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Brian Stelter / New York Times:

With Boston Manhunt, Media Is Part of a Story It Is Covering — Reporters, camera crews and ordinary citizens with camera phones were squarely in the middle of the manhunt in Boston that gripped the nation on Friday, and the result was some of the most startling — and at times unnerving — news coverage in years.

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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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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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Jim Roberts / @nycjim:

Officials say decision to release photos of suspects was motivated in part to limit damage done by Reddit. http://wapo.st/XNTfky

Discussion: Washington Post

Dylan Byers / Politico:

Murdoch defends the New York Post — News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has weighed in on his tabloid's decision to run photos of two men — not the suspects of the Boston Marathon bombing — online and in print under the headline “Bag Men: Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.”

Discussion: @rupertmurdoch, FishbowlNY, Mediaite and The Huffington Post

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

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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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Matt Waite / Poynter:

How sensor journalism can help us create data, improve our storytelling — Data journalism, meet sensor journalism. You two should talk. — What's sensor journalism? I'll get to that. But first, let me tell you a story about bugs — and a pair of gadgets that sat for months in a box under John Keefe's bed.

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Several CBS Twitter accounts hijacked by Syrian conflict propagandists (update) — CBS has confirmed on Twitter that several of its accounts were compromised earlier today, including those for 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, and a local Denver affiliate. While the perpetrator of the hijack is unknown …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, @cbsmatt, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, CNET and @cbsmatt

Claire Atkinson / New York Post:

Al Jazeera eyeballing Tennis Channel — Al Jazeera Media Networks is eyeing the Tennis Channel as it looks to become a player in the US sports market, The Post has learned. — Qatar-based Al Jazeera has an affiliate called BeIN Sport, a global network of sports channels that could likely benefit from a toehold here.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and TVWeek.com

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Next up for Google TV: An NBC app with full, free episodes? — Google TV has long lacked one key feature: Free or fixed-price access to full episodes of shows the day after they air on TV. There is no Hulu Plus app for Google TV devices, and all the big broadcasters block the Google TV browser …