Top News:
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
HuffPost Live in Deal With AXS to Put Show on Cable — The Huffington Post has found a partial home on cable television for its eight-month-old Internet channel, HuffPost Live, courtesy of Mark Cuban. — The company announced Sunday night that Mr. Cuban's cable channel AXS TV …
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TVNewser, Variety, Broadcasting & Cable, Hollywood Reporter, The Huffington Post, AdAge, Los Angeles Times and Lost Remote
Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Hoax emergency message sends police to Wolf Blitzer's house in Bethesda — Montgomery County police received an urgent message at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday saying someone had been shot at Wolf Blitzer's home in Bethesda. Officers streamed toward the CNN host's residence near Congressional Country Club.
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Poynter, Politico, The Verge, WTOP.com, Watchdog Blog, The Huffington Post and Pressing Issues
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
ESPN: The Magazine Puts a Print Spin on Sponsored Content — Branded content has gotten plenty of attention as it's taken off online, where the division between editorial and advertising real estate can be fuzzier (see: Forbes, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, Gawker), but publishers have shied away from using similar strategies in print.
Discussion:
FishbowlNY and eMedia Vitals
Felix Gillette / Businessweek:
How ‘Mother Jones’ Turned Itself Into an Online ‘Secret Tape’ Factory — First there was the hidden video of Mitt Romney criticizing the 47 percent. Next came the surreptitious recording of Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) aides mocking Ashley Judd. And then, on the morning of April 25 …
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Mother Jones and The Huffington Post
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Former Yahoo Exec Rich Riley Is New Shazam CEO: “For Next Stage of Growth and IPO” — Shazam, the music discovery mobile app that is now calling itself a “media engagement” company, said it had hired former top Yahoo exec Rich Riley as its new CEO, with longtime CEO Andrew Fisher moving to executive chairman.
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TechCrunch and Softpedia News
Stuart Dredge / Guardian:
Financial Times: ‘There is no drawback to working in HTML5’ — FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw on apps evolution, paywall prospects and why BuzzFeed is ‘absolutely fascinating’ — Nearly two years since the Financial Times launched its HTML5 web app in June 2011 …
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AllThingsD and eMedia Vitals
Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
Huffington Post to launch German edition — The Huffington Post has announced the launch of a German-language edition for Germany, Austria and Switzerland in conjunction with Tomorrow Focus AG, a provider of digital media content in Germany. The partnership will be led largely by Tomorrow Focus AG …
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Bloomberg, paidContent, ABCNEWS, CNN and The Huffington Post
Guardian:
Iraq bans al-Jazeera and nine other TV channels over ‘sectarian bias’ — Qatar-based channel and nine other stations have licences revoked as government claims they fuel bloodshed — The Iraqi authorities announced on Sunday that they had revoked the operating licences of the broadcaster al-Jazeera …
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Al Jazeera English, GlobalPost, Reuters, RT and BBC
Associated Press:
Mary Thom Dead: Former Ms. Magazine Editor Dies In NY Crash — YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — Prominent feminist Mary Thom, a writer and former editor of Ms. magazine who also was an avid motorcyclist, crashed while riding on a highway and was killed, her nephew said Saturday. She was 68.
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New York Times, CNN, Women's Media Center, Ms. Magazine Blog, FishbowlNY, City Room, FishbowlNY, Reuters, Gawker and lohud.com
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
UK.Gov passes Instagram Act: All your pics belong to everyone now — Everyone = Silicon Valley [ad platforms] tech companies — Have you ever uploaded a photo to Facebook, Instagram or Flickr? — If so, you'll probably want to read this, because the rules on who can exploit your work have now changed radically, overnight.
Gail Shister / TVNewser:
Brian Stelter On NBC's Response to ‘Top of the Morning,’ Negative Reviews — Though the critics have skewered his first book, Brian Stelter chooses to see the coffee cup as half full. — “Honestly, I appreciate the feedback,” says Stelter, 27, author of Top of the Morning …
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FishbowlNY and mediabistro.com
Lucia Moses / Adweek:
Target to Sell Wired-Endorsed Products — Wired was born of the tech boom, but it's always styled itself as a lifestyle magazine. To that end, it's branched out into conferences, cultivated fashion and lifestyle advertisers, and even put its name on a handful of limited-edition products that it's sold in a pop-up store.
Discussion:
GigaOM and Talking Biz News