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10:25 AM ET, May 3, 2013

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
“The Daily Beast and Howard Kurtz have parted company” were the words used by Daily Beast founding editor Tina Brown in a statement to Politico's Dylan Byers.  —  The news about her putative Washington bureau chief, who never was really much of a politics editor but came from a long career …
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Sharon Waxman / The Wrap:
CNN: Howard Kurtz and ‘Reliable Sources’ Under Review  —  The media critic, fired from The Daily Beast, is now under review with his CNN bosses  —  Howard Kurtz and his weekly “Reliable Sources” media talk show are under review after his firing from The Daily Beast over erroneous reporting, a CNN spokeswoman told TheWrap on Thursday.
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
The Washington Post Co. earnings decline; revenue sees slight increase  —  The Washington Post Co. reported an 85 percent drop in earnings, although after subtracting one-time items, profits from continuing operations fell by 55 percent while revenue inched up slightly.
Discussion: Poynter and paidContent
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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
Washington Post profit plunges 85 percent on weak news, education revenues  —  (Reuters) - Washington Post Co reported an 85 percent drop in first-quarter net income on Friday on weakness in its education and newspaper businesses.  —  Stronger results from the television and cable operations …
Discussion: RTTNews and Fort Mill Times
Nat Ives / AdAge:
New York Is Magazine of the Year at National Magazine Awards  —  Pitchfork Wins for General Excellence in Digital  —  New York magazine was named magazine of the year at the annual National Magazine Awards on Thursday night, taking home a prize only introduced in 2010 to honor brands that excel in both print and digital media.
Jillian C. York / Mediashift:
Why We Still Need World Press Freedom Day  —  Eskinder Nega is an Ethiopian journalist and blogger who, in July 2012, was convicted under the country's broad anti-terrorism law and sentenced to 18 years in prison for exercising his right to free expression.  Nega's conviction has been roundly condemned …
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Why we should stop asking Twitter to introduce a correction feature  —  Every time a breaking news event like the Boston bombings occurs and Twitter becomes a hot mess of real-time news reports, hoaxes, fake accounts and misinformation, there is a great hue and cry for some kind of correction mechanism …
Discussion: NationalJournal.com
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Study Shows Native Ads Outperform Banners...Mostly  —  There's an awful lot of excitement in the digital publishing world around native advertising and a lot of new marketing dollars being spent on ads that blend seamlessly with or mimic the forms of content.
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Spotify Takes a Page From the Twitter Playbook, Buys Music Discovery App Tunigo  —  Last fall, Twitter bought We Are Hunted, a “music discovery” startup that made a popular app for Spotify.  —  Apparently Spotify is paying attention: It just bought Tunigo, another music discovery startup with a popular Spotify app.
Pallavi Polanki / Firstpost:
Delhi gang-rape: Foreign journalists to move High Court after being barred from trial  —  New Delhi:  —  A little over a month after the ban on the media to the report on the Delhi gang-rape trial was lifted by the Delhi High Court, a fast-track court hearing the case has barred foreign journalists from covering the proceedings.
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
BBC's troubled £133m digital video archive delays ‘tapeless’ future  —  Old-fashioned tape editing machines may have to be installed in Broadcasting House in specially-constructed refrigerated areas  —  A £133m digital video archive designed to ensure the redeveloped New Broadcasting House is …
Discussion: Beet.TV
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
New York Times experiments with Spanish-language version of story  —  Ginger Thompson's April 29 story about a former a drug war informer includes a button marked “Leer en Español” — a first for the newspaper, Veronica Villafañe writes.  —  Thompson's “stories on Latin America often …
Khalid Khattak / Wall Street Journal:
Report Finds Journalist Killings Go Unsolved  —  Governments around the world have failed to investigate and prosecute the killing of hundreds of journalists in recent years, a report by a nonprofit group said Thursday.  —  Nearly 1,000 journalists were killed in the two decades since 1992 …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Bloomberg Pays Tribute to The Financial Times, Reigniting Speculation on a Bid
Ayako Mie / Japan Times:
Huffington Post looks to weave new Web in Japan
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Erik Holm / MoneyBeat:
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