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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Edward Snowden looms over Pulitzer Prizes — Next month, the trustees who oversee America's most distinguished journalistic award could face their toughest decision in at least four decades. — The issue before the Pulitzer Prize Board: Does it honor reporting by the Washington Post …
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Sabrina Treitz / USA Today:
A night of storytelling as Twitter Festival begins — Stories told 140 characters at a time. — NEW YORK — The Twitter Fiction Festival began Wednesday night with a live storytelling event in downtown Manhattan. — The host, comedian and author Sara Barron, said millions of Twitter followers …
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Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Transformative or just taking? Lawyers struggle to define fair use in wake of Google Books case — When federal judge Denny Chin declared last fall that Google's decision to scan 20 million books did not violate copyright law, the ruling came as a new high water mark for “transformative use” …
Arif Durrani / MediaWeek:
Trinity Mirror's pre-tax profits rise 2.6% as digital focus takes hold — Trinity Mirror, home to the Daily Mirror, Sunday People, Liverpool Echo, and the Manchester Evening News, has reported a 2.6% lift in pre-tax profits in 2013, after cost savings and digital investment.
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David Leonhardt / Facebook:
How The Upshot Will Help Navigate the News — Imagine that you were sitting down with a journalist and could ask any question about the news. — Which parts of Obamacare are working, and which parts are not? Is Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, really in danger of losing his seat this year?
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Helienne Lindvall / Guardian:
What is a music stream? Artists and labels in battle over digital income — Dispute rages over how royalties should be split in the age of Spotify, Google and Apple — UK artists, managers and performers have called for streaming revenue to be split 50/50 between labels and artists.
Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg:
JetBlue Sells LiveTV Unit to France's Thales for $400 Million — JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU), the U.S. carrier that pioneered real-time television on aircraft seat-back screens, agreed to sell its LiveTV LLC to Thales SA (HO), concluding a three-year effort to divest the unit.
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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
No increase in women's sport coverage since the 2012 Olympics — Nicola Adams and Jessica Ennis-Hill may have become household names, but compared with men's sport, stories on women's sport are still outnumbered 20 to one — Anyone watching women win one third of all British medals …
Liam Moloney / Wall Street Journal:
Mass Appeal: Pope's Popularity a Blessing for Media — The ‘Francis Effect’ Proves a Boom to Niche Publishers, Broadcasters — VATICAN CITY—Francis mania is lifting up the religious media. — As Pope Francis marks the anniversary of his election on Thursday, his popularity is generating …
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Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
The rise of the mobile editor — CNN readers following the news of yesterday's explosion in Harlem via their phones owe a lot to Etan Horowitz, CNN's mobile editor. — From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Horowitz and CNN sent out four push alerts to app users with the latest developments about the blast.
Alec Luhn / Guardian:
Editor of independent Russian news site replaced with pro-Kremlin figure — Ousting of Galina Timchenko at Lenta.ru is latest move in what critics fear is a crackdown on left-of-centre media outlets — In what appears to be part of a growing state crackdown on liberal media …
Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
David Remnick Interview: On Russia, Obama and Editing The New Yorker — The New Yorker editor on difficult writers, Obama's shortcomings, and learning from Anna Wintour — When I met David Remnick at his Upper West Side apartment last month, he had just returned from Sochi. It was very much a work trip.
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Emily Bell / Guardian:
Journalism startups aren't a revolution if they're filled with all these white men — Nate Silver has a chart to hire for ‘clubhouse chemistry’. Ever heard of something called ‘workplace diversity’? — When the predictive superstar Nate Silver announced last summer that he would defect …
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