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1:40 PM ET, March 13, 2014

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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 …

Discussion: Mediaite, Hit & Run, @jackshafer, @jeffjarvis, @jayrosen_nyu, @erikwemple, @dylanbyers and @mlcalderone

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Sulzberger: The family won't sell the Times; succession plan in the works — Last fall, when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post from the legendary Graham family, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of The New York Times and patriarch of one of America's last surviving newspaper dynasties …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, @niemanlab and @adamnagourney

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?

Discussion: Poynter, @venohr and @neil_irwin

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.

Discussion: Press Gazette, Journalism.co.uk, RTTNews, Reuters, Financial Times, Guardian and HoldTheFrontPage

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.

Discussion: @robynpeterson

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

Google: Piracy is An Availability and Pricing Problem — As in many other countries, online piracy is causing headaches for the Australian Government. A variety of anti-piracy strategies to deal with the problem have been suggested in recent years, but thus far without result.

Discussion: Music Week

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 …

Discussion: USA Today, USA Today, Washington Post, CNN-IBN News, Marketplace.org, The Millions and The Hindu

Lauren Pollock / Wall Street Journal:

Barnes & Noble, Microsoft Revise Nook Partnership — Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) have agreed to revise their partnership, allowing the bookseller to stop developing an app for its Nook e-reader that would work on Windows 8 devices or a Windows Phone.

Discussion: ZDNet, Publishers Weekly, 24/7 Wall St., InvestorPlace and Fox Business

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” …

Discussion: @pbsmediashift

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.

Nyay Bhushan / Hollywood Reporter:

Film, TV Industries Contributed $8.1 Billion to Indian Economy in 2013 — According to a report co-authored by the Motion Picture Association, Hollywood and foreign films grossed $77 million at the Indian box office in 2013, an eight percent share of the overall market.

Aye Aye Win / Associated Press:

Private Myanmar newspapers struggle to stay afloat — YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — With tears in his eyes, the chief editor scoured the last-ever edition of his newspaper before sending the proofread copy to the printing press. His once-bustling newsroom was quiet.