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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:
@dylanbyers and @mlcalderone
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:
Washington Post, Marketplace.org, The Millions, CNN-IBN News, The Hindu and USA Today
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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Press Gazette, Guardian, Reuters, Financial Times, RTTNews and HoldTheFrontPage
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?
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.
Discussion:
Wall Street Journal and Reuters
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.
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 …
Discussion:
10,000 Words, @thetinavasquez, @sarahcuda, @annderry, @nytfridge, @jessicalessin, @emjbanks, @susie_c, @lheron, @rustyk5, @anupkaphle, @evettedionne, @hermida, @mccanner, @lpolgreen, @bronwen, @jmm, @silviakillings, @mitrakalita, @umairh, @annaholmes, @mallarytenore, @katecrawford, @annielowrey, @golnoushn, @irin, @sisiwei, @snpsnpsnp, @mccanner, @tomokohosaka, @emilygould, @flowill, @karnythia, @rwhittall, @firetomfriedman, @mattbors, @sulliview, @pennyred, @msjamshidi, @jbouie, @maura, @smfrogers, @sullduggery, @nitashatiku, @moorehn and The Newspaper Guild
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.
Discussion:
bookforum.com, @tnr, @leftleaningec, @kkoczwara, @erikwemple, @janefriedman, @edyong209 and Capital New York
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” …
John Glenday / The Drum:
Future pairs with Gawker Media to bring Kotaku and Lifehacker to the UK — Media group Future has announced a tie-up with Gawker Media to bring localised versions of Kotaku and Lifehacker to the UK market. — Kotaku, the gaming culture media brand, currently reaches 1.1m people …
Discussion:
Press Gazette, Guardian, Gamasutra, MCV: Home Stream and VG247
Mat Honan / Wired:
Twitter's irreplaceable role in breaking news means it can't crash like it did on Tuesday — Why Twitter Can't Keep Crashing — Twitter was down for quite some time yesterday. Once upon a time, that was an annoyance. But not anymore. Now, when Twitter goes down, it's a full-on problem.
Discussion:
@rlytle, @vivian, @mat, @autom8, @dangillmor, @rachaelrad, @mighty55, @pdgurney, @sedjtroll and @niemanlab
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks denies giving evidence from ‘prepared script’ — Prosecution suggests that ex-NoW and Sun editor must have been ‘very much aware’ of what her co-defendants were doing — Rebekah Brooks has denied giving evidence from a “carefully presented and prepared script” …
Discussion:
mUmBRELLA, @lisaocarroll, @ipasho and The Huffington Post
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