Mediagazer: Mohu preps Channels TV tuner release after raising $145,000 on Kickstarter (Janko Roettgers/Gigaom)

9:35 AM ET, April 14, 2014

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Content creators are skeptical of Yahoo's plans to produce high-quality television — Yahoo Rolls the Dice on TV — Yahoo, a company that seems like a permanent adolescent in search of an identity, is about to try a new persona: high-quality television programmer.

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Ellen Wulfhorst / Reuters:

Pulitzer Prizes to honor top U.S. journalism on Monday — (Reuters) - The Pulitzer Prizes, the United States' most prestigious journalism awards that honor news reporting and photography as well as literature, are to be awarded for the 98th time on Monday. — The prizes, awarded …

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Roy J. Harris Jr / Poynter:

Pulitzer Preview: Snowden factor, and more on prize prospects for Monday — The Pulitzer Prize announcements shook with real-world drama last year, interrupted by reports of bombs exploding at the Boston Marathon finish line. — This coming Monday, though, expect another kind of drama …

Discussion: @poynter, @sulliview and Media Nation

Evan McMurry / Mediaite:

Sharyl Attkisson Slams CBS News, Obama Admin's ‘Chilling Effect’ on Reporting — Sharyl Attkisson, an investigative reporter who recently resigned from her post at CBS News, took shots at both her former employer and the Obama administration on Media Buzz Sunday morning …

Discussion: @jayrosen_nyu, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and The Huffington Post

Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:

Relativity Media makes $500 million bid for YouTube's Maker Studios — Relativity Media Bids for Maker Studios — LOS ANGELES—Midsize film and entertainment company Relativity Media LLC has made a bid to buy Maker Studios, the online-video producer that is preparing to vote this week on a separate bid from Walt Disney Co.

Discussion: Variety, Reuters, @pkafka, @adamostrow and TBI Vision

Press Gazette:

Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson enters hacking trial witness box — Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson went into the witness box today to defend himself against allegations of conspiracies to hack phones and pay public officials for stories.

Discussion: Guardian, Reuters, Telegraph and BBC

Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal:

Report: 44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet — Twitter is having no trouble signing up users. But some new research provides an update on the size of an ongoing problem: getting people to tweet. — A report from Twopcharts, a website that monitors Twitter account activity …

Discussion: Softpedia News, @borthwick, @sulliview, @wsjeurope, Digital Spy, Forbes, Gigaom, Mashable, Consumerist and Business Insider

Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

Sun-Times kills comments until it can fix ‘morass of negativity, racism, and hate speech’ — The Chicago Sun-Times has temporarily eliminated story commenting on its website until it can develop a system that will “foster a productive discussion rather than an embarrassing mishmash …

Discussion: Chicago Sun Times, @amzam and @ksablan

Marc Chacksfield / TechRadar.com:

Zeebox becomes Beamly - wants to be the social network for your TV — New look, new app, new social focus … It's been some two years since Zeebox arrived with the idea of bringing web functionality to your regular TV viewing. — During this time it caught the eye of BSkyB …

Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable, Gigaom, Advanced Television, Broadband TV News, Pocket-lint, Boston Herald, Guardian and The Next Web

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

Mohu preps Channels TV tuner release after raising $145,000 on Kickstarter — Antenna maker Mohu is working on releasing its Channels TV adapter this summer after successfully completing a Kickstarter campaign that not only helped the company to raise close to $145,000, but also provided some input on the direction of the product.

Michael Kinsley / Vanity Fair:

Serious Newspaper Journalism Is Not Over — In most hand-wringing debates about the future of newspapers, high-quality journalism is seen as doomed by the Internet. The author—V.F.'s newest columnist—begs to disagree. — My friend Nicholas Lemann, who recently stepped down as dean …

Discussion: @vanityfair and @dvnjr

Mindy McAdams / Medium:

(Re)defining multimedia journalism — New storytelling forms inspire us — There's no consensus among journalists about what the term multimedia means, or even whether to use it anymore. — The multimedia skills listed in a job advertisement might span a range of specialties from web developer to videographer.

Discussion: @jul_stein, @kevglobal and @alisongow

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Texas Monthly to file lawsuit over hiring of Jake Silverstein as editor of NYT Magazine — Texas Monthly to Sue New York Times Over Magazine Editor — The publisher of the Texas Monthly is expected to file a lawsuit against The New York Times and Jake Silverstein, the Monthly's editor …