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The Pulitzer Prizes:
2014 Winners and Finalists — Winners - Journalism - Public Service The Guardian US The Washington Post Breaking News Reporting Staff of The Boston Globe Investigative Reporting Chris Hamby of The Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC Explanatory Reporting Eli Saslow …
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations — Pair awarded highest accolade in US journalism, winning Pulitzer prize for public service for stories on NSA surveillance — The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the highest accolade in US journalism …
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Ann Friedman / Columbia Journalism Review:
16 women whose digital startups deserve Vox-level plaudits — A look at the media entrepreneurs who aren't grabbing headlines — Even casual consumers of media news have heard of Ezra Klein and Nate Silver, two names that are now synonymous with the future of journalism.
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Why do journalists hate new journalism startups? — A flurry of journalists have been launching news sites lately, each with a formidable amount of hype, but rather than applaud this as a golden age for journalism, the media echo chamber was quick to pull out the knives.
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Jim Romenesko:
Hyperlocal content creator Journatic is renamed LocalLabs — Just months after the low-paying, hyperlocal content provider teamed up with the Chicago Tribune, “This American Life” revealed that Journatic occasionally used fake bylines for Filipino workers and some U.S. journalists.
Etan Vlessing / Hollywood Reporter:
Canada's Shaw Communications Cuts 400 Jobs — The cable and media giant is reorganizing to fend off stiff competition in western Canada from phone giant Telus Corp. — TORONTO — Canadian cable and media giant Shaw Communications is cutting 400 management and backroom jobs for greater efficiency …
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John Cook / The Intercept:
The Intercept will focus on NSA stories until it's fully staffed up — Passover Greetings from the Editor — Hello. My name is John Cook, and as of three weeks ago I became the editor-in-chief of The Intercept. Since then, we haven't published much material on the site, and that's been on purpose.
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Chris Welch / The Verge:
Netflix streaming speeds on Comcast jump 65 percent after controversial deal — Netflix customers on Comcast are already seeing the benefits of a controversial pact between the streaming service and cable provider. Comcast jumped five spots in Netflix's ranking of ISP performance for the month of March.
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
YouTube using traditional advertising to promote star content creators — Exclusive Interview: Susan Wojcicki's Plan to Make YouTube ‘Stars’ Real-Life Famous — And Guaranteeing Audiences In Bid to Pry More TV Dollars Away In the Upfront — Festival — Internet Week New York
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Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Guardian to launch robot-generated print edition in the US; limited to 5,000 copies — The Guardian's robot newspaper comes to the U.S. — The Guardian is taking a very modern strategy and applying it to an old-school format. — The U.K. paper only has a digital presence in the U.S. …
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Gigaom, Orange County Register, @millie, The Next Web, @janinegibson and @mathewi
Associated Press:
3 journalists for Hezbollah TV killed in Syria — BEIRUT (AP) — Three journalists working with Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar TV were killed Monday after the car they were traveling in came under a hail of bullets in the Syrian town of Maaloula, the station said.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Seattle Times combined investigative and breaking news skills to cover the slide — After he wrote the first weather-related story about the mudslide that swept over a Snohomish County neighborhood on Saturday, March 22, The Seattle Times reporter Ken Armstrong wanted to know about the history of that hill.
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