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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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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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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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Reuters:
Ex-Murdoch editor says he played no part in murdered girl phone hacking — (Reuters) - Andy Coulson, a former Rupert Murdoch editor, said on Tuesday he had played no part in the hacking of the mobile phone messages of murdered British teenager Milly Dowler, the revelation that led to the closure of the News of the World tabloid.
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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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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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James Harkin / Vanity Fair:
Kidnapped in Syria - on the trail of missing American journalists Austin Tice and Jim Foley — Evaporated in Syria, the World's Most Dangerous Place for Journalists — Syria is the most dangerous place in the world for journalists. More than 60 have been killed there since the war began …
Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Religious but not Mormon? The church-owned Deseret News considers you a growth market — The Deseret News is owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but you might not detect its Mormon roots from looking at the outlet's national site — officially came out of beta yesterday …
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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.
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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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
‘Just make something great,’ Boston Globe told journalists about marathon documentary — Every time Boston Globe arts reporter Geoff Edgers worried about the cost of “5 Runners,” a documentary he and his colleague Darren Durlach made for the paper, Globe Editor Brian McGrory told him not to stress.
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