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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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Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Pulitzer prize for The Guardian - silence from the UK's right-wing press — The Guardian and Washington Post have been awarded the Pulitzer prize for public service journalism for their articles about mass surveillance based on the leaks of Edward Snowden. — Winning a Pulitzer …
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@giner, Washington Post, Agence France-Presse, Los Angeles Times and Times of India
Lindsay Murdoch / The Age:
Australian faces jail for coverage of same story that won Reuters a Pulitzer prize — Bangkok: Reuters' international news agency has a won Pulitzer prize for exposing the violent persecution of Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority while an Australian journalist and his Thai colleague face jail for their coverage of the same story.
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@bkkapologist and @kriskoles
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
INNovation fund backs eight projects from news nonprofits with an eye towards sustainability — A public radio app that aggregates user-generated content, a food education night with a tasting menu, and a WordPress tool that helps track the influence of stories.
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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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@digiday, @raju, @adnansiddiqi and @neo_maditla
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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Alex Kantrowitz / AdAge:
New Look AOL Homepage Puts Video Front and Center — Ahead of NewFronts, AOL Puts New Video Player Front and Center — How Advertising Performs in a Social Media World … AOL's recently declared plans to “double down” on video appear to be taking shape.
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FishbowlNY and TechCrunch
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 …
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@t_mcconnell, @ionacraig and @javierespinosa2
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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@annfriedman, @briannaclee and @annfriedman
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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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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