Mediagazer: Livefyre Takes A New Approach To Commenting With Web Annotation Product Sidenotes (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

9:30 AM ET, April 16, 2014

Top News:

Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Judge orders Mail Online to pay £10k damages to Paul Weller's children over use of unpixelated pictures — Mail Online has been ordered to pay damages of £10,000 for breach of privacy to the children of musician Paul Weller after publishing photos taken of them while on a family outing.

Discussion: @jackofkent, Irish Independent and BBC

Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:

Fresh Off Pulitzer Win, The Globe Tentatively Toasts Its Future — When The Boston Globe won a Pulitzer on Monday for its reporting on the bombing at the city's marathon last year, the newspaper's editor, Brian McGrory, asked for a minute of silence before praising the journalists involved in the coverage, each one by name.

Discussion: @dankennedy_nu and @jasonschwartz

Al Tompkins / Poynter:

ABC News says Center for Public Integrity should share Pulitzer for investigative reporting — ABC News President Ben Sherwood sent a four-page letter to WIlliam Buzenberg, executive director of The Center for Public Integrity, asking CPI to share credit for the Pulitzer Prize …

Discussion: @theharryshearer, @mattdpearce, @atompkins, @markkatches and @jtierney6

Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:

Former Pulitzer juror's opinion: the prizes stay relevant by providing benchmarks, inspiration — What's the Point of the Pulitzers? — Do the Pulitzer Prizes still matter? Do they stand for anything except journalistic self-congratulation? The question comes up every year around this time.

Discussion: AllGov, @mattzeitlin, Associated Press, @anoushasakoui, The Week and Melville House Books

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Do Pulitzers Help Newspapers Keep Readers?

Discussion: Poynter, DailyNewsGems, The Daily Caller, AJR.org, @zeynep, The New York Observer, Publishers Weekly, @markcoddington, @pkafka, @jbenton and Kirk LaPointe's …

Tilmann Knoll / INMA:

German media giant Axel Springer visits Silicon Valley to study culture at digital companies — Axel Springer's takeaways from Silicon Valley? Transformation must center on technology, interdisciplinary cooperation — What executives from German media company Axel Springer learned …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Livefyre Takes A New Approach To Commenting With Web Annotation Product Sidenotes — Online comments are usually cordoned off at the bottom of a page, but Livefyre is hoping to bring them into the content itself with the launch of a new product called Sidenotes.

Discussion: Poynter and The Next Web

Bloomberg:

BSkyB Said to Join Discovery in Offer for Channel 5 — Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell said it received several bids for the U.K.'s Channel 5 television station which airs shows including “Britain's Crime Capitals” and “Celebrity Big Brother.” — British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc …

Discussion: Variety, International Business Times, thedrum.com and thedrum.com

Johana Bhuiyan / Capital New York:

Bought by Vox as part of Curbed network, Eater outlines expansion plans, names editor in chief — Food site Eater ‘Vox-ifies’ with new top chef, slow-cooker plans — Eater, the national food-blog network founded by Lockhart Steele, has named Amanda Kludt the site's first ever editor in chief, Capital has learned.

Discussion: @jmbooyah and @nbj914

Elisabeth Witchel / Committee to Protect Journalists:

CPJ's 2014 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free — CPJ's 2014 Global Impunity Index spotlights countries where journalists are slain and the killers go free — Syria has joined the list of countries where journalists' murders …

Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:

New LA newspaper embraces print in digital world — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Aaron Kushner believes he can launch and grow a print newspaper in a world gone digital. The former greeting card executive is trying to turn the Orange County Register into a media giant in southern California, largely driven by paper and ink.

Discussion: The Breakdown

Katie Collins / Wired.co.uk:

Watch or record Sky shows simply by clicking a tweet — In a first for a British broadcaster, Sky has launched a service that will allow customers to start watching or remotely recording a TV show, sporting event or movie just by clicking on an icon contained in a tweet.

Discussion: TechRadar.com, Sky News, Gizmodo UK, Tech Digest, Expert Reviews, campaignlive.co.uk, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Broadband TV News and Telegraph

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Judge says 33 states can seek Apple ebook money, report cites “much work to do” on antitrust — New court reports this week suggest Apple is sinking ever deeper into legal quicksand, as the company fights a court judgment over ebook price-fixing that could ultimately cost it close to $1 billion dollars.

Discussion: Tech2, AppleInsider and Bloomberg

Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:

How BuzzFeed World is making the outlet a ‘one-stop shop’ — With the appointment of Paul Hamilos from the Guardian, BuzzFeed World continues to build on the foundations of hard news to supplement its more light-earted output — Read more — Other top stories — Also on Journalism.co.uk...

Discussion: @simoncrerar, @paulhamilos and @niemanlab