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12:45 AM ET, April 16, 2014

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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.
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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 …
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Do Pulitzers Help Newspapers Keep Readers?  —  The 2014 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon.  Congratulations to all the finalists and winners of the annual journalism awards.  We're fans of high-quality journalism at FiveThirtyEight, and we're hoping to see the organizations …
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Pulitzer prize for The Guardian - silence from the UK's right-wing press
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Game of Thrones Sets New Torrent Swarm Record  —  Yesterday the second episode of Game of Thrones' fourth season made its way onto the Internet.  As expected, this generated quite a bit of activity on various torrent sites.  —  From all over the world people virtually gathered around …
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Javier Espinoza / Wall Street Journal:
BitTorrent works on changing image, plans new features: encrypted chat, mobile app, paywalls  —  Never Mind Bitcoin.  Remember BitTorrent?  File-Sharing Firm Sharpens Image  —  BitTorrent Inc. is rolling out a range of new products aimed at going beyond the file-sharing technology that shot it to fame …
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: @nbj914 and @jmbooyah
Erin Griffith / Fortune:
Exclusive: Automattic seeking to raise more than $100 million  —  The round will value the company behind WordPress.com at north of $1 billion.  —  FORTUNE — Automattic, the company that runs blogging platforms WordPress.com and WordPress VIP, is out raising between $100 million and $150 million …
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: @jasonschwartz
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Beats Street For Q1 On Sales Of $1.09B, EPS Of $0.38 But Flat Display Sales Of $438M  —  Yahoo has just reported its Q1 earnings, with ex-TAC revenues of $1.087 billion and earnings per share of $0.38, and net income of $314 million.  —  That just about beat analysts' expectations on revenue …
Orhan Coskun / Reuters:
Turkey says Twitter agrees to close some accounts, no tax deal yet  —  (Reuters) - Twitter will close some accounts in Turkey but will not for now set up an office there as the government wants, a senior Turkish official said late on Monday after talks over a dispute which saw the government ban the site for two weeks.
Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed:
The originator of “Retweets are not endorsements” is NYT editor Patrick LaForge, in '07 or '08  —  Meet The Man Behind Twitter's Most Infamous Phrase  —  “It makes me cringe now,” the creator says.  —  The internet is an unforgiving historian with endless primary sources …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
Apple cannot escape U.S. states' e-book antitrust cases: judge  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc on Tuesday lost an attempt to dismiss lawsuits by state attorneys general accusing it of conspiring with five major publishers to fix e-book prices.  —  U.S. District Judge Denise Cote's ruling paves …
Discussion: Gigaom, AppleInsider and Bloomberg
 
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Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
Freedom Communications' L.A. Register launches Wednesday, led by Aaron Kushner with print focus
Discussion: The Breakdown
Journalism.co.uk:
English-language news network The Local plans to expand into eighth country in Europe
Tony Haile / American Journalism Review:
Give Journalists the Right Metrics, Not Pay-for-Performance
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Thunderdome hosts informal job fair for employees
Discussion: Meg Wagner
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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Religious but not Mormon? The church-owned Deseret News considers you a growth market
Discussion: @niemanlab