Mediagazer: Bought by Vox as part of Curbed network, Eater outlines expansion plans, names editor in chief (Johana Bhuiyan/Capital New York)

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.

Discussion: @mattzeitlin, @anoushasakoui, Associated Press, The Week, Melville House Books, The Huffington Post, Realscreen, NPR and Boing Boing

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: @atompkins, @mattdpearce, @jtierney6 and New York Times

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 …

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

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Pulitzer prize for The Guardian - silence from the UK's right-wing press

Discussion: Crikey, Pressthink, The New Yorker Blog, @paullewis, Agence France-Presse, Los Angeles Times, The Awl, @stuartmillar159, Times of India, The Times of Israel, Associated Press, @giner, @schmidtphi and Washington Post

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 …

Discussion: Hollywood Reporter, TIME, Forbes, BGR, DSLreports, Washington Post, Inside TV, Daily Dot, Softpedia News and The Wrap

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 …

Discussion: VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Mashable and Gigaom

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 …

Discussion: Forbes, Business Wire, Guardian, AdAge, Forbes, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, @lucas_shaw, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Re/code and Globe and Mail

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.

Discussion: @dangillmor, @nipped, @pamukhum, @zeynep, Daily Dot, Today's Zaman …, Wall Street Journal and Mashable

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 …

Discussion: @alexmcdaniel, @cwarzel, @jimmycdii and @sewellchan, Thanks:@steverubel

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