Mediagazer: German media giant Axel Springer visits Silicon Valley to study culture at digital companies (Tilmann Knoll/INMA)

11:35 AM ET, April 16, 2014

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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 …

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

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 …

Discussion: Poynter, Guardian, The Huffington Post and @mlcalderone

Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:

SCOTUSblog denied press pass, its reporter's Supreme Court credentials expire next month — An update on our press pass — Last week, the Senate Press Gallery denied SCOTUSblog's application for a press pass, and advised us that it would refuse to renew the credential it had previously granted Lyle when it expires next month.

Discussion: @adamliptak and @scotusblog

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: The New York Observer, @betaboston, @ejdionne, @dankennedy_nu and @jasonschwartz

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

Guardian:

Tony Gallagher appointed Daily Mail joint deputy editor — Former Daily Telegraph editor to rejoin the paper he left eight years ago and will share role with John Steafel — Tony Gallagher is returning to the Daily Mail as joint deputy editor. — The former Daily Telegraph editor …

Discussion: Press Gazette, @thattimwalker, @gallaghereditor and Guy Fawkes' blog

Alex Weprin / Capital New York:

ESPN expands its podcast laboratory — ESPN is adding a handful of new podcasts to its repertoire, and they move beyond the network's traditional sports fare to find sports' intersections with politics, psychology and business. — Under the banner “ESPN Perspectives,” …

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: BuzzMachine and TechCrunch

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Aereo Shows Off Their Rooftop Antenna Farm Ahead Of Supreme Court Ruling — A lot has been said about Aereo's technology — so much, in fact, that there are hundreds of pages worth of legal documents discussing the matter as it relates to the law. — That said, we thought it would be helpful …

Wall Street Journal:
Broadcasters weigh contingency plans in the event of losing Supreme Court battle with Aereo

Discussion: TVNewser, TVSpy, @amolsharmawsj and Engadget

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

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: Poynter, LA Observed, Reuters and The Breakdown

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, The New Republic, @mattzeitlin, Associated Press, @anoushasakoui, The Week and Melville House Books

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

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

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Buddy Roemer firm invests $4 million in Young Turks Network — A firm led by former Republican governor and congressman Buddy Roemer is investing millions into The Young Turks Network to significantly increase their content, sales, and platform presence. — The investment of $4 million …

Discussion: TechCrunch

Jennifer Saba / Reuters:

Reddit boosts news capabilities in social media turf grab — (Reuters) - Reddit, a website with a retro-'90s look and space-alien mascot that tracks everything from online news to celebrity Q&As, is going after more eyeballs, and advertising, by allowing members of its passionate community …

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

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

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, PandoDaily and The Next Web