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7:15 PM ET, April 16, 2014

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William E. Buzenberg / The Center for Public …:
The Center for Public Integrity's response to ABC News  —  On April 14, 2014, Chris Hamby of the Center for Public Integrity was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his investigation detailing controversial denials of black lung benefits to coal miners.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
ABC News says Center for Public Integrity misled Pulitzer board  —  ABC News has accused The Center for Public Integrity of downplaying its contributions to a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative report, setting off a bitter public dispute between two news organizations that once worked as partners.
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 …
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.
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 …
Bill Grueskin / Columbia Journalism Review:
Why the Pulitzers ignored the NYT's ambitious series about Dasani, a homeless Brooklyn girl  —  Why was ‘Dasani’ shut out of the Pulitzers?  —  5 problems with The New York Times' ambitious, influential series on the life of one homeless Brooklyn girl  —  On Monday afternoon …
Discussion: @errollouis and @jennydeluxe
Douglas Grant / WAN-IFRA:
Read now, pay later: Is LaterPay the longed-for silver bullet?  —  The debate over paywalls, freemium and online subscriptions continues to rage as publications try to find the best way to monetise their product.  Amidst it all, a German start-up has quietly been developing what they think could be the solution - LaterPay.
Discussion: @raju and Springwise
Mark Miller / Hollywood Reporter:
Q&A with IAC chairman Barry Diller on the future of the Daily Beast, Aereo, Vimeo, and more  —  Barry Diller Talks Murdoch Succession, Pegs Aereo Supreme Court Odds at ‘50-50’ (Q&A)  —  The chairman and senior executive at IAC and Expedia also tells THR that Vimeo is “not that far” …
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.
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 …
Discussion: @jennifersaba
Caysey Welton / Folio:
Playboy reprints first issue from 60 years ago for $9.99  —  Playboy Re-releases its First Issue 60 Years Later  —  It's an exact replica of the original but with a $9.99 cover price.  —  After 60 years and a few months, Playboy readers have the opportunity to revisit the issue where it all started.
Discussion: Canadian Magazines
Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:
Goodreads users can now sync Amazon purchases with their accounts  —  Since Amazon acquired book-based social networking site Goodreads about a year ago, the retailer has gradually been integrating Goodreads' functionality into Kindle.  Kindle Fire tablets and the new and first-generation …
Tom Dotan / The Information:
Last-minute cancellation of flagship original series raises questions in Hollywood about Hulu's stability  —  Hollywood Questions Hulu as Video Landscape Shifts  —  When the owners of the online video site Hulu pulled the company off the auction block for the second time last summer …
Discussion: @pkafka, @jessicalessin and @weberwest, Thanks:@jessicalessin
Erich Schwartzel / Wall Street Journal:
As studios shift to digital film distribution, small cinemas struggle to pay for upgrades  —  When Renee DiAugustine-Bower's grandfather died in 2013, she took over the one-screen movie theater he'd operated in their small Pennsylvania town for decades.  She also inherited a looming need …
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
How publishers tweak content for the social Web  —  There's an optimization gap in digital publishing.  While advertisers are using sophisticated targeting for ads, publishers are usually showing the same content to all readers, no matter who they are or where they came from.
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 …
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,” …
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 …
Rehema Figueiredo / Guardian:
Why banning the Sun on university campuses is wrong  —  Policy at many students' unions has been hijacked by a vocal minority in what can look like action at the cost of democracy  —  Just before Christmas my students' union removed from sale the national newspaper with the second largest circulation in the country.
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
DabKick launches TV rooms to combine group chats with appointment viewing  —  iPhone chat and app DabKick has come up with a pretty interesting way to share media with your friends, and chat with them about it.  Now, it wants you to get to talk to strangers as well, thanks to a very old concept: appointment viewing.
Discussion: The Next Web
 
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