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7:55 AM ET, April 16, 2014

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Do Pulitzers Help Newspapers Keep Readers?
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
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 …
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.
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
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Andy Coulson tells phone-hacking trial he heard David Blunkett voicemails  —  Ex-NoW editor tells jury Neville Thurlbeck played him recordings of former home secretary declaring love for a married woman  —  Andy Coulson has revealed he heard voicemails of the former home secretary David Blunkett declaring his love for a married woman.
Discussion: Reuters, BBC and ITV
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: Reuters and The Breakdown
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: AppleInsider, Bloomberg and Gigaom
 
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Javier Espinoza / Wall Street Journal:
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Alastair Reid / Journalism.co.uk:
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