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8:50 AM ET, April 17, 2014

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Barry Diller / Wall Street Journal:
Broadcasters Don't Own the Airwaves  —  Yet they want to stop people from watching TV on the device of their choice, using an ‘antenna in the cloud.’  —  On April 22, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could alter the way Americans have used and benefited from broadcast airwaves since the dawn of radio and television.
Discussion: Gigaom, Bloomberg and @sullduggery
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Reuters:
U.S. Supreme Court's Alito ends recusal in Aereo TV case  —  (Reuters) - Justice Samuel Alito is no longer recusing himself from two upcoming U.S. Supreme Court business cases, including a challenge by broadcast networks to online TV startup Aereo Inc.  —  In two online docket entries …
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
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Michael Wolff's column for the Guardian discontinued  —  Michael Wolff and The Guardian have parted ways.  —  Capital has learned that Wolff is no longer contracted to file a weekly column for the British broadsheet's American digital edition, Guardian U.S., for which he began writing a little over two years ago.
Roy Greenslade / Guardian:
Financial Times rejects Ipso in favour of its own editorial complaints system  —  The Financial Times has decided to regulate itself.  The paper will not be joining the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso).  —  The FT's editor, Lionel Barber, has told his editorial staff that …
Discussion: Financial Times and Press Gazette
Lindsay Murdoch / Sydney Morning Herald:
Australian journalist Alan Morison spends time in Thai prison in fight for media freedom  —  Australian journalist Alan Morison and his colleague Chutima Sidasathian.  —  Bangkok: An Australian journalist taking a stand against attempts to silence the media in Thailand has spent five hours …
Tara Conlan / Guardian:
Discovery withdraws bid for Channel 5  —  MTV owner Viacom is one of the few remaining potential buyers after fall of offer, thought to have been made with BSkyB  —  Discovery Communications has withdrawn its bid for Richard Desmond's Channel 5, which is thought to leave MTV owner Viacom as one of the few remaining potential buyers.
Patrick Frater / Variety:
IMAX and China's WASU Strike Home Theater Pact  —  BEIJING — IMAX And Chinese cable giant WASU Group have reached a content delivery agreement for IMAX-TCL Premium Home Theatre.  —  The deal is shaped as a joint-venture partnership between IMAX Corporation, TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings and Wasu Digital TV Media Group (WASU).
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: @jennydeluxe and @errollouis
Lucia Moses / Digiday:
Condé Nast dives deep into native ads  —  Some would consider Condé Nast, its lifestyle magazines fat with sumptuous fashion and beauty ads, an originator of native advertising — or at least advertising that blends in seamlessly with its editorial content.
Discussion: @cotton
Philip Oltermann / Guardian:
Google is abusing market dominance, says head of Europe's largest news publisher Axel Springer  —  Google is building up a digital superstate, says German media boss  —  Mathias Döpfner, head of Europe's largest newspaper publisher, says internet search engine is abusing market dominance
George Winslow / Broadcasting & Cable:
Univision Launches OTT Network Flama  —  The over-the-top English-language channel bows with five new original series  —  Univision Communications and Bedrocket have launched Flama, a new English-language over-the-top network at TheFlama.com.  —  The new OTT offering …
Discussion: Home Media Magazine
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
Neil Young's music-player Kickstarter closes at $6.2 million  —  PonoPlayer becomes third-biggest KS project ever, poised to launch in October.  —  PonoPlayer, the Toblerone-shaped portable media player launched last month by classic rocker Neil Young, closed its Kickstarter campaign yesterday with a grand total of $6.2 million.
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Al Franken wants Netflix CEO's perspective on Comcast / TWC deal  —  Senator Al Franken has repeatedly warned of the dangers presented by Comcast's proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable, and today he repeated those concerns in a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
Caroline O'Donovan / Nieman Journalism Lab:
What's the return on investment for news video?  Tow looks at strategies in 125 newsrooms across the country  —  Columbia's Tow Center has a new report out today on how publishers are actually dealing with video.  Many newsrooms have made video a major focus and are pinning their hopes for revenue on the medium.
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 …
Discussion: @raju
 
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Caysey Welton / Folio:
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Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
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Discussion: The Next Web
Rehema Figueiredo / Guardian:
Why banning the Sun on university campuses is wrong
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Jennifer Saba / Reuters:
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Tom Goldstein / SCOTUSblog:
SCOTUSblog denied press pass, its reporter's Supreme Court credentials expire next month
Hadas Gold / Politico:
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
ESPN expands its podcast laboratory
Discussion: @capitalnewyork