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12:40 PM ET, May 6, 2014

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Craig Silverman / Poynter:
New service will rate the authenticity of digital images  —  By the time an image makes its way online, it could have been opened and processed in any number of applications, passed through various hands, and been remixed and manipulated.  —  Today a new image hosting service, Izitru …
Discussion: Gigaom
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
ABC News Headquarters to be Named for Barbara Walters  —  On Monday, the ABC News building at 47 W. 66th Street will be named in honor of Barbara Walters.  Walters, a pioneering newswoman — the first woman to co-host network morning and evening newscasts — has called ABC News home since 1976.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
NowThisNews Is Working With Snapchat On An Ephemeral News Service  —  Mobile news startup NowThisNews, built around the idea of short and viral-friendly clips of news stories, has made some inroads into big media with an investment and content partnership with NBCUniversal …
Discussion: @joelcifer
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Eddy Hartenstein's email to LA Times employees with highlights of the site's redesign  —  Times to unveil web redo, and Register begins delivery  —  The Los Angeles Times is scheduled to take the wraps off its long-awaited website makeover later today.  About time: the current site …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Steve Capus named CBS Evening News EP  —  Steve Capus, the former president of NBC News, has been named executive producer of the CBS Evening News and executive editor of CBS News, network president David Rhodes announced in a memo to staff on Tuesday.  —  “Many of you have known Steve …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Peekster, A Shazam For Print Media, Launches In The U.S. At Disrupt NY  —  It may surprise you but print media isn't dead yet.  Hell — some people even like reading ink off of pulped tree.  And that curious fact is something U.K. startup Peekster is intending to cash in on — with an app …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix Signs Deal with Suddenlink, in Largest U.S. Cable Operator Pact So Far  —  Suddenlink Communications, a cable operator with about 1.2 million TV customers across its footprint, has signed an agreement with Netflix to offer the streaming-video service through TiVo set-tops.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
BBC:
BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten stepping down following major heart surgery  —  BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten to stand down  —  BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten has today announced that he will be standing down with immediate effect on health grounds following major heart surgery.
AFP:
Seven chief editors resign from French paper Le Monde over conflict with management  —  A majority of chief editors at French daily Le Monde resigned from their posts on Tuesday amid a conflict with management over editorial reforms.  “A lack of confidence in and communication …
Discussion: @rahulpandita and @afp
Mathew Ingram / Gigaom:
Brown Moses, his alter ego Eliot Higgins, and the rise of the self-trained journalist  —  The term “citizen journalism” gets thrown around a lot, used to refer to everything from people tweeting in crisis zones to high-school students covering city-council meetings.
Discussion: @seanmaynard, Thanks:@mathewi
Jordan Zakarin / The Wrap:
Discovery Communications Q1 Earnings Miss Estimates  —  The good news for Discovery Communications: Its first quarter revenue increased over last year, up 22 percent to $1.4 billion.  —  The bad news: So did its costs, and for that reason, its net income slipped to $230 million compared to $231 million for the same quarter last year.
Mayy El Sheikh / New York Times:
A Voice of Dissent in Egypt Is Muffled, but Not Silent  —  CAIRO — CRITICS here called his films “vulgar” and “damaging to the public's taste.”  When the Muslim Brotherhood came to power last year, one Islamist preacher called him “Satan's prayer caller.”  But after two decades of mocking …
Jaron Gilinsky / Medium:
Storyhunter founder questions media's treatment of freelancers in warzones  —  When a Kidnapped Journalist Is a Freelancer  —  On September 16th, 2013, journalists Javier Espinosa and Ricardo Garcia Vilanova were traveling in Northern Syria along with four rebel soldiers they had hired for protection.
Peter Kafka / Re/code:
Wiser helps co-workers find, share, annotate articles, with versions from free to $499/month  —  Wiser Wants to Help You Sort the Internet, for a Fee  —  Can you charge people money for helping them figure out what they ought to read on the Web?  —  I think so, says Jason Hirschhorn …
Discussion: @crovitz and @andrewwhalen
 
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Alex Weprin / Capital New York:
Larry King criticises former employer CNN, says missing plane coverage was “absurd”
Discussion: The Huffington Post
William Turvill / Press Gazette:
Guardian investigations editor Nick Hopkins joins former colleague Ian Katz at Newsnight
Jean Marbella / Baltimore Sun:
Baltimore Sun Media Group buys The Capital in Annapolis and the Carroll County Times
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Bloomberg hires big-name reporters for 2016 political coverage, but success isn't certain
Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Movie ad company National CineMedia acquires rival Screenvision for $375M
Raju Narisetti / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Rethinking the Pulitzers and promoting the value of good journalism for more than one day a year
Cora Currier / Columbia Journalism Review:
2 NOLA journos are being forced to testify in a federal criminal case
Liana B. Baker / Reuters:
Comcast to bring its X1 service to L.A., New York within year of merger