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1:00 PM ET, April 13, 2015

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Trevor Timm / Columbia Journalism Review:
Times, BuzzFeed, other news organizations deals with Facebook give the social network power to censor the news  —  The most concerning element of Facebook's potential new power  —  “Facebook has more power in determining who can speak and who can be heard around the globe than any Supreme Court justice, any king or any president.”
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Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
How publishers are using Facebook interest targeting to reach niche audiences
Discussion: @simonowens and @lheron
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
First four Game of Thrones season 5 episodes leak online, apparently originating from review copies, surfacing on major torrent sites, in major blow to HBO  —  First Episodes of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leak Online  —  Starting a few hours ago several episodes of the new Game of Thrones season started to appear online.
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Jack Shepherd / Journalism.co.uk:
University of Florida journalism students to post geolocated news to Yik Yak, only readable on or near campus, in partnership with the company  —  University of Florida explores geolocation news feeds  —  The university has teamed up with social media app Yik Yak to bring its students the latest local news
Discussion: streetfightmag.com
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Winners for the Pulitzer Prizes will be announced next Monday  —  The winners of the 99th Pulitzer Prizes will be announced Monday, April 20, at 3 p.m. eastern, Columbia University announced in a press release.  The winners will be announced on the prize's site, Twitter feed and YouTube channel.
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Nate Silver and Circa editor-in-chief Anthony De Rosa accuse Vox of stealing charts without attribution  —  Nate Silver to Vox: Stop stealing our charts! … FiveThirtyEight founder and statistics guru Nate Silver has accused Ezra Klein's Vox.com of stealing other people's charts without attribution.
TechCrunch:
Twitter implies to publishers using Meerkat that it may cut off access to Amplify service, if they do not use Periscope exclusively  —  Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities And Publishers To Stop Using Meerkat  —  Twitter is doing whatever it can to help its live video streaming acquisition Periscope beat independent competitor Meerkat.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Amazon launches X-Ray on Fire TV to bring IMDb movie and TV data to the big screen  —  Amazon is bringing its “X-Ray for Movies and TV” service to the big screen for the first time, with the news that the contextual information offering is rolling out for Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.
Cynthia Littleton / Variety:
CBS News Political Director John Dickerson Named Anchor of ‘Face the Nation’  —  CBS News has tapped its political director John Dickerson to succeed Bob Schieffer as anchor of “Face the Nation.”  —  Schieffer announced the appointment at the close of Sunday's telecast.
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
Former NBC correspondent Chris Hansen will launch a Kickstarter campaign to revive “To Catch a Predator” series on Wednesday, called Hansen vs. Predator  —  Chris Hansen using crowd funding to get back to catching predators  —  Chris Hansen is going back into the predator-catching business …
Discussion: TVNewser
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Wall Street Journal brings designers and coders into the newsroom to work alongside journalists  —  Designers, coders and developers to join WSJ newsroom  —  Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following announcement to the staff on Friday:
Discussion: FishbowlNY and @chris_ciaccia
Associated Press:
Iran's Fars news agency: Jason Rezaian faces “espionage” and “acting against national security” charges, sold economic and industrial data to the US  —  Report: US reporter held in Iran facing ‘espionage’ charges  —  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A Washington Post journalist detained …
 
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Vindu Goel / New York Times:
Yahoo leadership reorganization: Simon Khalaf promoted to SVP to oversee Tumblr and home page, David Karp no longer reports to Mayer, Adam Cahan runs video
Discussion: The Wrap
 

 
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is prioritizing security over new features to win back consumer trust, as it scrambles to respond to new attacks from Russia-linked hackers

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices “without hanging up and rejoining” via its Android, iOS, and web apps

Alex Heath / The Verge:
Mark Zuckerberg says “tens of millions of people” have “tried” Meta AI but making money from generative AI in Meta's apps is likely going to take several years
 
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