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1:40 PM ET, April 19, 2016

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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Associated Press wins Pulitzer Prize for public service; The New York Times wins in international reporting, New Yorker takes two prizes  —  2016 Pulitzer Prizes: A.P. Wins Public Service Award; ‘Hamilton’ Is Honored  —  The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday …
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The Pulitzer Prizes:
Full list of 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners for journalism  —  2016 Pulitzer Prizes  —  Public Service Associated Press For an investigation of severe labor abuses tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves, brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms.
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
The New Yorker Is the First Magazine to Win a Pulitzer
Discussion: MinOnline and Washington Post
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Newsletter theSkimm introduces new subscription service, Skimm Ahead, an iPhone app that costs $2.99 a month, adds event reminders to your calendar  —  Email Newsletter Startup theSkimm Rolls Out Paid Subscription Product  —  New iPhone app will automatically place big news and cultural events on people's digital calendars
Debra Birnbaum / Variety:
NPR, This American Life, and HBO among Peabody Award winners  —  ‘Real Sports,’ ‘This American Life’ Among Peabody Awards Winners … “This American Life's” exploration of desegregation and HBO's “Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel's” investigation of the ivory trade are among the winners …
Joshua David Stein / Guardian:
New York Observer's food critic Joshua David Stein resigns, following its endorsement of Trump  —  When the New York Observer endorsed Donald Trump, I had to resign  —  I was the restaurant critic.  I could have carried on writing about crudités and borscht.
New York Times:
How media and entertainment companies are expanding into VR, through investment in VR startups and VR-based news projects  —  Virtual Reality Lures Media Companies to a New Frontier  —  Media and entertainment companies want to help shape the next entertainment platform: virtual reality.
Discussion: The Wrap
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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
HBO, Discovery invest in VR startup OTOY to produce original holographic content, terms not disclosed
Discussion: OTOY and Engadget
David Pierce / Wired:
Google launches podcast section in Google Play Music for US users on Android and the web  —  Google Play Will Now Soundtrack Your Life With Podcasts  —  A decade after their inception, podcasts are hitting the mainstream.  You can argue about why (everyone does), but the numbers don't lie.
Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab:
Facebook pulls down mega-popular celeb site The Shade Room's page for alleged copyright violations  —  This post was updated on Tuesday when Facebook confirmed it took the page down for “IP violations” but didn't cite go into specifics.  —  On Monday, Facebook took down the Facebook page …
Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:
Source: News Corp files complaint to European Commission accusing Google of leveraging its dominance in search for news articles  —  News Corp Files Formal Complaint to European Commission over Google  —  U.S. tech giant accused of leveraging its dominance in the search for news articles
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Jay Z, Tidal & Kanye West sued for misstatements about ‘The Life of Pablo’ exclusivity  —  Kanye West's decision to flip-flop on whether or not his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” would be an exclusive to music streaming service Tidal, has now been met with a class action lawsuit led by consumer tech privacy law firm Edelson PC.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Netflix promises 100 hours of HDR programming by August, more by 2017  —  Netflix just announced plans to introduce more high dynamic range (HDR)-quality videos to its library this year.  —  Though we already knew Netflix had big plans on the HDR front and that it had recently upgraded the first season of …
 
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Bill Cosby's lawyers push New York Magazine to turn over transcripts, unpublished material from July 2015 cover story featuring his alleged victims
Hasit Shah / Nieman Lab:
A look at India's ScoopWhoop, MissMalini, and SWEN, local startups aiming to outcompete Western news companies
Discussion: @dhume
Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider:
Elisabeth Murdoch's Vertical Networks to launch Brother, a made-for-Snapchat mobile video media brand aimed at millennial men, within weeks
Discussion: @bobbierman
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
BBC iPlayer opens up to partners for the first time, collaborates on online Shakespeare festival with other organizations including the British Film Institute
Discussion: Advanced Television and Engadget
Frederic Filloux / Monday Note:
Analysis of BuzzFeed's leaked revenue numbers suggests company should only be worth $196M, well below its $1.5B valuation
Discussion: The Awl and Folio
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Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable:
Verizon and Hearst to acquire Complex Media in 50/50 split, for its predominantly younger, male audience; WSJ reports the deal values Complex at $250M-$300M
Wall Street Journal:
Netflix net subscriber growth was better than expected with 2.23M in US and 4.51M overseas, but company gave weak guidance; stock down about 10% after hours
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube debuts live 360 video, releases API for hardware makers to integrate into devices, also launches spatial audio for on-demand YouTube videos
Lawrence Hurley / Reuters:
Supreme Court declines appeal by the Authors Guild to challenge Google Books, leaving in place the 2015 ruling in favor of Google, and ending the copyright suit