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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
The LA Times wins the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for its series on a USC gynecologist accused of sexually abusing hundreds of students — The Los Angeles Times won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting Monday for its series of stories that exposed …
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Ren LaForme / Poynter:
A list of winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes, including Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, the Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar, the NYT, WSJ, and others — This post will be updated as the awards are announced. — The winners of the 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were announced at Columbia University in New York City on Monday.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
South Florida's Sun Sentinel newspaper has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for its coverage of the Parkland shootings — The Sun Sentinel of South Florida won the Pulitzer Prize for public service on Monday for its coverage of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School …
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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
The Wall Street Journal wins a Pulitzer Prize in the national-reporting category for stories on Trump's hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal — WSJ team wins for coverage of payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal before 2016 election
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Janko Roettgers / Variety:
Starz apologizes for “inadvertently” issuing DMCA takedown notices for tweets to stories merely reporting about TV show leak, says it suffered a security breach — Facing a backlash over overzealous copyright enforcement, Starz issued an apology for inadvertently taking down tweets to articles about TV show piracy Monday.
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Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Twitter removed tweets criticizing Starz's dispute with TorrentFreak, including one from journalist Mathew Ingram, at the request of the company — Starz criticised over Twitter takedown of users' links to news story about pirated shows — A US TV channel has forced Twitter …
Avi Wolfman-Arent / WHYY:
Philadelphia news organization WHYY has acquired digital news startup Billy Penn from its owners Spirited Media — WHYY announced Monday it has acquired the digital news startup Billy Penn from its founding owner, Spirited Media. — “WHYY has consistently grown its journalism capacity to fortify the local news ecosystem.
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Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company:
Quartz's US newsroom is unionizing with the NewsGuild, with ~60 editorial employees delivering a letter to management asking for voluntary recognition — As the media industry continues to search for viable business models, those feeling a sense of whiplash from the economic headwinds continue …
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Max Willens / Digiday:
Sources: some publishers say Apple News + has failed to deliver on some of the promises it made to get them on board and is favoring larger publishers — According to several publishers, Apple News+ is off to a rough start. — Five participating publishers Digiday spoke to detailed …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Sources: nearly half of HQ Trivia's staff signed a petition seeking to depose CEO Rus Yusupov; the startup had ~$6M in the bank but is spending $1M per month — This week's banishment of host Scott Rogowsky was merely a symptom of the ongoing struggle to decide who will lead HQ Trivia.
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat:
EU gives final approval to the new Copyright Directive, with its controversial Article 11 and 13 provisions, after 19 of the 28 member countries voted in favor — The European Union has officially approved a controversial and sweeping reform of its copyright rules to protect content creators …
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EU Press Room, MediaPost, Thurrott, TorrentFreak, @asteris, Variety and @junckereu, more at Techmeme »
John Ingold / The Colorado Sun:
Twenty years after Columbine, a journalist who covered the shooting reflects on how media unwittingly created a narrative that may have inspired more attacks — But the mythology around killers no longer needs press coverage to spread — Red Lake High School. Dawson College. Sparks Middle School.
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