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11:40 AM ET, March 13, 2014

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Edward Snowden looms over Pulitzer Prizes  —  Next month, the trustees who oversee America's most distinguished journalistic award could face their toughest decision in at least four decades.  —  The issue before the Pulitzer Prize Board: Does it honor reporting by the Washington Post …
Arif Durrani / MediaWeek:
Trinity Mirror's pre-tax profits rise 2.6% as digital focus takes hold  —  Trinity Mirror, home to the Daily Mirror, Sunday People, Liverpool Echo, and the Manchester Evening News, has reported a 2.6% lift in pre-tax profits in 2013, after cost savings and digital investment.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Google: Piracy is An Availability and Pricing Problem  —  As in many other countries, online piracy is causing headaches for the Australian Government.  A variety of anti-piracy strategies to deal with the problem have been suggested in recent years, but thus far without result.
Discussion: Music Week
Sabrina Treitz / USA Today:
A night of storytelling as Twitter Festival begins  —  Stories told 140 characters at a time.  —  NEW YORK — The Twitter Fiction Festival began Wednesday night with a live storytelling event in downtown Manhattan.  —  The host, comedian and author Sara Barron, said millions of Twitter followers …
Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:
Transformative or just taking?  Lawyers struggle to define fair use in wake of Google Books case  —  When federal judge Denny Chin declared last fall that Google's decision to scan 20 million books did not violate copyright law, the ruling came as a new high water mark for “transformative use” …
Discussion: @pbsmediashift
Helienne Lindvall / Guardian:
What is a music stream?  Artists and labels in battle over digital income  —  Dispute rages over how royalties should be split in the age of Spotify, Google and Apple  —  UK artists, managers and performers have called for streaming revenue to be split 50/50 between labels and artists.
ASNE:
ASNE Awards for 2013's best journalism!  —  We're happy to announce the winners of the 2014 ASNE Awards for distinguished writing and photography.  Our kudos to your hard work and high-impact journalism!  —  The awards, which encompass nine categories and honor the best in print and digital content …
Discussion: Politico
David Leonhardt / Facebook:
How The Upshot Will Help Navigate the News  —  Imagine that you were sitting down with a journalist and could ask any question about the news.  —  Which parts of Obamacare are working, and which parts are not?  Is Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader, really in danger of losing his seat this year?
Discussion: Poynter, @neil_irwin and @venohr
Liam Moloney / Wall Street Journal:
Mass Appeal: Pope's Popularity a Blessing for Media  —  The ‘Francis Effect’ Proves a Boom to Niche Publishers, Broadcasters  —  VATICAN CITY—Francis mania is lifting up the religious media.  —  As Pope Francis marks the anniversary of his election on Thursday, his popularity is generating …
Discussion: @niemanlab
Aye Aye Win / Associated Press:
Private Myanmar newspapers struggle to stay afloat  —  YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — With tears in his eyes, the chief editor scoured the last-ever edition of his newspaper before sending the proofread copy to the printing press.  His once-bustling newsroom was quiet.
Ricardo Bilton / Digiday:
The rise of the mobile editor  —  CNN readers following the news of yesterday's explosion in Harlem via their phones owe a lot to Etan Horowitz, CNN's mobile editor.  —  From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Horowitz and CNN sent out four push alerts to app users with the latest developments about the blast.
Mary Schlangenstein / Bloomberg:
JetBlue Sells LiveTV Unit to France's Thales for $400 Million  —  JetBlue Airways Corp. (JBLU), the U.S. carrier that pioneered real-time television on aircraft seat-back screens, agreed to sell its LiveTV LLC to Thales SA (HO), concluding a three-year effort to divest the unit.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Reuters
Alec Luhn / Guardian:
Editor of independent Russian news site replaced with pro-Kremlin figure  —  Ousting of Galina Timchenko at Lenta.ru is latest move in what critics fear is a crackdown on left-of-centre media outlets  —  In what appears to be part of a growing state crackdown on liberal media …
 
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Discussion: @niemanlab
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Discussion: Publishers Weekly and Amazon.com
Andrew Wallenstein / Variety:
Ronan Farrow: Awesome on Twitter, Awful on Television
Discussion: The Daily Caller, TVNewser and Mediaite
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