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9:40 AM ET, December 6, 2011

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Bloomberg:
Apple, E-Book Publishers Probed by EU Agency  —  Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world's biggest technology company, and five e-book publishers are being investigated by European Union antitrust regulators over deals that may restrict sales across the region.  —  The probe targets the iPad-maker's deals …
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Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Europe Probing Apple And Publishers For E-book Price ‘Cartel’  —  After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust investigation into whether Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers are limiting e-book competition with their “agency” pricing model.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Why Europe's trustbusters targeted Apple's e-book ‘cartel’  —  The antitrust probe dates back to a deal Steve Jobs cut with five publishers in Jan. 2010  —  The language of the European Commission's press release Tuesday announcing the start of a formal antitrust investigation of Apple …
Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: Chris Atkins, David Leigh, Charlotte Harris - live  —  Full coverage as the Starsuckers director, Guardian journalist and lawyer for phone-hacking victims give evidence  —  9.16am: The Independent points out that former information commissioner Richard Thomas told …
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James Cusick / The Independent:
Watchdog chief faces grilling over failure to act on press's dirty tricks  —  The Information Commissioner who presided over a massive investigation into newspapers' illegal use of a private investigator may have to explain this week why he told MPs no legal action was necessary despite …
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Buyouts offered at The Gazette, Washington Post's community newspapers in Maryland  —  The buyouts were mentioned at the bottom of a story announcing that Chuck Lyons is moving from CEO to chairman of Post-Newsweek Media, the business division that includes The Gazette: “In an unrelated development …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
For Local NBC Stations, Collaborative Journalism  —  In a sign of increasing collaboration between journalism groups, NBC on Tuesday will announce a series of partnerships between its television stations and nonprofit news organizations.  —  Effectively immediately, NBC's station in Chicago …
Discussion: Deadline.com
Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Financial Times Launches Dedicated Android App  —  With mobile readers proving to be very avid readers of the Financial Times, the newspaper has launched a new version of its native Android app that it hopes will bring in more users on the platform on both smartphones and tablets.
New York Times:
Xbox Live Challenges the Cable Box  —  The old-fashioned cable television set-top box — long the hub of living-room entertainment for most people — is about to become less relevant.  —  Beginning on Tuesday and continuing through the month, Microsoft will give a face-lift …
Discussion: Multichannel News, PopWatch and Forbes
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Microsoft upgrades Xbox Live with 40 entertainment services, live TV, and Kinect voice control
Indiewire:
Exclusive: ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Producer Scott Rudin Replies To David Denby's Upcoming New Yorker Review Embargo Break  —  “They reviewed what?”  —  If you follow movie insider baseball news you may have heard the embargo on Sony's “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” is about to break tomorrow …
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Steve Pond / The Wrap:
Sony Furious Over New Yorker's Plan to Break ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Review Embargo
Discussion: Company Town, Media Decoder and Poynter
Linda Holmes / NPR:
Honor Among Thumbs: A ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Spat And An Imperfect System
Discussion: AllThingsD, Gothamist and Carpetbagger
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Aaron Sorkin's HBO Cable News Series To Be Called ‘Newsroom’  —  Exclusive: The upcoming HBO drama about cable news from “The West Wing” creator Aaron Sorkin finally has a name.  TVNewser has learned that HBO is expected to call the series “Newsroom.”  —  Sorkin's series follows fictional …
Julia Angwin / The Wall Street Journal:
WikiLeaks Associates Seek Injunction on Twitter Data  —  Three WikiLeaks associates are appealing a court order that would force Twitter Inc. to hand over information from their accounts without a search warrant.  —  The WikiLeaks associates - Jacob Appelbaum, Rop Gonggrijp, and Birgitta Jonsdottir …
Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia Merge to Create CNBC International  —  TVNewser has learned CNBC president Mark Hoffman sent out a memo this morning announcing that CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia have merged to form CNBC International.  —  Mick Buckley, who headed CNBC Europe, is leaving the company after eight years.
Will Bunch / Philly.com:
What the media can learn from Occupy  —  In 30 years of reporting, I've never covered a story quite like Occupy Wall Street, the cacophonous drum line of a leaderless protest against greed and inequality (and a bunch of other stuff) that started in New York on Sept. 17 and spread quickly to Philadelphia on its path from coast to coast.
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Kindle Fire Offers ‘Disappointingly Poor’ Experience; ‘Miserable’ Magazines  —  Will the projected 3.9 million Kindle Fire buyers this quarter end up disappointed with their new tablets?  User-experience guru Jakob Nielsen's new usability report finds the Fire's 7-inch screen troublesome …
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Wall Street Journal Releases Kindle Fire-Only App
Reuters:
Australia scraps satellite TV tender in blow to Sky, News Corp.  —  Australia's government on Monday ruled out awarding a contract to broadcast local television into Asia to a consortium including Rupert Murdoch's part-owned Sky News, deciding the service would stay with the state broadcaster.
Martin Evans / The Telegraph:
Leveson inquiry: editors 'could have been prosecuted over private detective's blagging'  —  Journalists who commissioned a private detective to illegally obtain personal information and their editors could have been prosecuted but were never pursued, the Leveson inquiry heard today.
Discussion: Telegraph and The Independent
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BBC:   Leveson Inquiry: Detective hired to follow Grant
 
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
‘Times’ stops scoffing at Cyber Monday, its own third-biggest sales day since launching its digital subscription model
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Newsday to hire 25 in digital expansion
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Jordan Valinsky / Daily Dot:
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Steve Myers / Poynter:
Al Jazeera English opens new bureau in Chicago
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Beth Whisman / WJBC Radio:
Business seeks IDs of anonymous Pantagraph commenters
Discussion: Poynter
John Cook / Gawker:
New York Times Staffers: Now Is the Time to Rat Out Your Colleagues
Elana Zak / 10,000 Words:
78 Percent Of U.K. Newspaper Articles Are Written By Men. Is U.S. Media Any Better?
Reuters:
Media Executives Brace For A Bad Year
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Five tough questions for newspaper organizations as they face investors this week
Discussion: Guardian and Future of Journalism