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1:55 PM ET, December 7, 2011

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Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
Justice Department Confirms E-Book Probe  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. Justice Department confirmed Wednesday that it is conducting an antitrust investigation into the pricing of electronic books, the latest antitrust watchdog to probe whether there was improper collusion by publishers and Apple Inc. to prevent discounting.
Know Your Mobile:
Exclusive: Amazon Kindle Fire coming to UK in January  —  Know Your Mobile has been told Amazon's Android-powered Kindle Fire tablet will be getting a UK release date in January  —  Amazon will be bringing the Kindle Fire to the UK, a source close to the launch has informed us.
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:   Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Be Going International Sooner Rather Than Later
Bloomberg:
Bloomberg News Responds to Bernanke Criticism  —  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said in a letter to four senior lawmakers today that recent news articles about the central bank's emergency lending programs contained “egregious errors.”  —  While Bernanke's letter …
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Felix Salmon / Reuters:   Smackdown of the day: Bloomberg vs the Fed
Binyamin Appelbaum / Economix:
Fed Lashes Out at ‘Errors’ in Reporting
Discussion: FT Alphaville and Forbes
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Verizon Won't Talk About Its Talks to Build a Netflix-Style Service.  But It Is Definitely Talking.  —  Those stories about Verizon launching its own Netflix-style video service?  Ignore them, says Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam.  Those are “all just speculation by people who like to write blogs.”
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Verizon to take on Netflix with Web service
Jim O'Neill / FierceOnlineVideo:
Verizon weighed acquiring Hulu
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Flipboard launches sleek iPhone app with new ‘Cover Stories’ section  —  Popular iPad news reading application Flipboard has made the move to the iPhone and while it retains its smart and simple design, it also has added a new Cover Stories section to boot.  —  Flipboard's application …
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David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Flipboard CEO's new media mission: ‘crawl the social networks’
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Flipboard iPhone app launch takes down entire service (updated)
Joel Gunter / Journalism.co.uk:
Phone hacking: Glenn Mulcaire arrested, reports suggest  —  Arrest is 18th by the Metropolitan police's phone hacking investigation Operation Weeting  —  The Metropolitan police arrested the man at an address in London at 7am today  —  Copyright: Alberto OG on Flickr.  Some rights reserved
Discussion: Daily Mail, The Wrap and Guardian
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Sky News:   Sky Sources: Glenn Mulcaire Held Over Hacking
Steve Myers / Poynter:
No live tweeting or blogging from Jerry Sandusky preliminary hearing  —  A Pennsylvania judge has set out the rules for covering Jerry Sandusky's preliminary hearing next week.  Half of the 200 or so seats in the courtroom will be reserved for media, plus another 100 in a satellite courtroom with closed-circuit video.
Discussion: PennLive.com and mediabistro.com
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Buzz Bissinger / The Daily Beast:
How Jerry Sandusky Played The New York Times in His Interview
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Netflix CEO Compares Company To Bank Of America And Oakland A's  —  Ouch.  Reed Hastings addressed a room of investors and media experts today in a bid to reignite confidence in his company.  After his curious speech, it's unlikely many of them will be jumping back on the Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) bandwagon anytime soon.
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Curtis Cartier / Seattle Weekly:
Unlike Oregon, Bloggers Are Journalists in Washington State, Do Qualify for Legal Protections  —  ​This morning we told you about the troubling case of Crystal Cox, the Oregon blogger who was successfully sued for defamation, thanks in part to a federal court ruling that she isn't a …
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Curtis Cartier / The Daily Weekly:
Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court—Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her
Telegraph:
Andy Coulson sues News Group over refusal to pay phone hacking legal fees  —  Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, took his ex-employer News Group Newspapers to the High Court today over its refusal to reimburse his legal fees arising from the phone-hacking affair.
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Oliver Duff / The Independent:   Rebekah? ‘We helped choose her police station’
Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: NoW's Neville Thurlbeck to give evidence  —  Former News of the World chief reporter to appear next week, as will journalist who wrote Kate McCann private diaries story  —  Neville Thurlbeck, the former News of the World chief reporter, is to appear before the Leveson inquiry next week.
Patrick Meighan / My Occupy LA Arrest,:
My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan  —  My name is Patrick Meighan, and I'm a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.  I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 …
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Telegraph completes £1m review of papers' payments  —  Titles understood to have analysed some 380,000 documents, as News International continues with similar audit  —  The Daily and Sunday Telegraph have conducted an internal investigation of all payments made by the titles …
Discussion: Editors Weblog
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
The aggregator's dilemma: How do you fairly serve your readers & the sources you rely on?  —  When you aggregate content, what obligation do you have to the original source — and to readers?  —  I asked myself this question after seeing how people reacted to the events surrounding Jim Romenesko's departure …
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and AllThingsD
Paul Roderick Gregory / Forbes:
A Blogger Could Start Russia's Arab Spring  —  The new face of the Russian opposition is a young whistle-blowing, shareholder activist, muckraking blogger by the name of Alexei Navalny.  At 2:15 p.m. on Monday, he called his huge internet following to a 7 p.m. demonstration at the Chistye Prudy park …
 
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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:
Broadcasters call for action over signal interference
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Michelle Jaconi To Helm Breaking News Unit For CNN's Washington Bureau
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
New York Times Reveal is the mirror of the future
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Campaigns Take Ad War to TV After Months of Holding Fire
Discussion: The Caucus, Guardian and Daily Dot
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
It's online!  Zombie ‘New York Press’ looks for recruits; owner wants it to be Bloomberg's ‘homepage’
Discussion: Gawker
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David Brauer / MinnPost:
Boogaard's brain: How the New York Times got that story
Discussion: CBS Boston and Poynter
Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
T.J. Holmes Leaving CNN
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Fox News Candidate is... Fox News
David Carr / Media Decoder:
At News Foo, Imagining the End of the World, and How to Cover It
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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
MediaNews Group's ‘Digital-First’ Mondays Bring Some Paywalls Down
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Poynter
 

 
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Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November

Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg:
A look at India's quick food delivery market as Swiggy and Zomato enter the sector; report: online food delivery market in India to reach $15B by March 2029
 
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