Mediagazer: Justice Department Confirms E-Book Probe (Thomas Catan/Wall Street Journal)

1:55 PM ET, December 7, 2011

Top News:

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.

Discussion: The New York Observer, MacRumors and Tech Trader Daily

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.

Discussion: paidContent:UK, paidContent, Softpedia News, Electronista, eBookNewser and Pocket-lint, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: The New York Observer and News on News

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.”

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, CNET News and Home Media Magazine

Reuters:
Exclusive: Verizon to take on Netflix with Web service

Jim O'Neill / FierceOnlineVideo:
Verizon weighed acquiring Hulu

Discussion: ZDNet and CNET News, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: 10,000 Words, One Man & His Blog, GigaOM, CNET News, AllThingsD, Editors Weblog, AllThingsD, ReadWriteWeb, Inside Flipboard, GigaOM, Softpedia News, Mashable!, paidContent:UK, Adweek, USA Today and Bits, more at Techmeme »

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Flipboard CEO's new media mission: ‘crawl the social networks’

Discussion: Inside Flipboard, The Verge and MacStories

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Flipboard iPhone app launch takes down entire service (updated)

Discussion: CNET News and iPhone in Canada Blog, more at Techmeme »

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

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

Buzz Bissinger / The Daily Beast:
How Jerry Sandusky Played The New York Times in His Interview

Discussion: Eagle News Online, Forbes, Erik Wemple, Slate and newsfeed.time.com

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.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Netflix's Chief Sees HBO as Its Main Rival

Discussion: VentureBeat, Home Media Magazine, Hollywood Reporter, Techland, Company Town, paidContent, Deadline.com and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »

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 …

Discussion: ShortFormBlog, Kevin Padrick …, The Daily Weekly and Future of Journalism

Curtis Cartier / The Daily Weekly:
Crystal Cox, Oregon Blogger, Isn't a Journalist, Concludes U.S. Court—Imposes $2.5 Million Judgement on Her

Discussion: The FJP, the Econsultancy blog, Techland, Korr Values, MarketingVox News & Trends, Guardian, Street Fight, Free Press, WebProNews, Kevin Padrick …, Future of Journalism, SEO Book.com, ShortFormBlog, Betabeat, @cshirky, @jayrosen_nyu, @jayrosen_nyu and @digiphile

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.

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 …

Discussion: Media News and Future of Journalism