Mediagazer: Yahoo Building New York Studio (Georg Szalai/Hollywood Reporter)

11:10 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: paidContent, The New York Observer, The Verge, CNET News, MacRumors and Tech Trader Daily, more at Techmeme »

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: mocoNews, Softpedia News, Electronista and eBookNewser, more at Techmeme »

Ingrid Lunden / paidContent:
Amazon's Kindle Fire Could Be Going International Sooner Rather Than Later

Discussion: AllThingsD

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

James Murdoch's lawyers confirm Tom Watson was put under surveillance — News Corp lawyers say three NI staff were involved in setting up monitoring, but it is not appropriate to name them — James Murdoch's lawyers have confirmed that Labour MP Tom Watson was put under surveillance for a week in 2009 …

Discussion: The New Yorker Blog

Guardian: News Corporation's letter to MPs - full text

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: Online NewsHour, News on News and The New York Observer

Felix Salmon / Reuters: Smackdown of the day: Bloomberg vs the Fed

Binyamin Appelbaum / Economix:
Fed Lashes Out at ‘Errors’ in Reporting

Discussion: The Huffington Post, FT Alphaville and Forbes

Cory Bergman / Lost Remote:

Why news sites should add Facebook's new ‘Subscribe’ button — Facebook exec Joanna Shields just revealed at a conference that the social network is poised to roll out a “Subscribe” button that will allow users to subscribe to other users' updates. Think of it as a Twitter “follow” button for Facebook, embeddable on any site.

Discussion: The Next Web, PC Magazine, ZDNet, AllThingsD, Future of Journalism, WebProNews and Business Insider, more at Techmeme »

Amanda Seef / Eagle News Online:

From the epicenter of scandal: Daily Orange editors report on Syracuse situation — Managing Editor Amrita Mainthia, Editor in Chief Dara McBride and News Editor Meghin Delaney have been spending plenty of time in-house at The Daily Orange offices in the wake of the Bernie Fine scandal.

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Steve Myers / Poynter:
No live tweeting or blogging from Jerry Sandusky preliminary hearing

Discussion: PennLive.com and mediabistro.com

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

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

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Broadcasters call for action over signal interference — Five international broadcasters have issued a joint statement in response to ‘an increase in deliberate interference’ of their signals in the past year — A group of international broadcasters, including the BBC …

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: rbr.com, Press Gazette and Guardian

Sky News: Sky Sources: Glenn Mulcaire Held Over Hacking

Oliver Duff / The Independent:
Rebekah? ‘We helped choose her police station’

Discussion: Press Gazette

Telegraph: Andy Coulson sues News Group over refusal to pay phone hacking legal fees

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Yahoo Building New York Studio … NEW YORK About 5,000 square feet in an office building at the corner of Manhattan's 40th Street and Avenue of the Americas will become the city's next major studio space by mid-March. — But the company that is looking to transform …

Discussion: NYConvergence.com, CNET News and Medacity

Dan Trombetto / Folio:

Condé Nast Partners with AdMeld in Private Digital Ad Exchange — eBay and Macy's among participating clients. — In a major magazine publisher first, Condé Nast launched a private advertising exchange for select digital clientele. Partnering with service provider AdMeld …

Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab and NetNewsCheck Latest

Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:

Flipboard iPhone app launch takes down entire service (updated) — After last night's highly anticipated launch of the Flipboard news reading app for iPhone, the entire Flipboard service has been taken down. In a tweet posted to the official Flipboard Twitter account …

Discussion: CNET News and iPhone in Canada Blog

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 launches sleek iPhone app with new ‘Cover Stories’ section

Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

WSJ Editor: Our Competitors' Hacking Coverage Is ‘Abysmally Conflicted’ — Thomson. Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — The Wall Street Journal's news pages and its editorial page don't always see eye to eye, but on this they can agree: Other news organizations …

Discussion: Erik Wemple

Reuters:

Newspaper companies put their money where the clicks are — (Reuters) - Media companies McClatchy Co and Media General Inc, which are seeing their focus on online content starting to pay off, are speeding up their investments in digital media. — Newspaper publishers in the United States …

Discussion: Poynter

Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post:

‘WAR!’ How a stunned media broke the Pearl Harbor news. — For a time on Dec. 7, 1941, millions of Americans were getting their news about the attack on Pearl Harbor through a person named Ruthjane Rumelt. — She was an aide to White House Press secretary Stephen T. Early …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

PCC proposes wide-ranging shakeup of press self-regulation — Press Complaints Commission hopes front page adjudications would help restore confidence after phone-hacking scandal — Newspapers would be obliged to trail brokered corrections on the front page as part of a wide-ranging shakeup …

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.

Discussion: Press Gazette