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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.
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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
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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 …
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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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Binyamin Appelbaum / Economix:
Fed Lashes Out at ‘Errors’ in Reporting
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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.
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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
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Buzz Bissinger / The Daily Beast:
How Jerry Sandusky Played The New York Times in His Interview
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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 …
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 …
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
If we are all journalists, should we all be protected? — The bloggers vs. journalists debate may seem like something that's of interest only to media-industry insiders, but it has very real implications for society when it comes to protecting freedom of information, as the case of blogger Crystal Cox has highlighted this week.
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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
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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 …
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Nieman Journalism Lab and NetNewsCheck Latest
Tom Bartlett / Washingtonian Magazine:
How Do You Explain Gene Weingarten? — He's juvenile and more than a little crazy. Friends say he barely copes with day-to-day life. He also happens to be one hell of a writer. — The son asks the father why he's not wearing a seat belt. The father says it's because long ago the father's sister drowned.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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