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1:25 AM ET, December 8, 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
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
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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 …
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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
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.
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
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 …
Melissa Bell / Washington Post:
Drone journalism?  The idea could fly in the U.S.  —  This January, the FAA will be proposing new rules on the use of drones in American airspace — a possibility some see as positively Orwellian, but others, including some journalists, see as an opportunity.
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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Curtis Cartier / Seattle Weekly:
Unlike Oregon, Bloggers Are Journalists in Washington State, Do Qualify for Legal Protections
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 …
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.
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
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 …
Sky News:
Sky Sources: Glenn Mulcaire Held Over Hacking  —  Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire has been arrested as part of the phone-hacking inquiry, according to Sky sources.  —  Police said a 41-year-old man was arrested this morning as part of Operation Weeting.
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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
Alistair Foster / The Independent:
Bullied to death?  Channel 4 executive died of overdose ‘after abuse by bosses’  —  A Channel 4 executive took a fatal drugs overdose after being “systematically bullied” by her bosses, a coroner heard today.  Sarah Mulvey, 34, who made programmes such as Brat Camp and How To Look Good Naked …
 
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Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post:
‘WAR!’ How a stunned media broke the Pearl Harbor news.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Gannett to expand paywalls across more properties
Discussion: Gannett Blog
Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
WSJ Editor: Our Competitors' Hacking Coverage Is ‘Abysmally Conflicted’
Discussion: Erik Wemple
New York Times:
A Moment in the Sun for Television
Discussion: CNBC
Kris Hammond / Just to Clarify:
Why 90% of news will be computer generated in 15 years
Guardian:
Leveson inquiry: NoW's Neville Thurlbeck to give evidence
Discussion: Press Gazette
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Flipboard iPhone app launch takes down entire service (updated)
Discussion: TechCrunch, GigaOM and VentureBeat
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
Telegraph completes £1m review of papers' payments
Discussion: Editors Weblog
 Earlier Picks: 
Merrill Knox / TVNewser:
Michelle Jaconi To Helm Breaking News Unit For CNN's Washington Bureau
Discussion: Broadcasting & Cable
Harrison Weber / The Next Web:
New York Times Reveal is the mirror of the future
David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Flipboard CEO's new media mission: ‘crawl the social networks’
Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
Netflix CEO Compares Company To Bank Of America And Oakland A's
Patrick Meighan / My Occupy LA Arrest,:
My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
The aggregator's dilemma: How do you fairly serve your readers & the sources you rely on?
Discussion: eMedia Vitals and AllThingsD
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Campaigns Take Ad War to TV After Months of Holding Fire
Discussion: The Caucus and Guardian