Mediagazer: Thurlbeck rounds on NoW executives in new evidence (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)

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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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:

Thurlbeck rounds on NoW executives in new evidence — Former News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck has told MPs about a culture of “suppression” and “paralysis” at the News of the World which he says had “catastrophic consequences” for the paper.

MediaShift:

Nobel Prize Winner on How New Media is Democratizing Science News — MediaShift's science journalism coverage is sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School, which offers an innovative specialized M.A. for experienced journalists who want to cover science, business, arts or politics in a sophisticated, nuanced manner.

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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 …

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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Tom Stites / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Taking stock of the state of web journalism — Editor's note: Tom Stites had a long career in newspapers, editing Pulitzer-winning projects and working at top newspapers like The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. In recent years, he's shifted his emphasis …

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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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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 …

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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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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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Andrew Phelps / Nieman Journalism Lab:

The AP brings a quasi-competitor into the fold — In 2008, eight Ohio newspapers, upset with what they saw as high prices charged by the Associated Press, rebelled against the wire to form their own statewide news-sharing service, the Ohio News Organization.

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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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Dorian Benkoil / MediaShift:

Tear Down the Wall Between Business and Editorial! — For too long, reporters and editors have been unaware, even hostile to the business sides of their organizations. Those attitudes have helped push the news industry into its current dire state. — And that's why I say: Tear down the wall between business and editorial.

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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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Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:

PCC proposes wide-ranging shakeup — 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 of press self-regulation proposed …

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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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 …