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12:45 PM ET, January 19, 2012

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Darrell Etherington / GigaOM:
Apple unveils iBooks Author, a Mac app for easy interactive e-book authoring  —  Apple's Roger Rosner, VP of productivity software, showed off Apple's new iBooks Author on Thursday at Apple's special media event in NYC. iBooks Author is a Mac app that provides tools to help anyone publish …
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Bits:
Apple Unveils App and Tools for Digital Textbooks  —  Updated Adding more details as the press conference progresses.  —  NEW YORK — Apple wants students to bid farewell to the days of lugging around backpacks of heavy textbooks, and to welcome the iPad tablet as their new all-in-one reading device.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The day the bookshelf shook: Four lessons for news orgs from today's Apple iBooks announcements
Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:
Houghton Mifflin, McGraw Hill, Pearson First Textbook Publishing Partners For Apple's iBooks 2
Discussion: Softpedia News
Reuters:
Victims say News Corp has admitted hacking cover-up  —  (Reuters) - The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has acknowledged to victims that executives covered up the scale of illegal activity by destroying evidence and lying to investigators, victims' lawyers said on Thursday.
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Ben Fenton / @benfenton:
Press Gazette:
37 phone-hacking settlements confirmed at High Court  —  Nineteen more civil damages claims brought over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal have been settled, the High Court heard today.  —  Actor Jude Law, former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott and Labour MP Chris Bryant …
Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:   NoW illegally intercepted emails of Harold Shipman's son
Neville Thurlbeck:
News International's Crisis of Trust - The Staff
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Dan Sabbagh / Guardian:
Phone hacking settlements: full list of who got what
Discussion: paidContent and @michaelwolffnyc
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Drudge Gets Exclusive, But When Will ABC Air Interview With Marianne Gingrich?  —  Earlier this evening, the Drudge Report teased an exclusive with the single most vague headline in modern journalism history: “Network Holds Bombshell Campaign Interview.”  Accompanied with the legendary …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
HuffPo Partners With L'Espresso For 'L'Huffington Post Italy'  —  The Huffington Post Media Group (NYSE: AOL) is partnering with Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso for the launch this year of an Italian edition, paidContent has learned.  The partnership, to be announced today …
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Max Colchester / Wall Street Journal:
Le Huffington Post to Launch in France
Discussion: Gawker and Forbes
Eric Savitz / Forbes:
Amazon Kindle Fire: More Profitable Than Expected?  —  The Amazon Kindle Fire might be a more profitable product than you think.  —  RBC Capital analyst Ross Sandler reached that conclusion in a research note this morning, after he assessed the results of a proprietary survey of 216 Kindle Fire owners.
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paidContent:
Why Amazon's Plagiarism Problem Is More Than A Public Relations Issue
Discussion: Crikey
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Hearst Names First-Ever CTO  —  Publisher and broadcaster Hearst Corp. has hired its first-ever chief technology officer as it tries to expand its digital footprint.  Former Sony executive Philip R. Wiser will start in the new position Feb. 1.  —  Wiser was CTO of Sony Corp. of Americas from 2004 to 2006 …
Haaretz:
Netanyahu denies calling Haaretz and New York Times Israel's ‘main enemies’  —  According to statement released by PMO, Jerusalem Post editor Steve Linde's remarks to a conference in Tel Aviv were a misrepresentation of the meeting with Netanyahu.  —  Get Haaretz on iPhone  —  Get Haaretz on Android
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
The New York Times Bits Blog Gets a Billboard  —  Competition in the technoblogoverse just got a little fiercer!  The New York Times Bits technology blog now has its very own billboard on Highway 101.  —  Specifically, the billboard is on 101 southbound in South San Francisco, just north of SFO.
Discussion: Forbes
Michael Hastings / Rolling Stone:
Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview  —  Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‘Times,’ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism  —  It's a few days before Christmas, and Julian Assange has just finished moving to a new hide-out deep in the English countryside.
Discussion: Poynter
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Jack Shafer / Reuters:   WikiLeaks' 16th minute
 
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
Atlantic Tries A Business Site Again; WSJ's Delaney Will Lead Editorial
Discussion: FishbowlNY and Talking Biz News
Steve Myers / Poynter:
About 7,300 reporters and editors are among the 1 percent
Discussion: Guardian
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Washington Post photo spurs debate over use of HDR technology
Saeed Kamali Dehghan / Guardian:
Three Iranian journalists arrested in fresh crackdown
Discussion: Global Voices
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Why Boston.com got into the sports tickets business
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Maurice Chammah / The Huffington Post:
Journalism in Egypt: A Very Quick Guide
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Boston Globe mistake raises questions about how media cover sex offenders
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Lucia Moses / Adweek:
‘The Week’ Snags 'Men's Journal' Publisher Michael Wolfe is leaving Wenner Media By Lucia Moses
Felix Salmon:
Will fact-checking go the way of blogs?
TJ Raphael / Folio:
SOPA and Magazine Media
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
On TV, Antipiracy Coverage May Include a Disclosure
Discussion: The New York Observer and TVNewser
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Time.com Launches Business Vertical
Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online:
When a Web Community Becomes a Book Publisher
Discussion: Future of Journalism
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The Story Behind Rupert Murdoch's Rants About Google and SOPA
Laura Kusisto / Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Media Aiming High in City
Discussion: Future of Journalism