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6:30 AM ET, January 20, 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 Introduces Tools to (Someday) Supplant Print Textbooks  —  Updated  —  Apple wants students to stop lugging around backpacks full of heavy textbooks and to switch to the iPad instead.  —  On Thursday the company introduced three free pieces of software revolving around education.
Dan Wineman / venomous porridge:
The Unprecedented Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA  —  Apple just released iBooks Author, a free Mac app for creating digital books for the new version of iBooks.  I haven't played with it much, but so far it looks like a very good tool.  However, a curious thing happens when you go to export your work in iBooks format:
Paul Carr / PandoDaily:
iBooks Author Is Not Going To Hurt Publishers. It Might Even Help Them
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
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
How Media Shaped Romney's ‘Inevitable’ Narrative  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. — Mitt Romney won the Iowa Caucus by eight votes over Rick Santorum, according to reports by every news organization on Jan. 4.  Now two weeks later, there's a different story: Santorum is ahead of Romney by 34 votes …
Associated Press:
Indictment Charges Megaupload Site With Piracy  —  McLEAN, Va. — Federal prosecutors in Virginia say they have shut down one of the world's largest Internet file-sharing sites, Megaupload.com, and charged its founder and others with violating piracy laws.  —  An indictment accuses the company …
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Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
The Mega empire: details of the MegaUpload indictment  —  The FBI moved Thursday to shut down MegUpload.com and arrest four of its executives including its founder Kim Schmitz.  The feds are alleging criminal copyright infringement and racketeering, and the full indictment has already been posted online.
Chris Ziegler / The Verge:
Anonymous claims DOJ and record label site takedowns in response to MegaUpload suit
Discussion: rt.com and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »
Guardian:
How News Group hid phone-hacking scandal  —  Judge criticises Murdoch empire as it agrees aggravated damages for 37 victims of News of the World  —  A high court judge said the Murdoch-owned company behind the News of the World had made “an admission of sorts” that it engaged in a deliberate cover …
Discussion: Press Gazette and CJR
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Erik Larson / Bloomberg:   News Corp. ‘Startling’ E-Mails Trigger New U.K. Computer Search
Neville Thurlbeck:
News International's Crisis of Trust - The Staff
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Jim Romenesko:
Dealing with the Fox News PR machine  —  “Much as I like Gabe Sherman's work, I disagree with him in this instance,” Times media editor Bruce Headlam told me Tuesday night.  “Covering a person or organization doesn't mean you are carrying water for them.  If it did, our homepage right …
Nikki Finke / Deadline.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood Moguls Stopping Obama Donations Because Of President's Piracy Stand: “Not Give A Dime Anymore”  —  EXCLUSIVE: Internet sites on their SOPA-Strike may be conducting a blackout but Hollywood studios are conducting a boycott.  I've learned that Hollywood studio chiefs individually …
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Online Ad Spend Projected To Soar To Nearly $40B  —  In a watershed moment for the Web, researchers expect domestic online advertising to finally surpass print adverting in 2012.  According to eMarketer, U.S. online ad spending will grow an additional 23.3% to $39.5 billion this year.
Erik Wemple:
Memo to ABC: Just run Gingrich interview!  —  The Drudge Report last night blasted out the story that ABC had been sitting on its allegedly explosive interview with Marianne Gingrich.  Here are the specifics: … It's a curious decision regardless of how aggressively the network has been reporting on other candidates.
Hannah Sheehan / On The Media:
Photojournalism's Debt to Kodak  —  Having failed to adequately adapt to the digital age, Eastman Kodak Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week.  Kodak had long been struggling: First, with the advent of digital cameras and then, with the emergence of smartphones that threatened to make even those devices obsolete.
Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:
NewsRight's potential: New content packages, niche audiences, and revenue  —  When NewsRight — the Associated Press spinoff formerly known as News Licensing Group (and originally announced by the AP as an unnamed “rights clearinghouse") — began to lift the veil a couple of weeks ago …
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: TeleRead and Erik Wemple
 
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Pelin Turgut / Time:
The Murder of Hrant Dink: A Turkish Court Denies a Wider Conspiracy
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:
Daily News and Post Feel Same Way About Upcoming Giants Game
Discussion: 10,000 Words and TVNewser
Associated Press:
Oprah Winfrey bodyguards detained in India after getting into scuffle with local media
Julie Moos / Poynter:
International Herald Tribune names new managing editor
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Poll Says Fox News Most Trusted News Source...And Least Trusted
Richard Horgan / FishbowlLA:
Hollywood Reporter Readies Russian Print and Web Editions
Joe Flint / Company Town:
Bloomberg jabs at Comcast on anniversary of NBC deal approval
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Lucas Shaw / The Wrap:
Keith Olbermann to Anchor Current's South Carolina Primary Coverage His Way
Discussion: The New Yorker Blog
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Reuters' branding push results in a luxury magazine that is, literally, for the Davos set
Discussion: Poynter
Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:
Lovefilm lands on LG, Roku up next
Discussion: The Next Web
John Eggerton / Broadcasting & Cable:
‘PBS NewsHour’ to Make Election Coverage Accessible to Diverse Audiences
Haaretz:
Netanyahu denies calling Haaretz and New York Times Israel's ‘main enemies’
Emma Bazilian / Adweek:
Hearst Names First-Ever CTO
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Gina Raimondo says holding back China in the chips race is a “fool's errand”, and investment, more than export controls, will keep US ahead of Beijing

Paresh Dave / Wired:
Google says it wouldn't force its device makers, browser, and wireless carrier licensees to distribute Gemini to US users for three years, in a proposed remedy

Reuters:
Albania bans TikTok for a year from January 2025, part of a broader plan to make schools safer following the killing of a 14-year-old near a school in November
 
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