Mediagazer: Sleeping E-Book Giant Google Rolls Over Bookstore Partners (Tim Carmody/Wired)

9:10 AM ET, April 6, 2012

Top News:

Matt Lauer to Stay With NBC's ‘Today’ Show — NBC News has signed Matt Lauer to a new multiyear contract to remain as the co-host of the “Today” show, addressing one of the division's most pressing issues. — The news will be announced formally on the air during the show Friday morning.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

Current TV responds to Olbermann's lawsuit — Current TV spokesperson Laura Nelson forwards the company's official reaction to Keith Olbermann's lawsuit, which he filed today against the network:

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Matthew Belloni / Hollywood Reporter:

Keith Olbermann Files Lawsuit Against Current TV (Read the Complaint) — Sources say the suit was filed Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court. — Keith Olbermann — The war of words between Keith Olbermann and Current TV is now officially a legal battle …

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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Current TV Disputes Reuters Report They're In Danger Of Being Dropped By Time Warner

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Reuters:

NBC probe centers on staffer in shooting story error — (Reuters) - An internal NBC News probe has determined a “seasoned” producer was to blame for a misleading clip of a 911 call that the network broadcast during its coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting, according to two sources at the network.

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Tim Carmody / Wired:

Sleeping E-Book Giant Google Rolls Over Bookstore Partners — In the year since Judge Denny Chin invalidated Google's agreement with the Authors' Guild to display and sell digital editions of orphaned works, the towering monolith of search has been a sleeping giant in e-books.

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Google: No more e-books for indie booksellers

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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

OC Register assigns 70 reporters to cover one baseball game — Usually, when the majority of reporters in a newsroom rallies around coverage of a single story or event — floods the zone, you might say — something really big is breaking. Maybe a mass shooting, a tsunami, or a terrorist attack.

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Actually, Arianna Huffington Has Been Demoted — Despite a story in today's New York Times headlined: “Huffington Gains More Control in AOL Revamping,” Arianna Huffington has in recent weeks seen a “narrowing” of her job at AOL, a source close to AOL tells us.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYU releases list of ‘100 Outstanding Journalists’ — Ring the alarm bells, defenders of traditional journalism! New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute is marking a century of journalistic education with...a listicle? — Actually, defenders of traditional journalism …

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Stefanie Botelho / Folio:

Next American City to Relaunch Site, Debut Long-Form E-Singles — Website will mix curated and original content. — Next American City, a non-profit media organization focused on urban affairs, is refreshing its strategy. The publisher's quarterly print publication folded in late 2011 …

David Folkenflik / NPR:

The Roots Of An Empire: Rupert Murdoch's Australia … Rupert Murdoch takes over the Daily Mirror, a Sydney tabloid, in May 1960. Sometimes soft-spoken, but invariably hard-driving, Murdoch acquired major papers in every Australian state. He bought TV stations and established the first truly national daily.

Tim Elfrink / Riptide 2.0:

Anders Gyllenhaal, Ex-Miami Herald Editor, Made Almost $1.3 Million at McClatchy Last Year — At the Miami Herald, staffers are facing two weeks of unpaid furloughs this year and a hiring freeze has left key jobs unfilled for months. The paper's parent company, McClatchy …

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Adrienne LaFrance / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Wait — so how many newspapers have paywalls? — It can be hard to measure something that keeps growing. — Just over two weeks ago, the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism reported that there are roughly 150 dailies in the United States that now have some form of digital subscription service.

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John Ryley / Sky News:

A CASE OF DOUBLE STANDARDS? — The Guardian today published an appraisal of a story story broadcast by Sky News almost four years ago. In the 2008 case of Anne Darwin, whose “canoe man” husband John Darwin faked his own death as part of an insurance fraud, we provided the police with emails …