Mediagazer: Accused of plagiarism, Fast Company blogger says he meant to steal from someone else (Craig Silverman/Poynter)

12:30 PM ET, April 10, 2012

Top News:

Guardian moves into journalism training business — Guardian News and Media is set to diversify into journalism training. — The newspaper group, which made losses before tax of £33m last year, is understood to be set to launch a course offering training in digital journalism at a cost …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, NetNewsCheck Latest and Guy Fawkes' blog

Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:

63 Minutes With Alan Rusbridger — The Guardian is a very different kind of beast from other papers," Alan Rusbridger tells me, strolling through the British newspaper's new American office, a bright-white Soho loft with rows of bright-white tabletops—almost a fantasy of European cool. "

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:

The Guardian Lost $50 Million Last Year — The Guardian is widely respected for breaking such huge stories as the News International phone hacking scandal, but Alan Rusbridger, its Edit0r-in-Chief, knows that while admiration is nice, money is necessary. He tells New York that the fantastic paper lost …

Jesselyn Radack / Salon:

Obama targets journalists — For two years I have been writing about the criminalization of whistleblowing, or as Glenn Greenwald has put it more aptly, the “war on whistleblowers.” I'm an attorney with the Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower organization.

Discussion: Government Accountability …

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

More journalists linked to case charging ex-CIA officer with leaks about interrogators — The identities of journalists who allegedly received illegal leaks from former CIA officer John Kiriakou are spilling into the public domain in the wake of his indictment last week on charges that he disclosed …

Discussion: MOTHERBOARD and Techdirt

Micah L. Sifry / TechPresident:

Watergate and the Internet: A Cautionary Tale From Bob Woodward — Last Tuesday at the American Society of News Editors annual conference, on a panel called “Watergate 4.: How Would the Story Unfold in the Digital Age?” veteran investigative journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein …

Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter, Jay Rosen and techpresident.com/node/feed

Guido Fawkes:

Motorman: Britain's Biggest Establishment Cover-Up Thousands of Crimes Committed By Over 300 Journalists Protected from Exposure by a Judge and Newspaper Editors — If a police-led investigation uncovered thousands of crimes committed by over 300 suspected serial criminals …

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk and Press Gazette

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Operation Motorman: Guido Fawkes under fire over publication of files

Discussion: @GuidoFawkes, Hacking inquiry and Journalism.co.uk

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Publishing is no longer a job or an industry — it's a button — As he has shown with books like “Here Comes Everybody” and his ideas about how the “cognitive surplus” has created a crowdsourcing explosion, Clay Shirky has a way of putting his finger on trends in media …

Discussion: eMedia Vitals and Techdirt

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Limbaugh to Leave AM Station in Philadelphia — “The Rush Limbaugh Show” is leaving the dominant conservative talk radio station in Philadelphia, one of the biggest radio markets in the country. — In its place on the station, WPHT, will go “The Michael Smerconish Show,” hosted by Mr. Smerconish, a native of the city.

Discussion: Radio & Television …, The Huffington Post, Mediaite, Media Matters for America, ThinkProgress and Chickaboomer

Hollywood Reporter:

Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace Pays Tribute to Dad Mike Wallace — “I already miss him terribly,” he says of the late news legend. — Chris Wallace has a few words to say about the late Mike Wallace, his father and fellow TV broadcaster. — The younger Wallace, who anchors Fox News Sunday …

Discussion: Show Tracker and The Huffington Post

Bloomberg:

Al-Jazeera Gets Rap as Qatar Mouthpiece — Having built considerable goodwill among various Arab publics tired of state-run TV, Al-Jazeera is facing a slew of criticisms from commentators who argue the channel has gone off track. The strength of the regional station, founded in 1996 and based in Qatar …

Alexander Zaitchik / Salon:

Amazon's $1 million secret — By quietly supporting small presses and literary nonprofits, is Amazon backing book culture or buying off critics? — The Brooklyn Book Festival's website debuts a new feature this year called OnePage. Every week from March through September …

Discussion: TeleRead and bookforum.com