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5:10 PM ET, April 10, 2012

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The Fox Mole / Gawker:

Announcing Our Newest Hire: A Current Fox News Channel Employee — What follows is the inaugural column of a person we are calling The Fox Mole—a long-standing, current employee of Fox News Channel who will be providing Gawker with regular dispatches from inside the organization.

Discussion: TVNewser, Politico, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @carr2n, Inside Cable News, @billwasik, @michaelroston, @justinnxt and ABCNEWS

Press Gazette:

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, Guy Fawkes' blog and NetNewsCheck Latest

Steve Fishman / New York Magazine: 63 Minutes With Alan Rusbridger

Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: The Guardian Lost $50 Million Last Year

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

John Cook / Gawker:

New York Times Reporter Blasts Boss In Email to 150 of His Best Friends — A few weeks ago, New York Times science and health reporter Don McNeil sent out a scathing email to colleagues attacking Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. for piloting a “ghost ship” and running off to the Himalayas …

Discussion: New York Magazine, FishbowlNY, National Review and The Daily Caller

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, NetNewsCheck Latest, Poynter, The Verge, Jay Rosen and Tech President

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: Press Gazette, Digital Spy and Journalism.co.uk

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

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

Joe Flint / Company Town:

Bloomberg takes another FCC shot at Comcast — Bloomberg LP has filed another complaint with the Federal Communications Commission against Comcast Corp., claiming that the cable giant is thumbing its nose at conditions the government put on it as part of approving its 2011 takeover of NBCUniversal.

Discussion: Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, Broadcasting & Cable and Talking Biz News

Alan Greenblatt / NPR:

Increasingly, Reporters Must First Answer Some Questions — As he's been reporting for NPR.org in recent months, Alan Greenblatt has noticed something unusual: he's increasingly being asked to prove who he is and that he is, in fact, a journalist. Here's what he found when he started to ask why that's happening:

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Coming soon: the Twitter story penned by the Times' Nick Bilton — I am in New York, and obviously meeting a lot people in the publishing business. Word on the street is that Nick Bilton, the technology columnist at The New York Times, has just agreed to a deal with Penguin Portfolio for a book about Twitter.

Discussion: Nick Bilton

Reuters:

Ruling moves Tribune closer to bankruptcy exit — Tribune Co, the bankrupt publisher of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, moved closer to ending its three-year bankruptcy after a judge resolved lingering disputes about the order in which noteholders should be repaid.

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: Techdirt and eMedia Vitals