Mediagazer: Announcing Our Newest Hire: A Current Fox News Channel Employee (The Fox Mole/Gawker)

10:20 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.

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Fox News Is Said to Have a Mole — Fox News apparently has a leak. — The news and gossip Web site Gawker posted a column on Tuesday from a person who it says is a “longstanding, current employee of Fox News Channel.” The anonymous person “will be providing Gawker with regular dispatches …

Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

How Bloomberg Broke The Washington Post's Santorum Scoop — NEW YORK — The political news cycle kicked into overdrive Tuesday afternoon when Bloomberg News staffers began tweeting that Rick Santorum was leaving the Republican race. — Bloomberg TV host Emily Chang tweeted the following: “Report: Santorum dropping out.”

Rosie Gray / Buzzfeed:

How No One Broke The Santorum Dropout Story — The news that Rick Santorum was suspending his presidential campaign broke today with a tweet from a Bloomberg News reporter who cited a Washington Post story with the scoop. The tweet was retweeted by other Bloomberg reporters and soon everyone …

Discussion: Guardian, Washington Post and Politico

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

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

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

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: FishbowlNY, New York Magazine and The Daily Caller

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

Discussion: MOTHERBOARD and Techdirt

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: Media Decoder, Adweek, Broadcasting & Cable, Broadcasting & Cable and Hillicon Valley

Reuters:

DOJ may sue Apple over ebooks early as Wednesday: sources — (Reuters) - The Justice Department could sue Apple Inc as early as Wednesday over alleged electronic book price-fixing, while settling with several publishers as early as this week, two people familiar with the matter said.

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET, The Verge and 9to5Mac

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: IvyGate, JIMROMENESKO.COM, Poynter, Jay Rosen, The Verge, NetNewsCheck Latest and Tech President

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:

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, Digital Spy and Press Gazette

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

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

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

A Lie Races Across Twitter Before the Truth Can Boot Up — It took only two minutes. An unfounded report on a little-known blog claiming that Gov. Nikki R. Haley was about to be indicted rocketed from South Carolina political circles into national circulation, along the way becoming …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, AllTwitter, Mediaite and Poynter

James Barron / City Room:

After Ship Sank, Fierce Fight to Get Story — To newspaper readers, and to the anxious crowds that jammed the streets around newspaper offices, hoping to see giant-letter bulletins be posted on the walls, it was the unforgettable story of the unsinkable ship.