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6:40 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.
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.”
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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: Politico, Guardian and Washington Post
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 …
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Steve Fishman / New York Magazine:   63 Minutes With Alan Rusbridger
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY:   The Guardian Lost $50 Million Last Year
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 …
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.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
More journalists linked to case charging ex-CIA officer with leaks about interrogators
Discussion: MOTHERBOARD and Techdirt
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 …
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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 …
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.
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.
 
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
At the ‘Daily News,’ two court reporters are let go
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Bloomberg:
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Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Cameron, Blair and Brown to appear at Leveson inquiry, reports say
Discussion: Spectator
Matt Stempeck / MIT Center for Civic Media:
Jay Rosen's Three-Layer Journalism Cake
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John Morton / American Journalism Review:
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Alexander Zaitchik / Salon:
Amazon's $1 million secret
Discussion: paidContent, TeleRead and bookforum.com
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Publishing is no longer a job or an industry — it's a button
Discussion: Techdirt and eMedia Vitals
Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
Lessons learned from a letter to curmudgeons
Discussion: eMedia Vitals
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Accused of plagiarism, Fast Company blogger says he meant to steal from someone else
Discussion: Gawker