Mediagazer: DOJ may sue Apple over ebooks early as Wednesday: sources (Reuters)

10:05 AM ET, April 11, 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 …

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.

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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: NetNewsCheck Latest, Guardian, Politico and Washington Post

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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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Some big-six publishers refuse to sign new contracts with Amazon — At least two of the big-six publishers are refusing to sign new annual contracts with Amazon. Though that could end with their “buy” buttons being turned off, it is more likely for now that the feud will result in less promotion of their titles on Amazon's website.

Discussion: Bookseller news, NetNewsCheck Latest, TeleRead and Salon

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

YouTube adds pay-per-view to live streaming — YouTube is adding monetization options to its live streaming platform, including the ability for publishers to charge for live events. The new feature was announced on YouTube's publisher blog Tuesday:

Discussion: YouTube Creator Blog, Softpedia News, CNET, Engadget and WebProNews

Globe and Mail:

Facebook's latest intrusion: Apps that 'tell everyone what I'm reading' — In the past few days, a couple of headlines from different news organizations caught my attention on Facebook: “Supermodels without Photoshop,” read one. “Kate Moss's daughter in Vogue airbrushing blunder,” read another.

Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:

Chicago Indy Ad Network Shutting Down After Poor Sales — The Chicago Independent Advertising Network is shutting down six months after it opened for business. — Business manager Mike Fourcher, who publishes the Brown Line Media hyperlocal news sites on Chicago's North Side (all ChiAd members) …

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Martin Baron / New York Times:

High-Impact Journalism — To the Editor: — In “Newspaper Barons Resurface” (Media Equation column, April 9), David Carr equates newspapers with a used Humvee, “a hulking beast that has lost relevance in a changed landscape.” — Clever, but let's take a look.

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Wavii Launches In Public Beta, Aiming To Be Your Big Data News Aggregator Of Choice — After years, yes years, in various states of stealth mode, Seattle-based personalized news aggregation startup Wavii is finally launching to wide scale public consumption.

Discussion: CNET, @mathewi, Digits, The Wall Blog, Wavii Blog, AllThingsD, GeekWire, Techland and VentureBeat

Stuart Dredge / Guardian:

Spotify launches Play Button for websites to stream music — Tumblr support for bloggers alongside big media websites, but no brands allowed — Spotify founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon want to become ‘the OS of music’ — Spotify has unveiled its latest attempt to beef …