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8:10 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.
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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.
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 …
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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.”
Conrad Black / Huffington Post Canada:
Will Redford Tell the REAL Watergate Scandal? … Redford Watergate , Bernstein Watergate , Bradlee Watergate , Documentary Watergate , Nixon Watergate , Watergate Documentary , Watergate Redford , Woodward Watergate , Canada News  —  The fact that Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward …
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:   Jay Rosen, Micah Sifry apologize to Bob Woodward
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.
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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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.
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:
Joel Johnson / ANIMAL:
Comments are Bad Business for Online Media  —  I'm in an interesting position.  I'm currently in the process of overhauling this whole ANIMAL thing, from the basics of our site content, to building out plans to expand in the future, how to make money, etc.  We're taking a real stab at turning this little blog into a big ol' thing.
Discussion: GigaOM, The Awl and B2B Memes
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
Amazon will review Kindle newspaper submission after all  —  Days after it told one publisher it had indefinitely suspended the programme to approve its Kindle newspaper edition submission, Amazon has suddenly relented.  —  Last week, Scotland's Herald & Times Group grumbled publicly that …
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 …
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Jesselyn Radack / Salon:
Obama targets journalists
 
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