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John Cook / Gawker:
Here's a Picture of Bill O'Reilly With a Topless Woman Along With the Fox News Legal Threat Meant to Quash It — Hey, look what just came in through the Gawker mailbag from the good people at Epstein Becker & Green P.C.: “Gawker should immediately stop publishing information and videos …
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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:
The ‘Fox News Mole’ Only Cost Gawker $5,000 — What's the going rate for inducing someone to commit career suicide? Apparently you can do it for five grand, as long as that person has a sufficiently large ax to grind against his employer. — Gawker's John Cook tells …
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Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
The Annotated Gawker Legal Threat: What Fox News Lawyers Fired Off at Their ‘Mole’ Problem — Well, it wasn't long, but Gawker's Fox News Mole, Joe Muto, was nabbed. Meanwhile, sometime after Fox News chief Roger Ailes joked to the New York Times' David Carr about the incident ("'I am the Fox Mole,' he told me, then quickly added.
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Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Gingrich Unloads on Fox News in Private Meeting
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Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Fox News Shouldn't Sue Over the ‘Fox Mole’ (Analysis)
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Gawker and The Huffington Post
Erin Carlson / Hollywood Reporter:
Roger Ailes Slams Gawker as Fox News Mole Reveals Himself, is Fired (Video)
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Mediaite, Erik Wemple, FishbowlNY, TVNewser, Business Insider, Gothamist, FishbowlLA, New York Magazine, Forbes, ABCNEWS, Ricochet Conversations Feed and NY Daily News
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Fox Quickly Hunts Down Mole (My, That Didn't Take Long)
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Company Town, Erik Wemple, Forbes, The Awl, Gawker, Chickaboomer and Inside Cable News
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon Is Set to Shake Rivals — The government's decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put the Internet retailer Amazon in a powerful position: the nation's largest bookseller may now get to decide how much an e-book will cost …
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Michael Bobelian / Forbes:
The Irony Of The Government's Antitrust Case Against Apple And Five Publishers — Yesterday, the United States Department of Justice filed a civil complaint in New York accusing Apple and five major publishers of artificially inflating the prices of e-books.
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AllThingsD, CNET, The Verge and MacRumors
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
DOJ is likely to lose e-book antitrust suit targeting Apple — Antitrust experts say feds have “far better case” for price fixing against publishers, three of which have settled, than they do against Apple. — Follow @declanm — Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday said the lawsuit …
Khristopher Brooks / The Huffington Post:
How to Get Fired Before Your First Day — Most college students hope to land a nice-paying job in their field of study immediately after graduation. — And for the most part, I was headed in that direction. I finished my last two classes of graduate school at New York University …
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Newspaper Fires Reporter for Showing Mild Sense of Enthusiasm — Khristopher J. Brooks is a young reporter who was excited to be hired by the Delaware News-Journal last week. In a playful little gesture, he wrote up a fake “press release” on his own personal Tumblr announcing …
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Gannett Blog, MyFoxPhilly.com, Daily Dot, @yurivictor, JIMROMENESKO.COM, @stevebuttry and @mattderienzo
Steve Myers / Poynter:
Study: 7 in 10 local news readers wouldn't greatly miss their hometown paper — Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and Internet & American Life Project — Pew's latest report, a deep dive into the characteristics of people who closely follow local news, is one of those glass-half-full/half-empty situations.
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Ken Wheaton / AdAge:
Court Declares Public TV's Ban on Political Ads Unconstitutional — Says There Is No Evidence It Would Harm Programming — Will your children be accosted by ads from Mitt Romney and Barack Obama while watching “Sesame Street”? A court ruling today makes it a possibility (even if it isn't a strong one).
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
How 5 news sites monitor, moderate conversation about Trayvon Martin stories — A Huffington Post story about George Zimmerman's second-degree murder charge had generated more than 15,000 comments by Wednesday evening. By noon today, the story had more than 25,000 comments.
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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Special prosecutor in Trayvon Martin case: ‘The media has helped’
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The New Yorker Blog
Stefanie Botelho / Folio:
REPORT: Disappointing First Quarter for the Magazine Industry — Overall pages down 8.2 percent for January to March 2012, per PIB. — The magazine industry has not shaken its advertising slump quite yet. According to the latest report from industry authority Publishers' Information Bureau …
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minonline.com and AdAge
Chris Fusco / Chicago Sun Times:
Don Hayner retires as Chicago Sun-Times editor — Don Hayner announced his retirement as editor of the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday. Ernie Torres~Sun-Times file — Chicago Sun-Times Editor in Chief Don Hayner, who started at the newspaper as a general assignment reporter nearly 30 years ago …
PEN American Center:
Top PEN Prize to Honor Eskinder Nega, Jailed Ethiopian Journalist and Blogger — PEN American Center today named Eskinder Nega, a journalist and dissident blogger in Ethiopia, as the recipient of its 2012 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Nega, a leading advocate for press freedom …
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