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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 …
Erin Carlson / Hollywood Reporter:
Roger Ailes Slams Gawker as Fox News Mole Reveals Himself, is Fired (Video)
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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
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Fox News Shouldn't Sue Over the ‘Fox Mole’ (Analysis)
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Gawker and The Huffington Post
David Carr / Media Decoder:
Fox Quickly Hunts Down Mole (My, That Didn't Take Long)
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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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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 …
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, The Next Web, Forbes and Tradigital
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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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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Julie Moos / Poynter:
Special prosecutor in Trayvon Martin case: ‘The media has helped’ — Florida State Attorney and special prosecutor Angela Corey praised journalists during the news conference in which she announced that George Zimmerman has been charged with murder in the second degree for the February 26th shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
How 5 news sites monitor, moderate conversation about Trayvon Martin stories
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The Huffington Post
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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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
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Gingrich Unloads on Fox News in Private Meeting — DOVER, Del. — During a meeting with 18 Delaware Tea Party leaders here on Wednesday, Newt Gingrich lambasted Fox News Channel, accusing the cable network of having been in the tank for Mitt Romney from the beginning of the Republican presidential fight.
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msnbc.com, The Caucus, Guardian, Erik Wemple, Mediaite, Associated Press, Mother Jones, TVNewser, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer, Politico, The Huffington Post, ThinkProgress and TVNewser
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 …
Lucy Madison / The Awl:
How 25 National Magazine Award Nominations Went To 25 Male Writers — Last week, the American Society of Magazine Editors released its list of nominees for the 2012 National Magazine Award. In the so-called “brass ring” long-form categories—reporting, feature writing, profile writing …
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David Benoit / Deal Journal:
Warren Buffett Building Newspaper Empire? — The Oracle of Omaha seems to see a better fate for U.S. newspaper publishers than the dismal destiny he forecasted for them back in 2009. … By buying up loans in recently bankrupt Lee Enterprises Inc., Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway …
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Wall Street Journal
Sarah Marshall / Journalism.co.uk:
How the Texas Tribune is making $5K a month from Google microsurveys — A look at how the Texas Tribune and Adweek are using Google microsurveys as an additional revenue stream — Two weeks ago Google announced that it had partnered with a group of US publishers to launch microsurveys.
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The Next Web and eMedia Vitals
Eric Engleman / Bloomberg:
Web Piracy Bills ‘Dead’ in U.S. From Lobbying, Dodd Says — Hollywood-backed legislation to fight online piracy, shelved this year after an Internet protest led by Google Inc. (GOOG) and Wikipedia, is “dead,” said the head of the trade group for the largest movie studios.
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