Mediagazer: The Fox Mole numbers (Jim Romenesko)

5:35 PM ET, April 13, 2012

Top News:

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple Fires Back at the Feds, Amazon — Nearly two days after the Department of Justice filed antitrust charges against Apple and major book publishers, Apple is responding. Here's a comment from Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr: … Apple's response is similar to ones made by Penguin Group and MacMillan …

Discussion: Media & Entertainment, TechCrunch, Wired, O'Reilly Radar, MacStories, PC Magazine, Fortune, TUAW, WebProNews, CNET, The Verge, Business Insider, App Advice, Softpedia News, eBookNewser, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, The Next Web, CNET, New York Times and Economist

Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Antitrust Settlement Hits Barnes & Noble Shares

Discussion: Thad McIlroy, Tech Daily Dose, Media Decoder, SlashGear and eBookNewser

Michael Bobelian / Forbes:
The Irony Of The Government's Antitrust Case Against Apple And Five Publishers

Discussion: Forbes

Melody Guyton Butts / Durham Herald-Sun:

Ailes lectures young journalists — CHAPEL HILL - Fox News chief Roger Ailes offered more than a few words of advice Thursday in a room filled mostly with young journalists, starting with a recommendation that elicited at least a few eye rolls: “I think you ought to change your major.”

Discussion: The Wrap, The Huffington Post, mediabistro.com, Mediaite, Erik Wemple, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer, The Daily Tar Heel, News14.com, ABCNEWS, @romenesko, Reesenews, Inside Cable News, TVNewser and Poynter

Jim Romenesko:

The Fox Mole numbers — * “I think it's pretty safe to say my career in cable news is over,” says Muto. (NYDN) — * Is Muto a whistle-blowing hero, or disloyal self-promoter? (csmonitor.com) — * “What is Gawker?” asks Ailes. “Is that a pornographic website?” (Hollywood Reporter)

Foster Kamer / The New York Observer:
The Annotated Gawker Legal Threat: What Fox News Lawyers Fired Off at Their ‘Mole’ Problem

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Poynter, Show Tracker, mediabistro.com, FishbowlNY, Gawker, Gawker, Forbes and Hollywood Reporter

Noam Cohen / Media Decoder:

The New Republic Hawks Access to a ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Dinner — Chris Hughes, the Facebook co-founder who recently bought The New Republic, has promised to use his tech savviness to breathe life into the magazine. On Friday, however, his methods tilted toward old-fashioned hucksterism.

Dylan Byers / Politico: Marty Peretz no longer writing for TNR

Dan Watson / CJR:

Unpublishing Requests Are on the Rise — As more content shifts from print to web, journalists are seeing rising requests from sources to remove stories — I recently encountered a sticky conundrum as editor of a student-run digital news website at the University of Southern California.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, eMedia Vitals and NetNewsCheck Latest

David Teicher / AdAge:

Tumblr Tests New Tools for Users and Brands — Can the Company Be a Business Without Traditional Advertising? Founder David Karp Explains — This may be Instagram's week, but through April, it's been the Year of Tumblr. On Wednesday, the social platform announced a partnership with Spotify.

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim, Betabeat, Digiday and The Next Web

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Bloomberg Businessweek goes magazine-y on the iPhone — Bloomberg Businessweek is testing a question: How well can magazine content work on the iPhone? — Magazine companies have jumped feet first into the iPad marketplace, attracted to the idea that a lean-back medium like magazines …

Discussion: The FJP

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

‘NightJack’ sues Times over email hacking — Detective seeks aggravated damages from paper for breach of confidence, misuse of private information and deceit — The Lancashire detective exposed by the Times as the author of the NightJack police blog has filed a legal claim against Times Newspapers at the high court.

Discussion: New Statesman, Journalism.co.uk, New York Times, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Press Gazette and AdAge

Adam Hochberg / Poynter:

CNN's unedited epithets raise questions about when to use unfiltered hate speech — When Tulsa police arrested two men Sunday in connection with a shooting spree that targeted African-Americans, much of the media drew attention to a racist Facebook post apparently written by one of the suspects.

Discussion: mediaite

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon-owned Audible: Hey authors, want $20 million? — The Amazon-owned digital audiobooks site Audible.com is launching a new program, “Audible Author Services,” that pays audiobook authors $1 per sale through Audible.com, Audible.co.uk, and iTunes, out of a $20 million fund.

Discussion: GalleyCat, The Digital Reader and Guardian

David Roberts / Grist:

HuffPo science editor asks readers: Is climate science true? — [SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM] — Hey, Huffington Post: I'm not one to tell you how to do your business — your budget for the time it takes me to write this sentence is bigger than Grist's budget for the year, so you must be doing something right …

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

PostDesk launches to give long-form journalism and online discussion a shot in the arm — We've previously written that the death of the printing press doesn't mean the death of the press. However, media organizations must evolve and work in new ways, a message that is starting to trickle throughout the press.

Discussion: 10,000 Words