Mediagazer: Governments Around the World Grapple with Nonprofit Journalism (Josh Stearns/Save the News)

6:30 AM ET, April 13, 2012

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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 …

Discussion: TVNewser, Guardian, @producermatthew, Business Insider, Deadline.com, Mediaite, @joemuto and New York Magazine

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 …

Discussion: Deadspin, NY Daily News, Mashable!, Company Town, Media & Entertainment, TVNewser, WebProNews, Show Tracker, Forbes, Mediaite, Ricochet Conversations Feed, FishbowlNY, Vanity Fair and FishbowlDC

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.

Discussion: Gawker, Erik Wemple and Mediaite

Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
Why Fox News Shouldn't Sue Over the ‘Fox Mole’ (Analysis)

Discussion: Gawker and The Huffington Post

Erin Carlson / Hollywood Reporter:
Roger Ailes Slams Gawker as Fox News Mole Reveals Himself, is Fired (Video)

Discussion: Mediaite, Business Insider, Erik Wemple, FishbowlNY, Gothamist, TVNewser, Forbes, FishbowlLA, New York Magazine, Media Decoder, Forbes, Gawker and ABCNEWS

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.

Discussion: AllThingsD, CNET, The Verge and Softpedia News

David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon Is Set to Shake Rivals

Discussion: Bits, GigaOM, The Next Web, Melville House Books, PandoDaily, Fortune, The Huffington Post, App Advice, Media Decoder, The Billfold, Boing Boing, CNET, Wired, Media News, Digital Spy and Business Insider

Economist:
A too-cosy world? — Readers may not be the ultimate winners in an e-book antitrust case

Discussion: NPR and Technology Review

Declan McCullagh / CNET:
DOJ is likely to lose e-book antitrust suit targeting Apple

Discussion: Guardian, Forbes, MacRumors, App Advice, Ricochet Conversations Feed, VentureBeat, Publishers Weekly, 9to5Mac, The Authors Guild Blog, SlashGear, MarketingVox News & Trends, Business Insider, MacStories, parislemon and afr.com

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 …

Discussion: 10,000 Words and B2B Memes

Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Newspaper Fires Reporter for Showing Mild Sense of Enthusiasm

Discussion: Gannett Blog, MyFoxPhilly.com, @yurivictor, @stevebuttry, @mattderienzo and JIMROMENESKO.COM

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.

Pew Internet:
72% of Americans follow local news closely

Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest, FishbowlNY and WebProNews

Michael Holden / Reuters:

UK police judgment poor in News Corp hacking case: report — (Reuters) - Senior London police staff linked to the News Corp phone hacking scandal showed poor judgment, took bad decisions and got too close to journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's newspapers, an independent watchdog said on Thursday.

Discussion: Bloomberg

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).

Discussion: Reuters, Company Town, Media Decoder, Adweek, The Wrap, The Consumerist and Hillicon Valley, Thanks:@learmonth

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.

Josh Stearns / Save the News:

Governments Around the World Grapple with Nonprofit Journalism — In Free Press' 2011 report on international models for public media, we noted how many of the changes we are witnessing in the American media landscape are also happening internationally. Public media systems around the world …

Thanks:@jcstearns

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Idea #5,704 to save newspapers: Newsprint made from recycled human waste — Israeli company Applied Clean Tech says it has developed a process that recycles “the cellulose in sludge” into paper. That cellulose can be found in used toilet paper, among, well, other substances found in wastewater.

Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Digital Notes: Updating Digital Royalties, and a Peek Under Pandora's Hood — A Royalties Deal: The music industry has never been accused of moving too fast when it comes to new technologies. On Wednesday, after months of negotiations, the major trade groups representing labels …

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.

Discussion: Hillman Foundation, NPR and The Huffington Post

Julie Moos / Poynter:
Special prosecutor in Trayvon Martin case: ‘The media has helped’

Discussion: Trayvon Martin and The New Yorker Blog

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 …