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9:20 AM ET, April 19, 2012

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Guardian:
Watson: News Corp was like ‘shadow state’  —  Labour MP who led campaign against phone hacking also says News of the World aimed to investigate MPs' provate lives  —  News Corporation is a “toxic institution” that operated like a “shadow state” in British society, according to a Labour MP …
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Reuters:
UK parliament aims to publish hacking report on May 1  —  (Reuters) - British legislators said on Thursday they hoped to publish on May 1 a long-awaited report into a phone hacking scandal centered on News Corp's now-closed News of the World tabloid.  —  Parliament's culture committee …
Paul McNally / Journalism.co.uk:
Starmer: Charging advice ‘likely’ for more journalist cases
Discussion: Journalism.co.uk
Telegraph:   Sun royal editor Duncan Larcombe held in ‘illegal payment’ raids
The Independent:
Brooks and Thurlbeck at risk as prosecutors get first hacking files
Discussion: Press Gazette
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Pentagon Asked Newspaper Not to Publish Photos  —  The grisly photographs of American soldiers posing with the body parts of Afghan insurgents during a 2010 deployment in Afghanistan were the source of a dispute between The Los Angeles Times and the Pentagon lasting weeks.
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Grant McCool / Reuters:
Apple wants trial on e-book price-fixing: lawyer  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations that it conspired with publishers to raise prices of electronic books, a lawyer for the Silicon Valley giant said in court on Wednesday.
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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
All 50 states may join e-book refund settlement  —  The lawsuits over price-fixing in the e-book market took a new twist today after a HarperCollins lawyer predicted that three publishers could reach a settlement with all 50 state governments in the next two months.
Discussion: TeleRead
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
New York Times Co. Reports Gain in Net Income  —  The New York Times Company reported on Thursday a large gain in first-quarter net income, driven largely by the sale of its regional newspapers, the sale of part of its stake in a New England sports group and an increase in circulation revenue at its flagship newspaper.
Discussion: Poynter
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:   Gannett's poor 1st quarter results bode ill for newspapers in 2012
BBC:
President Obama leads tributes to TV host Dick Clark  —  Tributes have been pouring in following the death of American veteran TV presenter Dick Clark, with President Barack Obama saying he “reshaped the television landscape forever”.  Clark, who was 82, died following a heart attack on Wednesday.
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Bruce Weber / New York Times:
TV Emperor of Rock ’n’ Roll and New Year’s Eve Dies at 82
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
Bill O'Reilly & Sean Hannity Closing New Deals With Fox News Channel  —  EXCLUSIVE: I've learned that Fox News Channel is finalizing new deals with its two biggest stars, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.  The new multi-year, multi-million dollar agreements, which are expected to be completed …
Guardian:
Julian Assange's lawyer ‘prevented from boarding flight at Heathrow’  —  A lawyer for the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has said she was stopped at Heathrow airport and told she was on a watch list requiring official approval before she could return to her native Australia.
Discussion: NEWS.com.au
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Gold below the fold: new metrics promise end of unseen ads  —  According to estimates, 30 percent of online ads are seen by no one at all.  This happens when ads are stuffed on part of a Web page that no one sees or when an ad doesn't finish loading until after a reader has scrolled past it.
Discussion: NetNewsCheck Latest
Laura Stampler / Business Insider:
FINALLY!  Tumblr Will Start Selling Ad Units On May 2  —  In a 2010 interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tumblr CEO and founder David Karp said, “We're pretty opposed to advertising.  It really turns our stomachs.”  —  How times have changed.  Karp announced at Ad Age's Digital Conference that on May 2 …
Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Who watches the watchmen?  The Guardian crowdsources its investigation into online tracking  —  As Guardian journalists were preparing to launch their new investigative project on cookies and other online tools that track you around the web, they realized they had to figure out just what kind of trackers exist on their own website.
Discussion: Guardian
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Current TV to Hire Gavin Newsom, California's Lieutenant Governor  —  Updated Gavin Newsom, the lieutenant governor of California, is getting a second job: as a talk show host on Current TV, the progressive cable television upstart.  —  “The Gavin Newsom Show” will be shown weekly starting in May, the channel announced on Wednesday.
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Tim Molloy / The Wrap:   Gavin Newsom Gets Current TV Show — What About the Equal Time Rule?
 
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