Mediagazer: Amazon aims to launch front-lit Kindle in July: source (Nivedita Bhattacharjee/Reuters)

9:50 AM ET, May 15, 2012

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Sandra Laville / Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks to be charged with perverting the course of justice — Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be charged with perverting the course of justice, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday. She faces three charges of conspiracy to pervert …

Discussion: New York Times, New York Magazine, Gawker, Poynter, cps.gov.uk, Press Gazette, AllThingsD, Deadline.com, Vanity Fair, Wall Street Journal, Media Week, Bloomberg, London Evening Standard, @skymartinbrunt, @dansabbagh, @lisaocarroll and @howardkurtz

Joel Gunter / @joelmgunter:

Both News Corp PR Frederic Michel and Hunt spad Adam Smith will give evidence at inquiry before end of May, #Leveson says.

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

News Corp info prompts two more Elveden arrests — Officers from Operation Elveden, the Met's probe into alleged illegal payment to police and public officials, arrested two more people this morning. — A man and woman were arrested at their home address in north west London at 6am, according to a statement from the Met.

Discussion: Guardian and Journalism.co.uk

Press Gazette:
Alastair Campbell: Cameron didn't want Leveson Inquiry

Discussion: The Independent, Media & Entertainment, Telegraph and Guardian

Telegraph:
Anonymous attacks Leveson and ICO websites

Discussion: @philhancnn and @ukanonymous2012

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
O'Donnell: Hunt should have known of adviser's contact with News Corp

Discussion: @skynewsbreak and Press Gazette

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo Chairman Wants Interim CEO to Be Permanent CEO — Yahoo Inc.'s interim chief executive, Ross Levinsohn, addressed the company's employees Monday afternoon, a day after the company parted ways with Scott Thompson, who was CEO for less than five months before being hit by a scandal involving his academic credentials.

Discussion: CNET, Digits and AllThingsD

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Does Yahoo even know how to be a modern media company? — Now that Yahoo has managed to make its way through yet another CEO shuffle — its sixth in just five years — the former portal has to get back to the main task at hand: namely, figuring out what its future looks like.

Discussion: AllThingsD, The New York Observer, the Econsultancy blog, Guardian and The Daily Caller, Thanks:@jspepper

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Here's New Yahoo CEO's First Note to Troops! (The Leaking-Internal-Memos-to-ATD Policy Remains in Effect As Usual)

Discussion: Adweek, NetNewsCheck Latest, AllThingsD, @peterlauria3, VatorNews, Bigmouthmedia Search …, ZDNet, The Wrap, Forbes and Business Insider

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

A Ray of Light for the New York Times — It's easy to write dour predictions about the state of the newspaper industry. So here's a relatively sunny one: One day, not that far away, the New York Times' growing subscriber base will make up for its shrinking ad business.

Discussion: FishbowlNY, Poynter, eMedia Vitals and City Room

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

As 17 more states join class action against book publishers and Apple, new details revealed — New York, the District of Columbia and fifteen other states have joined the e-book pricing class action suit against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin, bringing the total number of states involved so far to 31 (if you include DC and Puerto Rico).

Discussion: CNET, Melville House Books, TeleRead, Business Insider and MacRumors

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Steve Jobs on camera: ‘The publishers are actually going to withhold their books from Amazon’ — Paid Content's Laura Hazard Owen, combing through documents newly unredacted in the states' (as opposed to the U.S. Department of Justice's) antitrust complaint against Apple (AAPL) …

Nivedita Bhattacharjee / Reuters:

Amazon aims to launch front-lit Kindle in July: source — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc will launch new versions of its Kindle e-reader and tablet, including a monochrome e-reader with front lighting, a source who has seen the prototype told Reuters. — The world's largest Internet retailer …

Discussion: PC Magazine, Forbes, Pocket-lint, The Verge, CNET, Bookseller news and Engadget

Rosanna Xia / Los Angeles Times:

Journalist expelled from China reflects on experience — Melissa Chan of Walnut is the first accredited foreign correspondent to be barred from China in 14 years. She is not sure what prompted her expulsion. — Melissa Chan and her Al Jazeera news team report on the Sichuan earthquake disaster area in December 2008.

Discussion: LA Observed and TVNewser

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Steiger to Step Down as ProPublica's Editor — Paul E. Steiger, the former longtime managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, will step down at the end of the year as the editor in chief and chief executive of ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news organization that he started nearly five years ago.

Discussion: Journalism.co.uk, NetNewsCheck Latest, FishbowlNY, Forbes and New York Magazine

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

At the ‘Times,’ a letter to Sulzberger asks him to ‘reconsider’ firing beloved media lawyer George Freeman — A week after the beloved New York Times assistant general counsel George Freeman lost his job in a round of layoffs, nearly 60 New York Times journalists put their names to a letter …

Discussion: The Newspaper Guild

Alex Weprin / TVNewser: Joe Scarborough Cites NBC Layoffs As Good Business

Dylan Byers / Politico:

USA Today names Larry Kramer publisher — Gannett announced today that it has appointed MarketWatch founder Larry Kramer president and publisher of USA Today, effective immediately. — Kramer will be responsible for developing and executing the long-term strategic vision for USA Today across …