Mediagazer: As 17 more states join class action against book publishers and Apple, new details revealed (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

11:50 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 …

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Leveson inquiry: Jeremy Hunt, adviser and lobbyist to appear in next fortnight — Lord Justice Leveson has said culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, his former special adviser Adam Smith and News Corp lobbyist Frédéric Michel would all give evidence to the inquiry into press ethics in the next fortnight.

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Rebekah Brooks case: who are the five others to be charged? — Brooks, a horse trainer and an Old Etonian, is a friend of David Cameron and was introduced to his wife, Rebekah, by Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, another of the so-called “Chipping Norton set”, a group of high-flying political and media types who live on Oxfordshire.

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: Journalism.co.uk

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: Free Press, 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) …

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.

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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 …

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Steve Myers / Poynter:

Photographer says CNN's first edit of her Appalachia photos misrepresented her work — Photographer Stacy Kranitz has been traveling to Appalachia for a project called “Regression to the Mean,” in which she explores whether stereotypes accurately represent a place and its people.

Discussion: Walk your camera

Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

CNN To Launch ‘CNN Films’ Features Banner — First on TVNewser: CNN is planning to launch a new feature film banner called CNN Films that will develop “tentpole” non-fiction films for television and theatrical release, TVNewser has learned. — The plan is for CNN Films to pursue well-known …

Press Gazette:

Alastair Campbell: Cameron didn't want Leveson Inquiry — Former Number 10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell has claimed that Prime Minister David Cameron did not want to set up the Leveson Inquiry. — Campbell said comments made at a Westminster lunch by Michael Gove in February were part of a wider Government strategy.

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