Mediagazer: Why the Waterstones/Amazon deal could hurt Waterstones (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

3:15 AM ET, May 22, 2012

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Emails reveal new details about Arianna's role in HuffPo founding, ‘cover-up’ alleged — A series of emails between Arianna Huffington, her partners and the late conservative journalist Andrew Breitbart shed new light on the early days of The Huffington Post.

Discussion: Mixed Media

Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

Huffington Post live video strategy takes shape with new hires, a new name — Huffington Post staffers got a progress report last week on the site's plans for live streaming video. Originally billed during a splashy press event back in February as The Huffington Post Streaming Network …

Erik Wemple:

New York Times public editor to leave in September — New York Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane will leave his position on Sept. 1 of this year, completing a two-year term as in-house watchdog for the paper. The departure means that Brisbane will not serve the one-year option on his contract …

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Steve Myers / Poynter:

NPR creates news applications team as part of strategy for ‘multimedia audio’ — NPR announced to staff Monday that it is creating a team to build news applications and has hired the Chicago Tribune's Brian Boyer to lead it. — The announcement represents a big bet on news applications …

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Ben Sisario / Media Decoder:

Supreme Court Passes on File-Sharing Case, but Still No End Is in Sight — The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in one of the record industry's longest-running cases over unauthorized file-sharing. — The court effectively let stand a jury's $675,000 damages award against Joel Tenenbaum …

Discussion: Techdirt, Techland, PC Magazine and CNET

Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Supreme Court to decide if journalists can sue over warrantless wiretaps — Lawsuit argues that 2008 FISA bill violates the Fourth Amendment. — The United States Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether a coalition of human rights groups and journalists has standing to challenge the 2008 FISA Amendments Act.

Discussion: New York Times

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Why the Waterstones/Amazon deal could hurt Waterstones — UK bookstore chain Waterstones announced today that it's partnering with Amazon to sell the Kindle in its 294 stores starting this fall. — The deal is bad news for Barnes & Noble, which was rumored to be working with Waterstones on a deal of its own.

Discussion: Wall Street Journal and Melville House Books

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

Amazon's Kindle deal with Waterstones deflates Nook's global balloon — Amazon's deal to sell Kindle e-readers at UK bookseller Waterstones isn't just a curio particular to the e-book market in England or a point in the long, declining curve of traditional bricks-and-mortar bookstores.

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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:

Roger Ailes Talks Negotiations With ‘Non-Neutral’ AP, His ‘Fluke’ Career — Fox News CEO Roger Ailes gave a very candid interview to WOUB, a public radio station in Athens, Ohio, where he was in town to speak at his alma mater, Ohio University. — Among other topics (many of them Ohio-centric …

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Houghton Mifflin files Chapter 11 bankruptcy — May 21 (Reuters) - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishers Inc, whose textbooks have been a staple in American schoolhouses for decades, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday after agreeing with creditors to eliminate $3.1 billion of debt.

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

Time Warner Cable Head Sides With TV Networks Over Ad-Erasing Technology — BOSTON — The head of one of the country's biggest cable companies voiced his disapproval of the Dish Network's ad-erasing technology on Monday, aligning himself with television networks that are trying to squash the technology, called Auto Hop.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Are Things Finally Looking Up For Yahoo? — If Scott Thompson's five-month tenure as CEO of Yahoo is remembered at all, it will most likely be as a punch line. But could it be that Thompson, pushed out last week after getting caught with a false degree on his resume, was exactly the CEO Yahoo needed at this particular moment?

Discussion: AdAge

Josh Halliday / Guardian:

Phone hacking: 7/7 bombing victim sues News of the World publisher — A victim of the 7/7 London bombings is suing the publisher of the News of the World after police said his voicemails were targeted by the now-closed Sunday tabloid. Professor John Tulloch, one of the most high-profile survivors …