Mediagazer: Breaking: Penguin settles with Department of Justice in ebook pricing case (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

7:15 PM ET, December 18, 2012

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Mike Brunker / NBC News:

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Breaking: Penguin settles with Department of Justice in ebook pricing case — Penguin, which is in the process of merging with Random House, has settled with the Department of Justice in the ebook pricing lawsuit. The DOJ sued Penguin and four other publishers in April for conspiring to set ebook prices.

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Adrienne LaFrance / Denver Post:

Newtown to the media: You're making this nightmare worse — NEWTOWN - “Enough is enough.” That's how one local woman summed up the weird and terrible media spectacle that has overtaken her once sleepy hometown. — As Newtowners gathered in shock to comfort one another after a 20-year-old resident went …

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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Reports of Fox News Barring Discussions of Gun Control Are Premature — “It is too soon to talk the politics of gun control,” executive producer for weekends David Clark writes in an email that insiders say has been taken wildly out of context. — Much was being made online on Monday …

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Rhonda Roland Shearer / iMediaEthics:

CJR Reporter Lying, Exploiting a Source? What's happening at Columbia Journalism Review? — Bruce Porter, a retired Columbia University journalism professor and the author of the book-turned-movie Blow, decided in 2011 that he would find Marcy, the then-teen source he betrayed …

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Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke / The New York Observer: Trouble at The Columbia Journalism Review?

Christine Haughney / Media Decoder:

Vice Purchases i-D, the British Style Magazine — Vice, the multimedia company known for its in-your-face journalistic style, is expanding into fashion coverage by buying the British style publication i-D magazine. — Vice executives said that fashion was a topic that complemented their existing coverage …

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

N.Y. Times getting another price hike — The New York Times subscription rate will increase again next month, a spokesperson at the paper tells POLITICO. — As of January 2013, an annual subscription to the Grey Lady will cost $660.40 a year ($12.70 a week) in the greater New York City area and $837.20 …

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

BBC to publish findings on Newsnight's Jimmy Savile report on Wednesday — Corporation readies Pollard report into handling of Newsnight investigation into child abuse by Jim'll Fix It presenter — The BBC is planning to publish on Wednesday the much-anticipated Pollard report into the handling …

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Josh Halliday / Guardian:
BBC and ITV apologise to Lord McAlpine for sex abuse allegations

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Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Fox's bloody t-shirt: Newtown images shows risks of automated ads — Newspapers are careful about where their ads appear. They make sure, for instance, that flight specials don't appear beside plane crash articles or that Taco Bell coupons aren't printed beside food-poisoning stories.

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Jim Romenesko:

Robin Fields and Eric Umansky Promoted at ProPublica — Robin Fields has been promoted to managing editor at ProPublica, succeeding Stephen Engelberg, who becomes editor-in-chief. He replaces Paul Steiger, who becomes executive chairman. — Umansky and Fields

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

Instagram changes terms of service, but will pro photographers flee anyway? — Instagram's new terms of service are causing widespreading out-freaking across the Internet. The photo-sharing service might not need to worry about losing food-snapping schmoes, John Paul Titlow writes …

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Amy Chozick / Media Decoder:

New Leader for Pearson Unit That Includes Financial Times — John Ridding will take over as chief executive of the FT Group, a subsidiary of Pearson that includes The Financial Times and half of The Economist, the company said Tuesday. Mr. Ridding, who has served as chief executive …

Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:

Nielsen Buys Arbitron, Radio Ratings Service, In $1.3 Billion Deal — The digital revolution is blurring the lines between different mediums to the point that having one company that monitors TV viewership and another that measures radio audiences doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

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Jim Romenesko:

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