Mediagazer: Pearson agrees $75 million settlement in U.S. eBook pricing case (Kate Holton/Reuters)

11:05 AM ET, May 22, 2013

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In AP, Rosen investigations, government makes criminals of reporters — There are various reasons you might not care about the Obama administration's spying on journalist James Rosen and labeling him a “co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor” in an espionage case.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:

DOJ: We haven't ‘compromised’ Sharyl Attkisson's computers — The Dept. of Justice says it has never “compromised” computers belonging to Sharyl Attkisson, the CBS News investigative reporter who on Tuesday said that her personal and work computers were under investigation after intrusions by an unspecified entity.

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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Bret Baier: Justice Department targeted James Rosen's parents as well

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Time.com Is on a Hiring Spree — Here's a story you might not expect to come out of Time Inc.: Time.com is on a hiring binge. Two months after several higher-ups left in a round of cost-cutting, the site is hiring some 30 staffers, roughly a 50 percent increase, in preparation for a big relaunch in early fall.

Erik Maza / WWD:

Edward Felsenthal Helming Relaunch of Time.com — BEAUTY OF THE BEAST: When Web sites undergo a redesign, editors will inevitably look toward any number of models. Time.com, it seems, is looking at The Daily Beast. — Edward Felsenthal, Tina Brown's former deputy at the Beast …

Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

BuzzFeed business news wants to be scoops — BuzzFeed's business news strategy is to focus on breaking news but focusing on the areas where it believes it can cover the news better than others, said its business editor in an interview on Tuesday. — “Business news is scoops,” said Peter Lauria.

Cody Brown / Medium:

The New York Times Told Me to Take This Down — It's been five months since the New York Times dropped their mammoth digital story “Snow Fall,” and some people still talk about it as if it came out last week. At a conference recently, the editor-in-chief of the Times said that “Snow Fall” has become a verb inside the newsroom.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

NYT: Scroll Kit developer ‘is bragging’ about copyright infringement — Cody Brown received a takedown request from The New York Times' legal department after he posted a video showing how to replicate the “Snow Fall” experience using his tool Scroll Kit. — After he answered that request …

Anthony De Rosa / Soup:

Stop matching — Matching is an institutional problem deeply rooted within many mainstream newsrooms. To paraphrase myself from this article: Sometimes it's a business strategy: ignore you competition, don't let your readers know they exist, pretend they didn't beat you.

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John Plunkett / Guardian:

BBC may charge Sky for content as retransmission fee row escalates — BSkyB charges public service broadcasters £10m a year, with corporation saying ‘money is flowing in the wrong direction’ — The BBC has raised the stakes in its row with BSkyB over retransmission fees …

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Lauren Indvik / Mashable:

‘Wired’ Completely Overhauls Print Magazine — Wired is debuting a new look for its June issue, which hits newsstands Tuesday. The magazine has been completely made over by Scott Dadich, who before being named editor-in-chief last November worked as creative director of Wired from 2006 to 2010.

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Lucia Moses / Adweek:

The New York Times Reinvents the Boring Banner Ad — An obscure piece on The New York Times' website about Picasso repurposing his canvases by painting over older, abandoned projects was fascinating, at least insofar as stories about master artists and their recycling habits go.

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Kate Holton / Reuters:

Pearson agrees $75 million settlement in U.S. eBook pricing case — (Reuters) - Publisher Pearson said on Wednesday it would pay $75 million in consumer damages plus cost and fees as part of a deal with the United States to settle anti-trust claims relating to eBook pricing for its Penguin division.

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