FIRST CUTS: WikiLeaks e-book pulled from Amazon; News apps on the rise

Joe Pompeo
·Media Reporter

Here's our list of headlines that should be on your morning media menu:

• Heinz Duthel has pulled from the Amazon store his WikiLeaks e-book containing the leaked diplomatic cables. (AllThingsD/Media Memo)

• Deborah Needleman is staffing up at the Wall Street Journal. (Women's Wear Daily/Memo Pad)

• Here's the Barbara Walters-Sarah Palin interview. (Mediaite)

• And here's the Bill O'Reilly-Barbara Walters interview. (Mediaite)

• Joao Silva, a New York Times freelance war photographer "badly injured by a landmine in Afghanistan" in October, has been hired by the paper full-time. (New York Times/On the Ground)

• Third-party news apps are on the rise. (Wall Street Journal)

• Meanwhile, CNBC's new iPad app is No. 1 in the App Store. (Talking Biz News)

• A new study shows that "more than half ... of print newspaper subscribers who devote about an hour a day reading news on the [iPad] are 'very likely' to cancel their print subscriptions within six months." (paidContent)

• The Washington Post Style Section's Tumblr swats back at Chris Matthews. (Politico/On Media)