Mediagazer: Billboard Gets Digital Update (Ethan Smith/Wall Street Journal)

11:20 AM ET, March 14, 2012

Top News:

Julie Bosman / Media Decoder:

After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses — After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. — Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered sets of reference books that were once sold door to door by a fleet of traveling salesmen and displayed …

Jim Romenesko:

A former Britannica editor on the print edition's demise — After reading the news about Encyclopaedia Britannica ending its print edition after 244 years, I asked former Britannica.com editor Charlie Madigan if he wanted to share his thoughts with Romenesko readers.

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, Britannica Blog and Gawker

Associated Press:
Encyclopaedia Britannica to stop publishing print editions, will continue digital versions

Discussion: Mashable!

Press Gazette:

Guardian crime reporter warns of police ‘over-reaction’ — Journalists cannot hold the police to account if they only take information from forces' official channels, a senior crime correspondent told the Leveson Inquiry today. — Sandra Laville, of the Guardian, warned that there has been an …

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Police release six arrested by Operation Weeting on bail — All six people arrested by Operation Weeting on Tuesday, reported to include Rebekah Brooks and her husband, have now been released on bail — Metropolitan police said all six have been bailed ‘to return pending further inquiries’ in April

Discussion: Huffington Post UK, Journalism.co.uk, journalism.co.uk and Telegraph

Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:

Murdoch expresses regret over hacking — Former News International chairman restates his innocence and expresses ‘deep regret’ over the phone hacking scandal — James Murdoch has written to the parliamentary select committee investigating phone hacking to express his “deep regret” over the scandal and restating his innocence.

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Media Decoder, Financial Times and Free Press

Christopher Hope / Telegraph: Horsegate: Questions about whether Rebekah Brooks, not Charlie, is David Cameron's real friend

Guardian:
Rebekah Brooks and husband arrested in new twist in phone-hacking inquiry

Discussion: Reuters, Associated Press, Gawker, Vanity Fair, New York Times, @skymartinbrunt, Guardian and @skymartinbrunt

Dan Sabbagh / Guardian: Phone hacking: Rupert Murdoch says Sun investigation is almost over

Josh Halliday / Guardian:
Private investigators posed as journalists for NoW, says lawyer

Discussion: @skymartinbrunt and The Independent

Greg Sandoval / CNET:

No injunctions in sight, so Aereo lives — The Web streaming service that delivers over-the-air TV broadcasts went live today though ABC, CBS, NBC and other networks sued to try and stop the launch. — New Yorkers can watch live broadcast TV via the Web starting today.

Ben Popper / VentureBeat:

As legal battle with TV networks escalates, Aereo launches in New York. We tested the service. It rocks — I'm sitting in my office (by which I mean my kitchen) watching Rachel Ray on my iPad and Kathy Lee on my laptop. These aren't clips or day or old episodes.

Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:

Billboard Gets Digital Update — Trade Magazine's Hot 100 List Will Now Include Data From Music Services Like Spotify, Rdio — Billboard magazine's Hot 100 songs chart is getting a digital makeover, though readers might not notice much of a difference when the weekly list is released on Wednesday.

Discussion: paidContent:UK, Pocket-lint and hypebot

Rick Edmonds / Poynter:

NewsRight lands its first licensing deal — Two months after opening for business, NewsRight, the news licensing agency created by the Associated Press and 28 other news organizations, has its first client. — It's not Huffington Post or Google News or Flipboard.

Kurt Opsahl / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Court Declares Newspaper Excerpt on Online Forum is a Non-Infringing Fair Use — Late Friday, the federal district court in Nevada issued a declaratory judgment that makes is harder for copyright holders to file lawsuits over excerpts of material and burden online forums and their users with nuisance lawsuits.

Discussion: Wired and Righthaven Victims

Mark Sweney / Guardian:

BSkyB probe to include Netflix and LoveFilm — Competition Commission extends deadline for final report until July to to take into account changes in the movie market — BSkyB's battle to retain its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV has been given a potential boost …

Discussion: Deadline.com, paidContent, The Next Web and MCV: Home Stream

Reuters:

BBC suffers cyber-attack following Iran campaign — (Reuters) - The BBC has suffered a sophisticated cyber-attack following a campaign by Iranian authorities against its Persian service, director-general Mark Thompson said on Wednesday. — Thompson also reported attempts to jam satellite feeds …

Discussion: Agence France Presse and Gizmodo

Ken Ellingwood / Los Angeles Times:

Mexican lawmakers back broader protections for journalists — REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY — Attacking or intimidating journalists in Mexico would become a federal crime under a constitutional reform approved Tuesday by Mexican lawmakers. — The measure, approved unanimously by the Senate …

Discussion: Guardian, Committee to Protect … and WebProNews

Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

Syrian citizen journalists win Netizen prize — The media centre of the Local Coordinating Committees of Syria was recognised for working to ‘keep the world abreast of the violence wracking the country’ — Anti-government protests in the besieged city of Homs — Copyright: by FreedomHouse on Flickr.

Discussion: European Public Policy Blog, Jon Slattery and Journalism.co.uk