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

5:55 AM ET, March 14, 2012

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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 …

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Associated Press:

Encyclopaedia Britannica to stop publishing print editions, will continue digital versions — CHICAGO — Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. said Tuesday that it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time since the sets were originally published more than 200 years ago.

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Reuters:

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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.

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Rachel McAthy / journalism.co.uk:
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Kurt Opsahl / Electronic Frontier Foundation:

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Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:

Paper Con Man Ravages the Internet — A response to Harper's publisher John MacArthur's lengthy screed against the enterprise of online journalism — This is the Internet, basically, according to Harper's publisher. flickr/wheatfields. — Long before I wrote stories for magazines, I read a magazine called Harper's.

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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

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Stefanie Botelho / Folio:

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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.

Roy Greenslade / Guardian:

Hacking book: how we fooled tabloids into running false celebrity stories — This extract from The phone hacking scandal: journalism on trial* is taken from a chapter written by Chris Atkins, director of a film that showed how tabloid journalists could be fooled into accepting false stories.

Jeremy Scahill / The Nation:

Why Is President Obama Keeping a Journalist in Prison in Yemen? — On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of the call …

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