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8:55 AM ET, December 23, 2012

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Margaret Sullivan / New York Times:
Getting It First or Getting It Right?  —  THE media critic Jack Shafer wrote recently that, in the age of Twitter, the public had better get used to a new fact of life: News stories, especially the early reports of breaking news events, are very likely to be inaccurate.
Marianne McCarthy / MediaShift:
Can You Still Spot.us?  Crowdfunding Pioneer Slumps Under APM  —  Crowdfunding has skyrocketed in the past couple of years as entrepreneurs bypass traditional keepers of the purse and instead appeal to individual donors to help get their projects off the ground — and journalists have taken notice.
Bryan Glick / TheMediaBriefing:
Computer Weekly editor Bryan Glick on digital publishing, growing revenue and life after print  —  announced the end of its print edition in April 2011, plenty of people mistakenly associated “shutting print” with “shutting down”.  The reaction was symptomatic of a lingering perception …
Thanks:@rorybrown
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
4 Out of 10 Americans Have Connected Internet to TV  —  Still waiting for the Internet and TV to converge?  It may have already happened.  —  Four out of 10 Americans have connected their TV to the Internet, according to a new Forrester study.  If you're just talking about the whippersnappers …
Discussion: Fast Company
Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:
San Diego Newspaper Makes $3M ‘TV’ Play  —  Daily newspaper U-T San Diego is making an ambitious move into the video space with an all-news TV station — streaming online and running on cable — that will soon run original programming 24-hours per day.  The newspaper is hoping its $3 million investment …
Ryan Chittum / CJR:
The Louisiana newspaper war  —  The Advocate picks up 23,500 readers in less than three months in New Orleans  —  The Baton Rouge Advocate is making a run at a weakened Times-Picayune in New Orleans.  —  The paper, which started a daily New Orleans edition in October as the Newhouse family slashed …
Suw Charman-Anderson / Forbes:
Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption  —  Amazon, the great disintermediator that put a spanner — in fact, a set of 25 spanners in a handy case, yours for just $9.99 — in the businesses of many a retailer, is going to face exactly the same fate if it doesn't start to address its weaknesses soon, particularly in the area of publishing.
Discussion: @janefriedman and @tcarmody
Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Snow Fall: Finally an articulation for the digerati of what a big, expensive newsroom can do  —  The Web is buzzing about the New York Times' epic , , ... let's just say multimedia extravaganza, “Snow Fall,” today.  Those of us who like to get paid well to do good work- wherever …
Matt Waite / Nieman Journalism Lab:
The year responsive design starts to get weird  —  Over the past year, the idea of responsive web design has taken hold in a growing number of newsrooms.  The Boston Globe launched a paywalled version of the Globe as a responsive experience at the end of 2011.
Robert Patrick / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Talk radio host Dana Loesch files suit in St. Louis against Breitbart.com  —  Conservative talk radio host and commentator Dana Loesch sued the owner of the conservative website Breitbart.com Friday, claiming that although her relationship with the news and opinion aggregating website had gone …
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Medium Becomes A More Full-Featured Writing Platform, Adds Stats And Explains Lack Of Commenting  —  We've told you a bit about the latest writing and blogging platform from Ev Williams' new product, Medium, and the team has been incrementally adding things, and talent, to the service to make it a full-featured interactive service.
Discussion: @ksablan
Sam Hananel / Associated Press:
Appeals court sides with newspaper in labor fight  —  WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court on Tuesday sided with the publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press in a long-running labor dispute between the newspaper and reporters who were fired after they complained about its editorial practices.
Discussion: LA Observed and Politico
 
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
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