Mediagazer: Computer Weekly editor Bryan Glick on digital publishing, growing revenue and life after print (Bryan Glick/TheMediaBriefing)

7:50 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.

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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 …

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Michael Depp / NetNewsCheck Latest:

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Ryan Chittum / CJR:

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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.

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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

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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.

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 …

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Robert Patrick / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

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Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

The Wall Street Journal Signs Up for Apple's Subscription Service — It took a while, but they're in: The Wall Street Journal is now selling digital subscriptions via Apple's “Newsstand” service. — That means Dow Jones' business newspaper has joined thousands of other magazines and newspapers …

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Pamela McClintock / Hollywood Reporter:

Hollywood's January Violence Spree: Half of Films Show Guns Amid NRA Criticism — The entertainment industry is bracing for an outcry about violence in movies following the Newtown, Conn., school shooting; the NRA is already blaming film, TV and video games for portraying life as a “joke.”

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