links for 2006-11-22

There will be no formal consulation on proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Act fees regime. The Campaign for FOI is encouraging people to write directly to Lord Falconer.

Google has launched some new webmaster tools that allow publishers whose sites are included in Google News to define which articles appear in the aggregator.

… more details of the new Google News webmaster tools.

Rachel Sterne looks at the various models that citizen journalism projects have used to pay their contributors.

Tom Grubisich has updated his 2005 OJR article which argued that hyperlocal citizen journalism initiatives had until then failed to live up to their promise. What has happened 12 months later?

The Editors Weblog interviews Guardian foreign editor Harriet Sherwood.

Bloggers have been responding to the New York Times gushing story about the 21-year-old blogger behind the US television news and gossip site TVNewser. One says he wouldn’t have a chance to execute something similar at (ahem) a traditional trade magazine.