links for 2006-12-08

Tim Holmes: “If Radio Times can outsource its listings to PA in Yorkshire, why not anywhere else in the world?”

A journalism student asks Cary Tennis of Salon.com whether his shyness will get in the way of a successful journalism career.

Paul Bradshaw announces the Citizen Journalism 2007 conference. Speakers are Michael Hill of Trinity Mirror, blogger Tom Reynolds and BBC Interactivity Editor Vicky Taylor.

Whoa. Alexa in actually accurate shock.

The Independent has done the seemingly impossible: obtained salary data out of the BBC using the Freedom of Information Act.

Robin Hamman: “Taking good notes is vital for ensuring not just accurate recall of details, but can be useful if questions are ever asked about the validity of a report. Live blogging from a White House press conference takes that one step further by prov

New Yorker web editor Blake Eksin and dep ed Pamela McCarthy are working on revamping the magazine’s web site. Among the rumoured ideas: a group blog, subject to the New Yorkers famous fact-checkers.

Brant Houston: “I think journalists surviving in the 21st century are going to have to get even better at dealing with tremendous amounts of information … There were only a few practitioners of database analysis in the 1970s … now you’ve got easily