links for 2007-01-30

Ian Hargreaves: “TV channel news sites are the main source of online news.” Errrrr…

Maurice Frankel says FOI changes will save the Government just £12m. “The National Audit Office says the Government could save £660 million by more careful purchasing of office supplies.”

“After torrents of reader complaints, two major papers said last week that they would restore some of their [printed share price] stings.”

Andrew Grant-Adamson: “At last the Independent has done the decent thing and hidden its blogs.”

Jack Shafer: “A well-lawyered newspaper distinguishes itself by the way it writes around something.”

The San Francisco Chronicle is turning its voicemails of readers’ complaints into podcasts — with some hilarious results.

The Sunday Times reported that Shiny Media have secured US$4.5m worth of funding from Bright Station Ventures who now take a 50% stake in the company.

Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is supposed to be the guardian of the Freedom of Information Act. But Information Tribunal chairman John Angel is overturning many of Thomas’s decisions.

“The Wii News Channel, courtesy the Associated Press. It’s fast; it’s flashy; it’s not without its flaws (I’ll get to this later); and newspapers should definitely take notice.”

Journalists and journalism education need to adapt to new working realities, especially in international news.Rebecca Mackinnon has five ideas about what this means in practice.

One teacher says: “Students do not relate to newspapers at all, any more than they would to vinyl records.”

Apple has paid the defendants US$ 700,000 in legal fees after losing an appeal in the AppleInsider blogger source-protection case.