links for 2007-03-13

The 2007 ‘annual report’ on US journalism by the the Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Charlie Beckett of POLIS is spot on, as usual. Reporting risk is something journalism as a whole is very bad at, even if individual journalists get it.

Jeff Jarvis visits the Telegraph’s Victoria hubland — and seem to have allowed him to take pictures. Video, even.

“Scotland’s first Polish newspaper, which rolled off the presses last week, has become a story itself after a fierce row erupted over allegations of political bias and misuse of public funds.”

“Google may have finally built what years of complaining by media-buying agencies couldn’t: a viable, scalable, e-business approach to buying local media.”

The Economist’s Project Red Stripe gets Slashdotted: “we received 140 submissions over the weekend. Even more surprisingly, only about 20 of these are obviously junk; most of the other 120 are well thought out.”

The Economist’s cover story is “China’s next revolution.” This is the way forward, says Juan Giner: “Print media are going to produce more and more “next” stories. Our readers want more. Yesterday or last week news is not enough.”

“the privacy of Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton is under threat from a new phenomenon: “citizen journalism”. Members of the public have realised that a single photograph of the couple taken on a mobile phone or a discreet digital camera c

Paul Linford: “here’s a list of some of the questions I’d like answered, some of them of purely personal interest, others of broader significance to the body politic.”

“To longtime CBS broadcaster Dan Rather, American journalism in recent years “has in some ways lost its guts.””

Sean Ammirati reports Matt Mullenweg’s SXSW presentation on “scaling your community”

Charles Arthur looks at ProBlogger’s list of 34 reasons readers unsubscribe from RSS feeds — and prods me into switching to full-text feeds.