links for 2007-04-13

A magazine “for aspiring new media titans”.

“Beginning in September, Nielsen will release national ratings for television viewing outside the home in places like bars, hotels, gyms and offices.”

Paul Bradshaw and a team of his students are blogging the NUj centenary conference in Birmingham — with a blog, a wiki and a Flickr account.

The Economist’s innovation team, Project Red Stripe, has narrowed its list of potential projects to a very interesting shortlist.

Mac Slocum: “Some journalism teachers … overestimate the Web skills of the current generation. We mistake technological comfort with research expertise. … [T]here’s little transferable skill between a well-managed MySpace profile and online research.”

Mark Glaser: Journalism students are being tought to follow the same old career path (start on a small local paper and work towards bigger ones). “Nowhere do students get the inkling that the metro paper might not exist by the time they get there”.

“Blogging success is tied to traffic success — and that and the only way to generate traffic is to post all the time.”

Mac Slocum: “Communities don’t magically form. They require enormous amount of time, effort and leadership.”

“CBS News said yesterday it planned to install a new level of editorial oversight to its Web site since revelations that the CBS anchor Katie Couric read a plagiarized commentary on the site last week.”

David Blum of the New York Sun has named the producer fired in the CBS plagiarism incident. Craig Silverman explains why journalists insist on naming names in cases of plagiarism. (Ahem: “Even student newspapers do it.”)

Somehow missed this: the top US newspaper sites, based on Nielson/Netratings data. NY Times is top with a unique audience of 12,960,000 users and 455,527,000 pvs.in February.

Stuart Hughes has posted a video of today’s statement by the parents of kidnapped BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. He says the joint BBC, Sky, CNN and Al Jazeera” programme shows how far the industry has come in recent years on issues of journalist safety

The Economist quotes Josh Wolf: “The whole issue of whether or not I am a journalist is irrelevant: the first amendment was written to protect pamphleteers … This was my entry into the world of journalism … and a hell of an entry it was.”
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A new WAN web site in support of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May highlights how anti-terrorist surviellance often has been used to “stifle debate and the free flow of information about political decisions” or have adversely affected press freedom.

A US secondary school journalism teacher could lose her job because she allowed a student to write an editorial in a school newspaper advocating tolerance for homosexuals.

“Publications are pulling the plug on their print editions as they cultivate rapidly growing online revenue options”

“The British press, the worst in the west, demoralises the national psyche. It makes people miserable. It raises false fears. It proclaims that nothing works, everything gets worse, and it urges distrust of any public official or politician.”

Craig Laycock first video blog post is about the debate about blogging that I inadvertantly caused at the University of Central Lancashire’s journalism department.