links for 2007-06-03

Simon Jones: “I am leaving The Chronicle. After 18 months at the helm, I’ve decided to join the world of PR as head of communications at a London authority.”

Kevin Maguire: “Spinmeister Alastair Campbell denied keeping a diary when I asked if he did in 1998, yet now admits he wrote one every day since he started working for Tony Blair in 1994. No change there then!”

“You don’t need millions of dollars or HD cameras or years of training to make it happen; all you need is the right frame of mind.”

Adam Tinworth responds to Prof. Joe Foote’s suggestion that journalists’ accessing Facebook pages is no different from looking up a phone number in the telephone book.

Scottish Info Commissioner: “Very few of the cases across my desk could be described as ‘strange’ – the overwhelming majority come from people simply attempting to address the very real issues that affect their lives.”