links for 2007-06-09

Despite the innocence of the photographers, the ‘Diana effect’ which dampens criticism, scrutiny and a free exchange of ideas in the name of protecting privacy and sensibilities was starting to dominate our culture back then and continues to haunt it

Now this FOI amendment is one we should support: This one, from Lib Dem Tom Brake, would introduce time limits on public interest tests and scrap the ministerial veto.

“If there’s one thing that this job has taught me, it is that it’s harder to teach many journalists to be good bloggers than it is a random member of the public. They have too much to unlearn first, too many long-established mindsets to let go of.”

Richard Sambrook: “There are over 10,000 members of the BBC [Facebook] group (for which you have to have a bbc email) alone. That’s about half the entire organsiation.”

Alfred Hermida has written a paper on the ethical dilemnas that Facebook and ‘digital doorstepping’ poses for journalists.

A Jason Fry article in the Wall Street Journal highlights that digital immigrants’ worries about young people’s self-exposure on social media sites is a case of “modernist fears of postmodern behaviour”.

“PRWeek writes about the varying public relations strategies being used by the players in the bidding for Dow Jones.”

Steve Boriss: “’Citizen journalist’ implies that the truly legitimate position is ‘journalist’ with the adjective ‘citizen’ used as a qualifier to diminish status, as in Vice President”

WSJ interview with Rupert Murdoch, about the Dow Jones acquisition but also covering Google, MySpace and Facebook.