links for 2007-08-09

“We’ll be trying out a mechanism for publishing comments from a special subset of readers: those people or organizations who were actual participants in the story in question.”

A great post about outsourcing at newspapers.

“Citing anonymous sources, the New York Post has reported that rival Manhattan paper The New York Times is planning to do away with TimesSelect, the subscription-only content on its NYTimes.com Web site.”

The New York Times has recruited Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner as a blogger.

“Rather than encouraging an open discussion on news topics, Google is perpetuating a closed debate between newsmakers and journalists. And they’re using a clunky, slow medium (email) to do it.”

Ridding: “The competition is not binary any more,” he says. “There has been an explosion of new channels, resulting in a much broader competitive set. In all this, the WSJ has circled its wagons around the US while we are focused globally.”

Editorial director at Trinity Mirror regionals, Neil Benson, has hinted that the company may be considering further “reverse publishing” products after success in Teesside.

‘In an era where most media is disposable, great photojournalism has longevity,” writes Getty’s managing editor of news, Hugh Pinney.

Danny Sanchez: “Smashing Magazine has produced an excellent list of some of the best data visualization examples on the Web today … Examine each of these visualizations closely because you’re looking at the first step in the future of your news site

Danny Sullivan gets some answers on Google News’ new comment features. Reporters will be able to comment on their own stories. Google confirms the identity of each participant individually.