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Medium, Germany's journalism trade mag, interviews Die Welt editor Christoph Keese, on his web first experiment.

Six Apart Movable Type News: Buckinghamshire Advertiser: It's Not Just A Blog

"[I]f you’re using a tool like Movable Type, which is platform designed for blogging, but it’s being used as a general content management system, is the output still a blog? Our answer: Who cares?"

MediaPaL@LSE: PCC off the hook? Middleton pulls complaint

The London School of Economics's great new media policy and regulation blog looks at the implications of the Kate Middleton privacy debate for small web-only publishers. Would tighter regulation just move gossip online?

Lost Remote: Fired journalists fire up their own news site

Eight reporters fired from the Santa Barbara News-Press have started up a rival local news site. Let's hope they have eight ad sales execs working with them.

Poynter Online: The Best of Multimedia Photojournalism: The Era of the Ear

"Keith Jenkins and the judges of the Best of Photojournalism's Best of the Web contest discuss audio slideshows, the ethics of using certain kinds of audio and the future of online video."

Amateur Photographer: Police photo guidelines to go nationwide news

"Guidelines concerning police treatment of photojournalists covering news events are to be extended nationwide"

allmediascotland : Budget Slash at Herald Newspapers

"Dozens of staff at The Herald, Sunday Herald and Evening Times newspapers face the axe following a budget cut announcement yesterday by publishers, Newsquest."

Random Mumblings: Twitter is a bad, bad thing

Jack Lail on Twitter: "Yeah, a lot of it is ... banal ... but there are voices in Twitter that are morphing their messages into more interesting 'twits' or 'tweets.' A lot of these are coming from people already writing smart, engaging blogs so it's not t

CNET News.com: Rewriting ethics rules for the new media

Are the ethics of having conflicts of interest different for online journalists?

WebProNews: Google Faces Pressure Over Censorship

New York City's powerful pension funds own 486,617 shares of Google stock, and will use their position to get Google shareholders "to consider the company's ongoing role in countries that routinely censor the Internet."

Editor & Publisher: How to Become the 'King' of Hyper-Local News

Steve Outing: "My hometown newspaper seldom has news about the elementary school that my ... daughter goes to. But a hyper-local ... approach would mean that the newspaper website taps everyone outside ... who [is] writing anything about the school."

CNET News.com: Blogger Congdon slams critics in quirky video

"Amanda Congdon, a well-known video blogger, answers her critics in a rambling video posted on her site that can only be described as odd."

Knowledge@Wharton: Web vs. Print: Online Successes at One Newspaper Raise More Questions Than They Answer

"Washingtonpost.com ... is an enthusiastic tail on a very large dog. The online operation currently generates 14.5% of total ad revenue."

BusinessWeek: Don't Quit Your Day Job, Podcasters

"A lack of standards for placing podcast ads or measuring audiences has hobbled ad spending, which only hit $80 million last year."

Talking Biz News: Business 2.0 bloggers get first checks

Writers at Business 2.0 magazine have received their first bonuses based on the traffic generated by their blogs over the last quarter. Some recived "several thousand" dollars. Others received less than $100 and a suggestion to change their blog's topic.

Islington Tribune: Stranger danger

A primary school in my neighbourhood is teaching chatroom safety. Deputy headteacher Mathew Kleiner-Mann: "The children can quickly grasp that there are people pretending to be something that they are not, and that this can be dangerous.”

European Journalism Observatory: Blogs and journalism: the age of complementarities (abstract)

Marco Faré and Francesco Uboldi of the Faculty of Communication Sciences at the Università della Svizzera Italiana look at the interaction between blogs and journalism.

AGORAVOX : Why Newspaper Blogs Don't Work

Mark Evans: "most reporters writing blogs are doing so because they have to do it; not because they want to do it. As a result, these blogs lack passion and enthusiasm - two critical elements for successful blogs."

Neil Sanderson: Do online readers really read more?

"rather than saying that online readers read more, Poynter is now saying they read as thoroughly as in print. That’s a big difference."

CNET News.com: Agence France-Presse, Google settle copyright dispute

"News agency Agence France-Presse has entered into a licensing deal with Google, ending the dispute between the two over AFP's articles appearing on Google News."

Seeking Alpha: Newspapers' Approach To Classifieds vs. Craigslist's

Scott Karp on Cragslist: "Sex-related content has lead every technological revolution in media. Why should classifieds be any different?" (Great intro, but the payoff is in the last paragraph!)

Bad Science: Doctors behind the headlines

Ben Goldacre: "many media stories—especially the dramatic and misleading ones—are based on unpublished research, conference presentations, briefings by “mavericks,” or press releases, all of which are tricky primary sources to track down, and whic

NHS National Library for Health: Hitting the Headlines

RSS feed for a service countering cases of dodgy medical journalism.

Newspaper Innovation: New York’s getting cheaper

"The New York Post’s weekday subscription price has recently dropped to $13 a year, meaning that the paper is home delivered for 5 cents a day."

A Whole Lotta Nothing: Flickr: Photos from oregonianphoto

The Portland Oregonian is posting all its photographs on Flickr. But is it a violation of the Terms of Service?

The New Republic: Bet you can't report this story--the case against citizen journalism

Carolyn O'Hara on Assignment Zero: "In believing that Assignment Zero can prevent its reporting from being hijacked by warring groups that want their vision of the world reinforced, is Rosen putting way too much faith in the wisdom of his crowd?"

Jason Calacanis: Sam Zell is going to lose billions on newspapers and the Washington Post has no idea what they're talking about.

"If you want to point out why newspapers are failing look at: ... huge overhead ... overpaid management ... slow pace of innovation ... inability to sell online advertising ... inability to evolve their one way medium into a two way medium ... craigslist"

currybetdotnet: The ten things most likely to be on The Daily Express front page

Martin Belam tries to solve the riddle "What is the Daily Express actually for?" with a content analysis of Express front pages. Princess Diana is only the fifth most-common splash.

The Register: Godless North Korean commies ate my monster rabbits

The Register goes for best bunny-related Easter headline of the year...

Toronto Star: Rumours of our demise . . .

"To be forcefully relevant again, newspapers need to rediscover a point of view even at the risk of alienating readers, to champion selected causes, to develop unsurpassed proficiency in coverage of niche topics ... and ... to adopt 'hyperlocalism'."

FT.com: Guardian looks to a mini format in search for youth

"Dummy editions of two titles - Guardian Mini and NB - have been shown to focus groups in recent weeks ... [they are] designed to appeal to 18- to 34-year-old readers."

Donna Bogatin: Google News is NOT newspaper driven: Zell vs. Schmidt

There are no ads in Google News, "but Google News headlines are returned in Google SERPS, however, before the 'organic' results and high-priced Google AdWords ARE shown on such Google pages where newspaper copyright content is featured."

Guardian: The digested read: Don't You Know Who I Am? by Piers Morgan

John Crace: "April 2005: Matthew Freud rings to suggest we buy the UK Press Gazette. "With you as editor," he laughs, "we can run it into the ground in next to no time."

Baltimore Sun: What Newspapers Need Is A Better Business Model

Jay Hancock: "Newspapers run AP as a collective, but the interests of AP and its members have never been further apart."

paidContent.org: Le Monde To Break Even Or Better Thanks To Web Revenue

"France’s Le Monde Group expects to break even or make a profit this year thanks to digital revenue", online director Bruno Patino told AP.

Invisible Inkling: Basic training: The right tool for the right desk

Ryan Sholin looks at the skills that newsroom photographers, graphics artists and reporters need to learn.

newsobserver.com: Raising the level of online conversation

Ted Vaden of the News & Observer in North Carolina wonders why his paper expects letter-writers to confirm their identity, but allows anonymous comments online.

Blogging4Business: Twitter: the new press release vehicle?

Robert Andrews finds another use for Twitter: "Earthlink has now experimented with the site as a press release delivery mechanism."

OUT-LAW.COM: FOI restrictions unnecessary, says Information Commissioner

"The Government would not need to limit the scope of the FOIA if public authorities used existing rules properly, the Information Commissioner's Office has said."

Heather Hopkins, Hitwise UK: MySpace UK Visitors Among Most Likely Not to Vote

"[S]hould UK prime ministerial hopefuls embark on similar "conversations" through the likes of YouTube and MySpace as the US presidential candidates?"

Journalism.co.uk: Get job alerts by Twitter

More useful stuff on Twitter - Journalism.co.uk trials job alerts.

Innovations in Newspapers: The New York Tiems "Zoo" Newsroom

Juan Giner is not impressed with the New York Times' new cubicle-world newroom: "The architect must be a genius, but the interior designers must be fired."

Chris Doidge's Blog: NY Times outdoing the broadcasters at their own game?

"In a piece of video-journalism entitled ‘Anatomy of a Firefight’ C.J. Chivers of the New York Times shows up the typical 2007 television news bulletin for what it is: Froth."

New York Times: Is It Better to Buy or Rent?

A very impressive interactive infographic from the New York Times.

CNET News.com: Principal sues ex-students over MySpace profiles

"A Pennsylvania school principal has filed a lawsuit against four former students, claiming they falsely portrayed him as a pot smoker, beer guzzler and pornography love" ... on MySpace.

: Temple Of Spam/Church of Football » Blog Archive » I hereby quit!

Louise Steggals on Deadline: "I am going to immerse myself in political journalism from hereon in. I want nothing to do with the gossip side, the two-faced stuff makes me nauseous."

Editor & Publisher: Lauren Rich Fine to Leave Merrill Lynch

Veteran newspaper analyst Lauren Rich Fine is retiring from Merrill Lynch

: Blogger & Podcaster

A magazine "for aspiring new media titans".

New York Times: Nielsen to Get Off Sofa, Into Bars and Gyms

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

Project Red Stripe: Fire away

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

E-Media Tidbits: Researcher/Guide: Online Journalism Skills I Wish I'd Learned in School, Part 1

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."

MediaShift: Journalism Education Stuck in Same Oldthink Mode as Big Media

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".

E-Media Tidbits: Traffic Generator: Online Journalism Skills I Wish I'd Learned in School, Part 2

"Blogging success is tied to traffic success -- and that and the only way to generate traffic is to post all the time."

E-Media Tidbits: Community Leader: Online Journalism Skills I Wish I'd Learned in School, Part 3

Mac Slocum: "Communities don't magically form. They require enormous amount of time, effort and leadership."

New York Times: After Couric Incident, CBS News to Scrutinize Its Web Content

"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."

Regret the Error: NY Sun names fired CBS producer; why naming her is important

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.")

Editor & Publisher: NYTimes.com Most Popular Newspaper Site -- Here Is Top 30

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.

: Beyond Northern Iraq

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

Economist.com: Protecting sources | Go to jail

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.” "

MediaPaL@LSE: Press Under Surveillance

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.

Fort Wayne News-Sentinel: Woodlan teacher’s hearing April 28

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.

Chicago Tribune: Fertile ground for magazines

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

Polly Toynbee: Our press, the worst in the west, demoralises us all

"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."

: YouTube - Hack Attack vLog #001

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.

Google Video: Open House with Daily Telegraph bloggers

The Telegraph's Shane Richmond responds to a question about how blogging changes the way journalists relate to their audience

AOP: AOP names JICIMS representatives

"Senior research and commercial executives from the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Guardian Newspapers have agreed to represent the interests of AOP members on the Steering Committee of the JICIMS."

Online Journalism Blog: NUJ ADM: union to investigate web profits

The NUJ has voted to investigate news organisations' online profits, in order to campaign “for the right of media workers to benefit from the large profits now being generated by many media corporations from using freelance copy on their websites."

Telegraph Blogs: Journalists' union boycotts "savage" Israel

Toby Harnden: "I am a member of the NUJ, though at times like this I wonder why. A union battling for better pay and conditions is one thing. But why should my dues be spent on anti-Israel posturing of which I and many other members want no part?"

Rob Hyndman: Defamation Threatened Against TechCrunch

"Mike Arrington has been threatened with a lawsuit over a recent post. Defamation suits don’t seem to be exploding in tandem with the explosive growth of user-generated media, but there is a steady trickle."

TechCrunch: Shannon Terry Is Pissed Off, Threatens Lawsuit Against TechCrunch

Michael Arrington has been threatened with a libel suit, and offers the aggreved person an unedited response to his allegations. Shouldn't he have offered an opportunity to respond *before* publishing his post?

100 Years of the NUJ: NUJ to target hate website

"The NUJ will renew its efforts to have fascist website 'Redwatch’ closed down after delegates voted in favour of a motion to investigate the possibility of legal action."

Editorial Photographers UK: NUJ puts back 'photographers organiser' vote for another year

"Delegates at the centenary Annual Delegates Meeting of the National union of Journalists have voted to defer the decision as to whether to appoint a full time Photographers Organiser for another year."

TVNewser: Jon Stewart Rips Nancy Grace

Jon Stewart's astonishing critique of the coverge of the allegations against Duke lacrosse players really highlights the difference between US and UK journalism's approach to court reporting. Nancy Grace of CNN comes out looking particularly bad.

Media Blog on National Review Online: British journalists officially vote to boycott Israeli goods

This post from a right-wing US magazine is bullshit, but the NUJ delegates who voted for the Israel boycott handed the anti-MSM types this one on a plate.

Little Green Footballs: UK Journalists' Union Votes to Boycott Israel

Well, this was inevitable. Brace for impact.

Mathew Ingram: Josh Wolf: journalist or troublemaker?

"In interviews, Wolf has talked about how the First Amendment was originally written to protect pamphleteers such as Thomas Paine — who were arguably closer to being the 18th-century version of bloggers than to what we call journalists."

Wired: Web 2.0 Is About Controlling Data

Tim O'Reilly: "I've come to think the call for a code of conduct was a bit misguided. A lot of sites have their own terms of service that are a lot like what I proposed for the code of conduct."

Salon: First Amendment martyr?

"Josh Wolf tells Salon why he spent 226 days in prison rather than comply with a subpoena, and gives his take on what a 'journalist' is."

Random Mumblings: U.S. newspapers using Twitter

Jack Lail: "I've discovered four five U.S. newspapers providing headlines on Twitter." The Knoxville News Sentinel, the Portland Oregonian, the New York Times, Chicago Redye and the Spokesman Review.

DigiDave: The Networked Journalist

"How do you do journalism in a networked age? Set up shop ... Outreach ... working with participants ... editing"

Independent on Sunday: Fortune favours the brave and the compact revolutionaries

Peter Cole in (of course) the Indy: "[Predict print's demise] often enough and people will believe it. We do not have to sell the death of newspapers in order to promote the growth of online." Ex-broadsheet quality papers are doing OK, remember?

Lunch over IP: "Don't speak. Point!" - Three ingredients of the future of journalism

Bruno Giussani: "[J]ournalists ... need not fear what's coming because it will be exciting and vastly expand their possibilities. But ... they will need to reinvent themselves as a skilled part of a crowd rather than as lecturers"

Citizen Media Watch: OhMyNews goes 2.0

"Next month the ground-breaking South Korean citizen media site OhMyNews will relaunch as 'OhMyNews 2.0'"

James Cridland: How news works

James Cridland tracks how a story about something Virgin Radio did became news. Conclusion: "news on the internet appears to run through a chinese whispers system." Only two news sites credited the orgininal Guardian report.

FollowTheMedia: Publishers Around The World Should Study Closely The Tampa Tribune’s New Business Plan

Like many papers, the Tampa Tribune outsourcing backoffice jobs, making cutbacks and shrinking its circulation area. But it's also investing online and not sacking the district reporters. Intead they are being reassigned to hyperlocal patches.

Telegraph Blogs: Ben Fenton: Establishing a rapport

Ben Fenton on the Telegraph bloggers' open house: "In almost 20 years as a Fleet Street reporter, I have never previously met Telegraph consumers except on an ad hoc, coincidental basis and now I realise what I have been missing."

100 Years of the NUJ: Work experience rights motion passed

"A motion at the NUJ centenary ADM to improve rights for those on work experience placements has been passed unanimously. The motion requests the NUJ to urge media organizations to stop exploitation of new graduates across the UK."

100 Years of the NUJ: Politicisation of the union?

"The danger ... is that further politicisation ... could not only weaken and fragment the union both internally and externally ... but also detract it from its original purpose of representing and protecting journalists."

Independent: Blog bullies propel state of the internet into the spotlight

PCC director Tim Toulmin: "the case for content regulation beyond the general law for citizen journalists has not been made out. ... The case for a form of non-statutory independent regulation for print and digital media ... is stronger than ever."

Steve Outing: Social networking plays a role in another big story

"When traditional media doesn’t serve the needs of the community — in this case, for people involved in the story because they may have friends or family members at the school ... — then people turn to services that do. In this case, Facebook."

Simon Dickson: Breaking news? Break out the blog!

"Dan Gillmor points to the ‘blog-style’ coverage of today’s Virginia Tech shootings in the local Roanoke Times, saying ‘It’s the right format for this kind of event.’" News outlets should have a spare blog ready to launch for cases like this.

Center for Citizen Media: Blog: Mobile Phone Journalism at Virginia Tech

Dan Gillmor: "More and more major news stories will be amplified in this way. Spot news will be, in part, a citizen-captured phenomenon, and there’s no going back."

Editor & Publisher: Gunman Kills 32 on Virginia Tech Campus -- College Paper Covers It

"The college paper at Virginia Polytechnical Institute kept a running account of the tragedy that struck the campus today"

Editor & Publisher: Roanoke Paper Covers Virginia Tech Massacre Blog-Style -- 32 Dead

"The Roanoke Times, the closest daily paper to the Virginia Tech campus, has been covering the shooting of more than 30 students there on its Web site with updates to a blog-style story"

cybersoc.com: virginia tech shootings: shocking first hand accounts from bloggers

Robin Hamman passed a student's Livejournal post, "which includes several pieces of potentially verifiable information", on to colleagues at BBC News Online ...

Editor & Publisher: Pulitzer Winners Just Announced

The 91st annual Pulitzer Prizes were announced yesterday at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Guardian: [Freedom of Information] Trivial pursuit

David Walker: "[The] Daily Mail ... like other media, has made use of the act largely in pursuit of political vendettas - doing down Labour ministers it does not like or, in this case, unearthing information of stupefying triviality."

New York Times: Deadly Rampage - Virginia Tech Shooting

The New York Times used interactive graphics to illustrate the Virginia Tech shooting story online.

cybersoc.com: Virginia Tech bloggers: approach and confirm or link and disclaim?

Robin Hamman: "Journalists are increasingly aware of, and willing to use, social networking sites and blogs to find contacts, context and content for their stories." ... but some of the Virginia Tech students are not happy about it.

The Blotter: "I Want to Clear My Name"

"He is Asian, he lived in the dorm where the first shooting occurred and he recently broke up with his girlfriend -- he also happens to have a web blog packed with pictures in which he poses with firearms. On the Internet, [he] is as good as convicted."

Emma Barnett: NUJ - Get your priorities sorted

"What right do the NUJ - which incidentally I have paid my measly ten pounds to be a member of this year - (for the perks I have yet to receive - other than a pretty membership card) - have to start delving into issues that are not within their remit?"

Random Mumblings: How Blacksburg got covered

Jack Lail's roundup of how the Virginia Tech shootings have been covered.

Threat Level: Internet names the wrong killer

"In the absence of any official information from police on the identity of the Virginia Tech killer, internet sleuths claiming to be in-the-know have been calling attention -- on message boards and online aggregators like Digg -- to the LiveJournal blog o

Cybersoc.com: cloudalicious graph for cybersoc.com

"Cloudalicious is a service that looks at how your blog has been bookmarked and tagged on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us, then plots it on a graph."

One Man & His Blog: Digital Doorstopping: New Worlds, Old Techniques

Adam Tinworth on the journalists contacting Virginia Tech students via Livejournal: "Barging into that community and asking for comment feels not unlike barging into a pub and asking somebody for comments."

New York Times: Best-Informed Also View Fake News, Study Says

A survey shows well-informed repsondents watch Jon Stewart's "fake news", while badly-informed respondents watched "network morning news programs, Fox News or local television news".

SearchEngineLand: Google Releases Improved Content Removal Tools

Danny Sullivan has good news for Belgian newspapers and editors worried about libellous content in Google's cache: "Google has rolled out new tools to help people quickly get content removed from its search engine."

Slate Magazine: How students tracked the Virginia Tech shootings online

Michael Agger: "As the shooting at Virginia Tech unfolded yesterday, the media and the curious descended on MySpace and LiveJournal. The reporters were looking for scoops, the rest of us were rubbernecking."

InformationWeek: Web 2.0 Expo: Media Companies Confront Mortality

"Maybe mass media was just a temporary phenomenon," mused Rich Skrenta, co-founder and CEO of news aggregator Topix, noting that mass media arose as a consequence of controlled distribution and captive consumer attention.

BBC The Editors: How you can help [Alan Johnston]

Get the BBC's blog button highlighting the kidnapping of Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston.

MediaPaL@LSE: Who needs freedom of (trivial) information?

Andrew Scott replies to David Walker: "the FoI Act will be used by muckrakers to witless ends. But ultimately, so what!? Its a non sequitur to conclude that the mechanism is therefore useless or worse."

UCL The Constitution Unit: FOI disclosure of Treasury’s 1997 advice about tax treatment of dividends

Robert Hazell: "FOI increases accountability, but decreases trust ... FOI disclosures generally tend to decrease trust ... FOI increases the accountability of ministers, not civil servants ... FOI does not threaten the frankness of civil service advice."

Notes from a Teacher: The new coverage

Mark Hamilton says the Virginia Tech story showed "the new mediascape in action, a potent mix of journalists, witnesses and aggregators telling the story better than any of them could alone."

Slate Magazine: In praise of insensitive reporters

"We'd hate them even more if they didn't overcover the Virginia Tech story," says Jack Shafer.

The Hotline: Networks Scour Facebook

Emily Goodin of the National Journal spots ABC and NBC reporters posting interview requests on Virginia Tech Facebook pages.

BuzzMachine: The value of exclusivity

Jeff Jarvis on CNN's exclusive Virginia Tech mobile phone footage: "The value of an exclusive today lasts about 30 seconds."

Teaching Online Journalism: Big stories -- too big

Mindy McAdams on the advantages of print journalism for long, complex stories. Spreads allow readers to aborb everything; "We lose this on the Web."

Chicago Tribune: Old-style media can't see how Google, Yahoo are profiting

"Angst over how to best work with Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and America Online has become the hot-button issue in the newspaper business..."

BBC News: Two cautioned over wi-fi 'theft'

"Two people have been cautioned for using people's wi-fi broadband internet connections without permission."

Guardian: Operation Ore flawed by fraud

"The high-profile crackdown on internet child porn has claimed lives and destroyed reputations. But fresh evidence says the police got it wrong, says Duncan Campbell"

Times: What do MPs think they’ve got to hide?

Heather Brooke: "If it reaches the statute book, [the Freedom of Information (Amendment)] Bill will be a self-inflicted wound for politicians, who already are suffering from crumbling levels of public trust."

New Statesman: A right to keep digging

Peter Noorlander of Article 19 argues that the Government should actively oppose a Tory backbencher's bill that would exempt Parliament from the Freedom of Information Act.

Editor & Publisher: 'Chicago Tribune' Launches Community Journalism Site

The Chicago Tribune has launched a community journalism Web site encouraging readers in nine suburbs to post their own unedited articles, photos and blogs.

TechCrunch: Exclusive: MySpace News Launches Thursday

"On Thursday morning MySpace will launch its much rumored news property at news.myspace.com. Expect the site to go live and a press release to be issued around 7 am EST." (Already late...)

PC Pro: BBC to develop Mac version of iPlayer

"The BBC has announced that it will provide a Mac version of its iPlayer video application, reversing an earlier decision to deny users of Apple computers access to its vast archive of video and audio recordings."

Los Angeles Times: MySpace visitors to vote on what's news

"The stories will consist of a headline, one paragraph and a link to the full piece on the news site or blog where it originated. Sources will be selected on criteria including the number of links to them and how often the material is updated."

House of Commons: FOI (Amendment) Bill: Notices of Amendments

Norman Baker & Co. have tacked on quite a few amendments to the FOI (Amendement) Bill ahead of tomorrow morning's final debate... But will it run out of time?

: popuri.us

"A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!"

: Statute Law Database

"The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online."

The Register: Operation Ore: evidence of massive credit card fraud

"The implication of Campbell's new evidence is clear: thousands of people may have been falsely accused of the one of the most horrible crimes imaginable. Some may have even died as a result."

Virtual Economics: MySpace Digg clone a squandered opportunity

"MySpace is so large it could effectively operate as a self-contained sub-Internet, using its users daily writings to power a news aggregation tool"

Reuters Blogs: Virginia Tech and social media: some questions for newsrooms

Reuters Global community editor Mark Jones rounds up some of the ethical quandries the Virginia Tech shootings have raised for journalists using material from social media sites.

Charlie Beckett: The death of the editor?

Charlie Beckett on MySpace News' audience control: "It’s being done for commercial reasons. The news audiences will be divided up in to subject areas ... which will allow advertisers to target them in an efficient way that isn’t always possible online

Virtual Economics: The people still known as the audience

Seamus McCauley: "The idea of a participative, read/write web2.0 is a myth - that most people simply aren't contributing, just consuming."

BBC Manchester Blog: When is a blog in public meant to remain private?

Robin Hamman addresses one key media issue that is arising out of the Virginia Tech massacre tragedy: when is a victim's social media material public and fair game for journalists — and when is it private?

The Blog Herald: When Was The Last Time You Thanked Those Who Made Your Blog?

Lorelle VanFossen has a long list of people bloggers should thank for contributing to the functioning of their blogs. The list includes everyone from developers and designers to regular commenters.

Teaching Online Journalism: What a hiring editor looks for (or, what's your URL?)

The printed CV and pack of cuttings is outmoded, says Mindy McAdams, who looks at how journalists should present themselves online when applying for new jobs. (But note the first comment about the situation in the UK!)

Drew B's take on tech PR: Virginia Tech student paper: wishing more universities used Twitter

Planet Backsburg uses Twitter and recently posted: "Wishing more universities would use Twitter to notify students of important events. Including Virginia Tech..."

Organ Grinder: Why the NUJ's boycott of Israeli goods is a mistake

Jonathan Freedland: "The casual reader, unaware of the humdrum realities of trade union politics, assumes that this is a democratic, collective declaration by British journalism that Israel is beyond the pale..."

Globe & Mail: When surfers seek massacre news, every click pays

"When the Titanic went down in 1912, paperboys ... stood on street corners shouting 'Extra! Extra!' When tragedy strikes today, some media outlets deploy a more high-tech - though somewhat controversial - marketing tool: paid search advertising."

Official Google Blog: Your slice of the web

A new Google product tracks its users' use of the web and allows restricting search to those sites already viewed. This is potentially very useful but also potentially worrying in terms of privacy.

SearchEngineLand: Google To Integrate News With Web Search Results

Danny Sullvan reports that news results are being integrated into Google's canonical search results, in place of the "OneBox" that currently seperates out news results at the top of the page.

Mashable: Exclusive: Facebook May Launch Local Classifieds

"Facebook is considering the launch of a local classifieds service, a source told Mashable. Under the proposed system, it would be free to list items in your own network, and cost a few dollars to post to each additional network."

New York Times: New York Post to Double Newsstand Price

The New York Post (annual losses: $70m) is doubling its cover price to 50¢. A few weeks ago it offered home delivery for $13 a year, or about 5¢ per day, and it is given away free in many parts of Manhattan.

Retuers: U.S. newspaper Web sites deliver slower growth

"U.S. newspaper publishers are betting the Internet is the key to their survival, but a worsening classified advertising slump is hampering efforts to make good on their digital strategies."

Editor & Publisher: Getting Wired: Kathleen Carroll and AP's New Image

"As executive editor of The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization, Carroll's decisions arguably have more impact on more news reporting than editors of The New York Times, producers at CNN, or the online newsies at Yahoo. "

San Francsisco Chronicle: New-media culture challenges limits of journalism ethics

"The Virginia Tech shooting is the first major U.S. news story in which traditional media and new-media technologies became visibly interdependent."

Online Media Cultist: The Early Reviews of MySpace News Are In, And They Ain’t So Scorching

Reviewers of MySpace's new news service are so far underwhelmed.

Sunday Herald: London's City Am Targets Edinburgh

"London business daily City AM is to launch an Edinburgh edition later this year in the first stage of a roll-out to eight cities around the UK."

The Observer: Retreat will beat the litter Lites

Peter Preston: [London councils' litter payment demands] could be a £2m-a-year extra burden for two free papers that aren't making any money now, or for the foreseeable future."

The New York Observer Media Mob: Journal War Correspondents Battle Dow Jones!

War correspondents at the Wall Street Journal aren't happy about the way they are being treated by Dow Jones in their recent contract negotiations...

Beet.TV: Exclusive: CNN.com Had Record-Breaking 11 Million Video Views on Day of Virginia Tech Schootings

"CNN online video clips of news surrounding the Virginia Tech shootings totaled 11.4 million views on Monday ... exceeding the previous one-day record of 7.7 on December 30, 2006, the day after Saddam's execution."

TimesOnline: Come on, open up in the name of the cow inspector

Heather Brooke discovers appalling record-keeping over some of the most intrusive laws of the land: "the more draconian and arbitrary the entry power, the less it is open to independent scrutiny".

Online Journalism Blog: New contender for worst newspaper video

Paul Bradshaw isn't impressed with the Reading Evening Post's new sports video bulletin. Paul offers some helpful hints for shooting video, like "if you use a cloth for a background, make sure you iron it.".

Lucas Grindley: Media sorry for giving public what it wants?

"Critics allege the public is outraged that the video was aired. Meanwhile, it’s quickly becoming the most-watched clip ever on the Associated Press’ video network."

Anupam Mukerji: Will the Indian Media Bubble Burst Soon?

"For the first time in a decade, newspaper readership in India has declined. Even the seemingly booming TV news industry may be suffering from overcapacity. Are these early signs of the Indian media bubble burst?"

Editor & Publisher: AP Official: VT Killer's Video on Track to Become Most Watched

Cho Seung-Hui's 'multimedia manifesto' is likely to become the most-viewed video on the Associated Press' Online Video Network.

Economist.com: Sneaking into Harare

The Economist's online news editor "goes to Mugabeland".

New Statesman: Union man's disappointment

The comments here are more interesting than the story. Why is Jeremy Dear so astonished that the Israel motion overshadowed all the NUJ's other work? This is precisely why this was such a PR own goal!

Compiler: Facebook moves into Twitter territory

"Facebook released improvements to its Status Updates feature over the weekend, including SMS support and other Twitter-like features."

Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma: Lessons learned from reporting mass murder

Dart Center Ochberg Fellows and other journalists who have covered large-scale killings share their advice for colleagues in Blacksburg

Charlie Beckett: The New FT: the designer’s inside story

Ryan Bowman, the 26-year-old designer behind the FT relaunch, talks to Charlie Beckett.

The Bivings Report: The Plight of Newspaper Bloggers

"After talking with this journalist, I realize that newspaper bloggers are slapped with a variety of restrictions that significantly limit them in their blogging endeavors."

Center for Citizen Media: Blog: The Not-Yet-Former Audience?

Dan Gillmor: "[The] statistics about Web 2.0 participation have implications for citizen media, too. Are we truly erasing the barriers between citizen and media, or are we just replacing one set of gatekeepers with another?"

Editor & Publisher: Honoring the Virginia Tech Student Paper

Joe Strupp: "[The Collegiate Times] may deserve some consideration from the Pulitzer board, even if a special category is required."

GigaOM: Does London Have a Reason to Mesh?

The City's wi-fi network goes live. But will people use it?

Joho the Blog: Media revenge

Dave Weinberger wonders where the thumbs down button is on USA Today's site: "We want to be able to say to the Britney or Justin or We-Should-Teach-Our-Students-Judo article "No no no no no no no no."

Scripting News: TV news of the future?

Dave Winer on television news personalisation: "The goal is to get the best news experience tailored to the interests of specific users."

WebProNews: Telegraph Cluelessly Attacks Google News Indexing

David A. Utter : "The Telegraph has every right to protect its content. What they lack as shown by their robots.txt is the willingness to do it."

gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": history of my blog

I'm guilty of this as well...

Telegraph Blogs: You ask, they choose what to answer

Ian Douglas on Tony Blair's entirely predictable YouTube adventure: "261 comments and 24 video responses duly appeared and now we have answers to four of the easiest ones."

Rosenblumtv: Think Small

Michael Rosenblum reviews a tiny HD camera and concludes "the days of the cameraman are over".

Plasticbag: Links for 2007-04-24

Tom Coates takes on the Independent on Sunday's recent WiFi scare story -- in a del.ici.us links post, no less.

Online Journalism Blog: Three ways of making a successful online magazine

Ex-Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker (now of WPNI) tells Forbes.com about how to prepare a magazine for a web only audience. Um. Yes.

TechCrunch UK: Bringing Back TechCrunch UK

TechCrunch UK is aiming for a June 1 re-launch, and Michael Arrington is looking for an editor. Words like "poisoned" and "chalice" spring to mind when thinking about that gig.

currybetdotnet : Newspapers 2.0: How Web 2.0 is The Times?

Martin Belam reviews the new Times Online for its 2.0iness. Summary: "No standard RSS and social bookmarking icons: bad. The rest: quite good." The Mirror is in his sights next.

Guardian Technology Blog: Blogger & Podcaster magazine: it's not a joke from

Bobbie Johnson is astonished to discover Blogger & Podcaster is actually a real magazine and not an elaborate joke.

Strange Attractor: Sensitivity and social media during disasters

Kevin Anderson looks at when journalists should link to bloggers and recounts one case of an blogger who wrote about his alcoholism and was later furious about being linked to by the Guardian.

Montreal Gazette: British boycott a blow to journalism

"[The NUJ] it has called into question the fairness and impartiality of its membership. ... The call to boycott is an undeserved blow to the credibility of British journalists and an unwarranted attack against Israel."

Online Journalism Blog: Marie Claire podcast raises product placement ethics

"Women’s Wear Daily ... has raised the issue of magazine podcasting ethics separating advertising and editorial after Marie Claire’s Unilever-sponsored 'The Masthead With Marie Claire' podcast featured repeated mentions of the company’s products."

currybetdotnet: Newspapers 2.0: How Web 2.0 is The Mirror online?

Martin Belam continues his online newspaper reviews with a look at the recently-relaunched Mirror.co.uk.

Allmediascotland : Hamish's Odyssey - Part One

"Former ... Press Gazette Scottish correspondent Hamish Mackay is hoping to be elected to the Scottish Parliament on the 3rd of next month. Standing for the new Scottish Voice party"

BBC News: Blair 'no comment' on info bill

"Tony Blair has said it would be "inappropriate" for him to give a view on proposals aimed at exempting MPs from Freedom of Information laws."

Shane Richmond: Introducing: My Telegraph

"My Telegraph allows any reader to create their own blog, store all the comments they make on other readers' blogs and save articles to read later. Version one of the site, which you can see below, will be ready to go live soon."

Epicenter: Calacanis Won't Do Phone Interview -- Cowardly

Oooh... Wired journalist hits back at Calacanis' no phone interviews policy.

The Argus: He may be boring but he is truly effective

"[W]atchers at Westminster now believe Norman Baker is not really a bore but an unlikely political champion. On [Freedom of Information], as with many other issues, he has a habit of being right."

FT.com: Murdoch looks for blueprint for papers ina digital era

"Rupert Murdoch has summoned his top news executives to his Californian ranch next week for a three-day meeting to plan asurvival strategy for hisglobal newspaper empire in the digital age."

Organ Grinder: Newsvine relaunches - how refreshing

Jemima Kiss is absolutely right: Newsvine is "pretty much the best looking, best functioning news site on the web". Check out the "Evergreen" relaunch.

Times Online: Too many spiders on the web?

Bernhard Warner: "News agencies are attacking aggregators like Google News for diminishing the work of journalists. This is selling both the technology and readers short"

Dadblog: Telegraph Blogs: sneak preview of reader blogs

"Why would I choose to host my blog with the Telegraph? Why would I want to make that kind of direct association between my personal acts of self-expression and another piece of media ... which comes with a whole lorryload of semantic and political baggag

New York Times: Don’t Blame Hip-Hop

The NYT does popular music: "And rappers’ hostility toward the police has been a flashpoint since the late 1980s, when the members of N.W.A. stated their position more pithily than this newspaper will allow."

BuzzMachine: The obsolete interview

Jeff Jarvis: "The interview is outmoded and needs to be rethought." ... "in the time of the empowered interviewee".

Boston Herald: Newspapers debate online reader comments

"Many U.S. newspapers are trying to engage readers by allowing them to respond to news stories online. But the anonymity of the Internet lets readers post obscenities and racist hate speech that would never be allowed in the printed paper."

SND Update Blog: Michael Agar to The Indy

"Michael Agar will be leaving The Observer to become graphics director for The Independent on Sunday"

Project Red Stripe: Good news, bad news

The Economist's Project Red Stripe is close to deciding what product they are going to bring to market. It will have a social network at its heart, but they are saying no more than that.

Publishing 2.0: The Journalist Interview Process Needs To Change, Except When It Doesn’t

Scott Karp on the e-mail interview debate: "both sides are right and also wrong". "It’s so easy to say the old model is ENTIRELY broken and therefore we need to throw the WHOLE thing out. If only life were that simple — everything is so much easier in

Jason Calacanis: Most press I ever got for not doing an interview...

Jason Calacanis reflects on the email interview brouhaha: "Print is dead in the news role because it can't keep up with the conversation--not because people don't like print per se."

Scott Rosenberg: The phone, email, blog interview flap

Scott Rosenberg says any reporter who doesn't admit they prefer telephone interviews because they "hope to use the conversational environment as a space in which to prod, wheedle, cajole and possibly trip up their interviewee" is lying.

Invisible Inkling: How to interview a reluctant A-list blogger

"The solution, and a good one at that: Podcast the interview. The reporter gets his quotes; the blogger gets his public interview; the public gets an extra piece of the story: Everyone’s happy. The question now, is how many of your sources would buy int

Editorial Photographers UK: Protect Copyright Epuker Urges

Pete enkins, vice-chair of the NUJ Photographers Sub-Committee addressed Westminster Uni and "stressed the importance of retaining copyright in today’s market of ‘fee erosion’ and ‘increasingly detrimental’ contracts."

Dallas Morning News: Time to cut out an old journalism habit

Steve Blow: "I have given up the little task of clipping my columns from the newspaper and filing them away. I suppose that amounts to a last-gasp admission that this business has changed forever."

The Oxford Student: Colleges leak students’ personal data

"A number of colleges are failing to protect their students from identity theft, an investigation by The Oxford Student has revealed."

The Oxford Student: Oxford: not so hot on heating

The Oxford Student has used infrared imaging and FOI requests for heating bills to reveal the most and least efficient buildings in Oxford.

Notes from a Teacher: Words, words, words (updated)(again)

Mark Hamilton quotes from Anna Politkovskaya and wonders: "Can we get to journalism like this solely by email or blog post? No." That just about says it all. End of silly blogospheric debate.

Frontline Club: Media Talk: Blogging - Self-exposure or self-expression?

Ben Hammersley, Kevin Marsh, Ethan Zuckermann and Alaa Abd El-Fattah debate on a panel moderated by Richard Gizbert at the Frontline Club on World Press Freedom Day.

BusinessWeek: The Big Shots Of Blogdom

"Companies are directing more efforts toward buttering up these New Media players, often feeding them exclusives that play well with their targeted audiences. And for marketers who are increasingly comfortable with spending money on blogs, advertising wit

Peter Cole: So who is winning the prop@g@nda w@r?

Peter Cole rehashes the ongoing ABCe/Hitwise spat between the Telegraph, Times and Guardian -- and has some information about the Independent, which claims 3m uniques. (And aren't those Indy subs clever?)

The Atlantic: Matthew Yglesias

Matt Yglesias is now blogging for the Atlantic Monthly. One of my favourite magazines has signed up the guy whose blog first got me interested in the medium.

currybetdotnet: How Web 2.0 is The Daily Mail?

Martin Belham continues his series of newspaper web site reviews. He is very impressed with the Daily Mail site -- although the blogs may need some work.

Open Secrets: Judge overrules Tribunal on Balen

Martin Rosenbaum clears up some of the dodgy reporting on the Balen Report ruling: "This does not affect the Trbunal's ability to overrule the Commissioner on most issues, just on whether information comes under the derogations which apply to the BBC ..."

Gawker: How To Act Around The Queen

Gawker is amused by the Daily Mail's guide for Americans about how to behave "in the off chance that we somehow encounter that little island's monarch" during her trip to the United States.

New York Times: A Flood Begets a Paper Ark

The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which drop circ to nearly 0 during Katrina, is back up 185,000. Prestorm, it was at 270,000 -- but the city is also a lot smaller since much of the popualtion hasn't returned.

Online Journalism Blog: Stop asking me "Is blogging journalism?"

Paul Bradshaw answers the "inane question": "Blogs are a platform. They can contain journalism, just as TV, radio and print can. Many bloggers practice journalism, many do not. To ask if blogging is a form of journalism is to confuse form with content."

CJR Daily: Why NBC Was Right to Air Cho Package

Kevin Sites: "For those still not convinced that NBC did the right thing, remember, this is the Internet Age. Cho sent his package to NBC, but he could have easily bypassed the mainstream media and posted his videos to YouTube"

allmediascotland: SNP and the Newspapers

"something astonishing happened in the editorial conferences of Scotland’s Sunday papers. With four days to go to the vote, The Sunday Times Scotland, The Sunday Express, Scotland on Sunday and the Sunday Herald all offered support to the SNP"

Propolis: How the media works Part One

Bee-blogger Turlough looks at the remarkable coverage of colony collapse disorder among the national newspapers.

Channel 4: Sleep deprived Britain

"Hotel chain Travelodge surveyed 5,200 professional workers ... [and found] 43 per cent of journalists ... do not turn in until 1am."

Wall Street Journal: Keywords: a Growing Cost for News Sites

Newspapers are spending more and more on keyword advertising for news stories. The New York Times "now buys tens of thousands of them a year."

Editor & Publisher: Virginia Tech J-School Class Writing First Book on Massacre

Journalism studentsat Virginia Tech are writing the first book about the shootings. Much of the book will focus on the experience of a journalism class that was locked down for three hours during the massacre.

Editor & Publisher: Google Helping Open State Public-Record Databases Online

"By providing free consulting and some software, Google Inc. is helping state governments make reams of public records that are now unavailable or hard to find online easily accessible to Web surfers." UK next, please!

FT Alphaville: Dow Jones and Murdoch - news from the blogosphere

The FT blog rounds up blogosphere's view on Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones takeover bid.

New.Journalism.Review: What makes a good Podcast...tips and tricks

1. Have "pace and energy"; 2. Capture "the intimacy of internet radio"; 3. Choose a niche which would "never be accommodated on a mainstream radio station"; 4. "First-class radio production techniques"; 5. "Have an intelligent and witty tone"

bojo: Thanks for buying with us - and here’s your non-existent copy of the Daily Telegraph

Bobbie Johnson comes up with a clever way of saving money on bottled water, without smudging his hands on a copy of the Telegraph... ABC will be shocked this is going on...

Virtual Economics: "ITV will keep control online"

Seamus McCauley reiterates that content creation is not the source of value in newspapers: "Think about it this way - if content creation the source of value why ... are newspaper owners so rich and journalists not?"

currybetdotnet: Newspapers 2.0: How Web 2.0 is The Independent?

In his latest newspaper website review, Martin Belham looks at the Independent, the "least Web 2.0" newspaper whose blogs "bare frankly an embarrassment to the brand."

Financial Times Tech Blog: Digg: Won't someone think of the investors?

"Kevin Rose, Digg's founder, has taken millions of dollars in investment from backers including Pierre Omidyar, Marc Andreesen and Graylock Partners. By Mr Rose's own admission, that investment may now go up in smoke"

Martin Moore Blog: Why blog?

Ahead of tonight's Frontline Club event, Martin Moore writes: "Blogging' is the ability to self-publish. As such it's a technical term not an editorial one. What I mean by that is that it's about how not what. Lumping all blogging together isn't helpful."

BusinessWeek: Belgian newspapers return to Google

"Belgian French-language newspapers were back on Google on Thursday after agreeing that the search engine can link to their Web sites, the first signs of a thaw in a bitter copyright dispute."

Comment is free: World press freedom day

The Guardian's blog site had a whole series of posts for World Press Freedom Day.

currybetdotnet: Newspapers 2.0: How Web 2.0 is The Sun?

Martin Belham looks at Sun Online. He's impressed with their use of Feedzilla, with MySun. The blogs, though, are of "variable quality".

currybetdotnet: Newspapers 2.0: How Web 2.0 is The Guardian?

Martin Belham continues his series of newspaper site reviews. He likes the blogs but is surprised the regular stories don't allow commenting.

Journalism.co.uk: Search engines drive more readers to news sites

new US Hitwise data: print media web sites got 29.7% more traffic from Google than last year. Broadcasters' sites got 35.9% more traffic via Google.

Campaign: Associated Newspapers stops distribution of London Lite

"Associated Newspapers has stopped ...Evening Standard vendors distributing ... London Lite. According to media buyers, the move has been driven by declining sales of the Standard. Distribution will now be solely via London Lite distributors."

Common Sense Journalism: Study questions RSS' usefulness

A University of Maryland study suggests that RSS feeds from mainstream news sites aren't very useful in keeping up with the news.

InfoWorld: Google links to Belgian newspaper content again

The Belgian newspapers are using the “no archive” tag that prevents Google’s from caching their webpages. Google has not signed a license to use the newspapers' content, and maintains its legal position.

Independent: Freedom of Information: Why was Prince William wearing that sash at the parade?

"Fleet Street reporters are not the only users of the right-to-know laws. Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, surveys some of the other beneficiaries"

MediaBizTech: It's not the BBC the newspapers need to worry about, it's ITV Local

Robert Freeman: "ITV Local is an altogether different disruptor. This one is a direct threat. The BBC just wants to stay relevant with local audiences, ITV not only wants the local audience"

New York Times: Murdoch on owning the Wall Street Journal

Interviewed by the NYT, Murdoch "waxed on about his plans to invest in the company’s journalism, including rebranding the forthcoming Fox business channel with The Journal’s name."

The Register: Tribunal forces opening up of ID card 'gateway' docs

"The Information Tribunal has forced the disclosure of strategic reviews of the identity cards system by the Office of Government Commerce, which opposed the disclosure of the information."

Paul Conley: Those darn meddling kids

Paul Conley worries about the widening gap between the skills of working journalists and the demands of new media. He points to a site made by 16-year-olds: "Take a look and ask yourself honestly -- what are these kids doing on this site that I can't do a

Folio Magazine: Ziff Davis Caught in Bloggers' Crosshairs

Are sponsored inline links unethical?

Reuters: Army clamping down on soldiers' blogs

"The U.S. Army is tightening restrictions on soldiers' blogs and other Web site postings to ensure sensitive information about military operations does not make it onto public forums."

Temple Of Spam/Church of Football: We love you too Alistair

Students react to Alistair Stewart's views on journalism graduates who are “worth nothing to us”: "we are going to be one of the first generations to come pre-armed with the knowledge of how [the brave new digital world] all works."

Charles Arthur: We return to the Independent’s blogs, unlike its bloggers; or its scanners

It seems the Independent is having a spot of trouble with a rather essential part of its IT intrastructure...

Shane Richmond: My Telegraph: the early versions

Shane Richmond shows the evolution of the soon-to-be-launched Telegraph blogging site.

The Ecologist: What a load of rubbish

Jon Hughes of the Ecologogist estimated that the London freesheets use "a little over 107 tonnes" of newsprint per day = 1,284 trees * 70% recycled paper = 899 dead trees per day.

ICMPA | University of Maryland: International News and Problems with the News Media’s RSS Feeds

Academic study finds problems with news organisations' RSS feeds.

The Bivings Report: Adrian Holovaty and the Post’s Database Explosion

An overview of the databases that have emerged from Washington Post since Adrian Holovaty joined.

Editor & Publisher: Study Concludes That Many Top News Sites Don't Do RSS Well

Study concludes "RSS users have no idea what they're missing."

Rocky's bru: My fellow Journalists, please blog!

Ahirudin Attan urges Malaysian journalists to blog: "the media in this country will become freer if journalists blog". The government there is looking at categorising bloggers as ‘professionals’ and ‘non-professionals’ to limit access to blogging

The Long Tail: Rupert Murdoch, Longtailer

Murdoch in Forbes: "Media companies don't control the conversation anymore, at least not to the extent that we once did."

Forbes.com: Mixed Media

Rupert Murdoch: "Old media can survive--and thrive--in this new environment, but they must adapt. We must learn how younger generations of consumers prefer to receive their news and entertainment, and we must meet those expectations."

Wired: Web Mashups Turn Citizens Into Washington's Newest Watchdogs

Mashups and wiki-based "political reporting resources like Congresspedia, are increasingly giving ordinary citizens the ability to easily document the flow of special-interest money and how it influences the legislature."

Poynter Online: Copy Editors: The Missing Link in the Online Newsroom

Chief of US subs group: "We're disrespecting online readers by not giving them the same level of editing" [as in print].

Wall Street Journal: A Reality Check for Newspapers

Jason Fry says Copiepresse's fight against Google is "a bid to turn back time and declare a do-over on the basics of search engines -- a quixotic effort that flies in the face of the reality of how content is consumed today".

BuzzMachine: My dinner with Rupert

Jarvis dines with Murdoch...

New York Times: CNet Journalists Intend to Sue Hewlett-Packard Over Surveillance

"Three journalists whose private phone records were scrutinized by investigators working for Hewlett-Packard intend to sue the company for invasion of privacy."

BuzzMachine: Ostrich meets sand

There are still those newspaper editors who wish the Internet would just go away, and Jeff Jarvis has found one.

Los Angeles Times: A London read on Murdoch's plan

Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times looks at its London namesakes and talks to British journalists (including John Lloyd and "Andrew Ferguson Neil") about Murdoch's plans for Dow Jones (and quotes a PG story I wrote, too).

Simon Dickson: New Guardian site on Thursday?

A rumour starts...

Journalism.co.uk: ABCe audits RSS feeds

"ABCe has completed its first audit of an online publisher's RSS feeds ... ABCe measurement only considers RSS numbers generated from aggregators acceptingcookies such as web browser Internet Explorer 7 ... RSS readers ... are not included in the figure."

Editor & Publisher: Craigslist Founder: People Who Run Printing Presses 'Screwed'

Speaking newspapers publishers, Craig Newmark "deftly mentioned newspapers' high profit margins ... as proof there is plenty of money to feed investigative journalism and the newsroom. 'I don't understand what the problem is, ' he said."

Paul Conley: Teach yourself

Paul Conley has prepared a great list of essential resources for teaching yourself journalism skills online.

Jason Kottke: Growth of Twitter vs. Blogger

Twitter is growing a tad faster than Blogger did in its first 253 days. Jason Kottke looks at why this might be the case.

Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog: More Flawed Newspaper Logic

Yes, newspapers generate more profit per reader than their web sites -- "If someone could have prevented the combustion engine and automobile industries from launching, the horse transportation industry would have remained lucrative as well."

The Blog Herald: Are bloggers journalists?

"Are bloggers journalists? If you’re a blogger and you engage in journalism in your blog, then you’re a journalist." ... According to the Free Flow of Information Bill in the United States.

currybetdotnet : Newspapers 2.0: How Web 2.0 are British newspaper web sites?

Martin Belham wraps up his series of newspaper web site reviews with a summary post: "There is a lot of evidence around the newspaper sites that they are beginning to really "get" some new media and Web 2.0 concepts."

Andy Dickinson.net: Newspaper Video: UK overview - Broadsheets

Andy Dickinson looks at the broadsheets' online video efforts: "In general there is still a reliance of outsourcing from all the national papers. But there is a clear increase in the amount of content being generated by staff."

Broadcast: ITN boss criticises BBC mobile plans

ITN's Mark Wood tells a Commons committee about the BBC's mobile plans: "The sudden availability of a lot of content cost-free could destroy a market. These are fragile markets. The commercial returns are still relatively low."

Steve Yelvington: Web tablets: When, or if?

Steve Yelvington looks at epaper-type gizmos like the iRex Iliad and wonders if this is the year they will appear. They have always struggled with the same six problems, he says.

E-Media Tidbits: Columnist's Attack Ignites Blog War

South Africa's blogosphere is reacting to the ignorant and offensive comments of a newspaper columnist who likened bloggers generally to the Virginia Tech murderer.

MediaShift: Web Leads, Print Pubs Improve Environmental Impact

"[E]lectronics hardware, often [becomes] obsolete quickly and containing toxic chemicals. Still, the amount of energy and environmental impact of one session on a computer pales in comparison to the impact of reading a printed newspaper or magazine."

Telegraph Blogs: Shane Richmond: And we're live...

My Telegraph is live...

Simon Dickson: Daily Telegraph launches blogging platform

"Others - specificially, The Sun and Express - have opened ‘personal’ areas within their sites, but both are underwhelming. ‘My Telegraph’ has clearly been put together by people who ‘get it’."

Telegraph: Reuters poised to topple after £8.8bn offer

"NUJ representatives at Reuters have expressed their concerns to management over potential job losses among reporters" if the Thompson merger goes ahead...

Donna Bogatin: Google News Flash: Google.com SERPs get News, and images!

"Google is now demonstrating just how vital Google News content really is to its multi-billion dollar Google.com search advertising AdWords franchise, big time."

Complete Tosh: A new front page for Guardian Unlimited

Neil McIntosh: "It's all very exciting".

Guardian Unlimited: the next step from Guardian Unlimited

Emily Bell: "Although our homepage changes affect the most high profile part of the site, it is just the latest phase in a raft of changes that will affect every part of Guardian Unlimited." ... The commenters aren't happy, though.

Forbes.com: Underappreciated Print

“We think there’s all kinds of value there that’s really untapped,’’ [Google print ads director Tom] Phillips said of the print editions of newspapers. “We actually think it’s an underappreciated medium.”

Project Badger Blog: A Badger Update

Dennis Publishing's skunkworks team have three sites up and running so far: Know Your Mobile, Den of Geek and Den of Wii. Mat Toor provides an update on their progress.

CNET News.com: Yahoo hires economics, sociology researchers

"Duncan Watts, professor of sociology at Columbia University ... and author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, will lead Yahoo's research in human social dynamics, including social networks and collaborative problem solving."

AP: California News Site Outsources News Coverage To India

Local news site pasadenanow.com is advertising for a reporter based in India. Publisher James Macpherson: "Whether you're at a desk in Pasadena or a desk in Mumbai, you're still just a phone call or e-mail away from the interview."

What's Next: Innovations in newspapers: Rob Curley and the new Apple iPhone

Rob Curley on why holding good stories for tomorrow's paper is a bad idea: “If readers see smoke and they log onto your website and don’t see it there, they don’t think you are holding it for tomorrow’s paper, they think YOU SUCK.”

Guardian: Andrew Marr on curling up with a good ebook

Andrew Marr on the pile of newsprint in his house: "The waste of time and space, as well as paper and transport, increasingly offends me." E-books might be the answer.

NMA: Future's chief exec slams Monkey e-zine as 'hype'

"Future Publishing's chief executive Stevie Spring has slammed Dennis Publishing's Monkey, the first digital-only UK consumer magazine, as a load of 'hype'."

Milton Keynes Citizen: Citizen offices raided by police

"The Milton Keynes Citizen newspaper offices have been raided by police executing a search warrant as part of an investigation into leaks to the media."

NMA: Press Gazette plans on and offline relaunch

"Press Gazette will relaunch both in both print and online on 25 May, as its new owner Wilmington looks to stamp its identity on the brand."

Publishing 2.0: Facebook Classified Ad Offering Deals Another Blow To Newspapers

Scott Karp: "If I were a newspaper exec, I’d thinking long and hard about how to create a social network around the one element that newspapers still have claim to — locality. People who live in a city or town have an instant connection."

Journalism.co.uk: Newspapers use open-source software to engage readers online

"Nikolai Thyssen, online director of Denmark's national Dagbladet Information, which switched to Drupal in December, said the software's participatory features - it gives users blogs and is predicated on community responses to articles - are the key."

Times Online: David Montgomery to buy Dutch publisher

"David Montgomery, the former chief executive of the Mirror Group, yesterday moved to forge a new media empire after agreeing to buy Wegener, the Dutch regional publisher, for up to €806 million (£550 million)."

BBC: When should a secret not be a secret?

Two men have been covicted under the official secrets act for leaking a memo. But newspapers are not allowed to link their reporting of the case to the contents of the memo, which is already in the public domain. WWGD?

Craig Murray: Official Secrets Act Convictions

"One worrying aspect of this case is that the jury convicted. There has been a historic reluctance of juries to convict in OSA cases, because they tend to sympathise with the defendants and not with the draconian legislation."

Comment is free: A very public secret

Richard Norton Taylor: "The Guardian, Time, BBC, and Index on Censorship, will appeal against these orders next week."

Sunday Telegraph: End of New Labour spin? I can hardly wait

Editor Patience Wheatcroft says a future government dedicated to openness and honesty would "abandon the effort by this discredited administration to try and limit the use of the Freedom of Information Act".

BBC News: Row over Scientology video

John Sweeney on the video of him losing it in an interview with Scientologists: "I fell into his elephant trap. He shouted at me and I shouted back, louder. If you are interested in becoming a TV journalist, it is a fine example of how not to do it."

New York Times: Tilting at a Digital Future

"If one thing was clear over the weekend, it was that Mr. Murdoch’s determination to revitalize the news will depend as much on mastering geeky technology as storytelling and layout."

Observer: The BBC man, the Scientologist - and the YouTube rant

"The [John Sweeny/Scientology] incident is one of the first examples of 'video ambushing', where organisations being investigated turn the camera on the film makers."

Lost Remote: Offshoring journalism: A job list

Liz Foreman has prepared a list of broadcast jorunalism jobs that can or will be offshored.

Observer: Indian Sun could set tone for future of newspapers

Rupert Murdoch has plans to launch The Sun in India.

Observer: Pay day for Reuters axe man

Nick Mathiason on Tom Glocer: "A dip into his homespun platitudinous blog makes The Simpsons' Ned Flanders seem like Hunter S Thompson." Ouch.

Poynter Online: Covering Outsourcing

Sree Sreenivasan: "Gee, if I spend most of my day 'reporting' by using the phone and the Internet, couldn't someone who is paid one-tenth of my salary easily do this job?"

ThisIsHampshire: How Does A Newspaper Get Recycled In Hampshire

"Readers are getting through a staggering average of 38kg of newspapers each per year - and 50 per cent of them are currently being recycled."

Washington Post: An Understated Pitch

Howard Kurtz on The Economist in Washignton: "the magazine is not Time or Newsweek with an Oxford accent."

Your Right To Know: Libel out of control

Heather Brooke: "The Mumsnet case makes clear how libel affects everyone, not just journalists or those working in the traditional media. More and more of us, thanks to the growing ubiquity of blogs, chat groups and web forums, are vulnerable to this nefa

Wall Street Journal: Bancrofts Stay Cool to Murdoch

"Bancroft family members convened yesterday by conference call to discuss Rupert Murdoch's latest attempt to woo them into accepting News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones."

Japan Times: Citizen-journalism Web sites struggle to attract reporters

"Net movement that shook up South Korea yet to do same here [in Japan]" Theories on OhmyNews Japan: Japanese people are too busy and value anonymity too much; Japanese media is hostile to UGC.

Craig McGinty: Colin Randall, journalist and now blogger

Colin Randall reflects on his experience blogging since being sacked as the Telegraph's Paris correspondent: "The sites attract comment elsewhere, and this keeps me in some people's minds as an active journalist"

Charlie Beckett: “howling blood-thirsty British tabloid journalists”

"The British media has become so frantic in their coverage of the Madeleine McCann story that they have spawned a Portuguese website devoted to correcting their excesses."

Newsweek: Covering Local News From Where?

Newsweek's Andrew Murr interviews the California publisher who is outsourcing local reporting to India.

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Cory Doctorow: "If you want to fight trolling, don't make up a bunch of a priori assumptions about what will or won't discourage trolls. Instead, seek out the troll whisperer and study their techniques."

Guardian Unlimited: Siobhain Butterworth: The readers' editor on ... whether a website should behave like a newspaper

"[The] discussions about the new homepage indicate two distinct sets of users. There are those who expect the website to behave and feel like the newspaper ... Others view print and online Guardian products as mutually exclusive, at least in terms of pres

PC World: LG Philips Launches Bendable E-Paper Color Monitor

"LG.Philips LCD on Sunday took the wraps off the world's first A4-sized color 'e-paper' display, following up on its black and white display of the same size a year ago."

Charles Arthur: And then you remember.. what makes you want to do journalism: asking the uncomfortable questions

An investigative report that I had a minor role in researching is gaining broader attention. I feel exactly the same way about this story as Charles Arthur - this is what I though journalism was all about.

Guardian Unlimited: 50 years of censorship

Jo Glanville: "More than 50 years since Anthony Eden invaded Egypt, there are still documents which Whitehall refuses to release."

AP: No Photos Allowed After Iraqi Blasts

"The Iraqi government said it decided last weekend to keep photographers and camera crews away from blast sites to prevent them from damaging forensic evidence."

E-Media Tidbits: Time for a journalism unconference?

Amy Gahran: "I'm growing tired of the lecture format and of the fairly stiff divide between speakers and audience. Too often at these events, people are mainly talking at each other, rather than brainstorming and collaborating."

Charlie Beckett: Journalism IS for clever people

The LSE now has a journalism course. Wish it had had one when I was a student there.

Stop the NUJ boycott: Reuters chapel calls for reversal of boycott

"This chapel ... believ[es] that all such political positioning by the union runs counter to our commitment as Reuters journalists to maintain professional objectivity and freedom from bias."

NMA: BBC plans to integrate all news teams in one central newsroom

"The BBC is working towards integrating its news interactive team and the other BBC news teams into a central newsroom, in a similar fashion to The Daily Telegraph."

NMA: Industry warns that pre-roll ads could put users off online video

"Media companies should be wary of the impact of pre-roll ads on the take-up of online video, industry leaders have warned."

Steve Outing: Another reason online beats print

"Why anyone still reads the print edition of the [Wall Street] Journal instead of paying for a (cheaper and more complete) online subscription is beyond my comprehension."

Editor & Publisher: NYTimes.com, USAToday.com: Top Newspaper Web Sites in April

"The New York Times, ... tops all other newspaper Web sites with 13.7 million unique users in ... April, according to the most recent Nielsen//NetRatings data. The Orlando Sentinel jumped to the number five slot with 4.9 million unique users."

Editor & Publisher: MySpace Adds 'NY Times' Video Content, Other Channels

MySpace plans to provice video news channels, including ad-supported content from The New York Times, National Geographic and Reuters.

Journalism.co.uk: Video: CNET Network UK's approach to web video

Oliver Luft takes his video camera around the new studios at CNET Networks UK and also looks at VNU's studios.

Wordblog: Future of newspapers debate comes alive

The debate over the impact of the internet is polarised [between] apostles of new media who seem gleeful whenever they can find evidence to support the imminent death of print [and] those like O’Reilly who believe that “there has been no paradigm shif

Wordblog: How elections should be covered on the web

El Pais and El Mundo show how to do online election coverage: "while British papers complain about low turn-outs and voter apathy, the Spanish papers are taking their democracy seriously and doing all they can to inform and involve their readers..."

Publishing 2.0: Google Universal Search Will Be Even More Of A Gatekeeper To Media Company Content

Scott Karp: "Google is already the gatekeeper for a huge percentage of online activity — and a significant percentage of traffic to media company content. That percentage is now likely to increase."

BBC News: Press undercover guidance revised

"The Press Complaints Commission has issued new guidelines for undercover reporting"

Guaridan: MPs back 'squalid' curbs on FoI

"Simon Hughes, the president of the Liberal Democrats, described today's vote as a 'shameful day' for the House of Commons." He's right.

Iain Dale's Diary: You Either Believe in Freedom of Information Or You Don't

These are the MPs who voted in favour of the Bill...

Online Media Cultist: MySpace News Brings Us Painful Screams of Silence

"The 'ghost town effect' is when you head to a web community or platform of some sort and sense… that nothing is going on ... New poster child for the ghost town effect: MySpace News"

Daily Mail: MPs' freedom of information cover-up is a dark day for democracy

The Daily Mail has published a "roll of dishonour" of the MPs who voted for the FOI (Amendment) Bill.

Regret the Error: Ottawa Citizen photo error mistakes innocent man for convicted pedophile

Just about the worst correction a newspaper could have to make...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Move to 'e-paper' not a P-I plan

Newspaper denies reports that it is to publish on on a new colour e-paper device introduced last week.

Your Right To Know: You couldn’t make it up

Heather Brooke writes a column for the Times about the chilliing effect of libel laws following the Mumsnet case. Times Online takes the article down following a complaint from ... Gina Ford.

Editor & Publisher: Will 'NY Post' Scandal Sink Murdoch Bid for 'WSJ?

"The latest Post tidbits speak to two of the frequent charges against Murdoch: that his papers are sensationalistic and ethically-challenged, and that he likes to direct news coverage, including allegedly killing stories that might anger his business frie

Southern Daily Echo: Editor And Lord Chancellor Clash Over Changes To The Power Of Coroners

Southern Daily Echo Ian Murray gives an account of his encounter with Lord Falconer at the Media Law Conference. Murray is concerned about the draft Coroners Bill.

Robin Wilton: It's very simple

"I don't know what's more depressing; the idea that our MPs haven't read their own legislation, or the idea that they think we can't."

Dave Lee: In praise of BBC sports journalists…

"[Jonathan] Pearce who literally had hold of [Didier] Drogba in what was almost a WWE-style headlock. He got his interview, but Drogba could say nothing of interest."

Observer: Lords to shame MPs over secrecy bill

"The proposed legislation will go for a third reading in the Lords next month, but peers are already planning to put down an amendment that would exempt the second chamber from the legislation, making their business far more transparent and open than that

Sunday Times: Secrecy MP got quad bike on expenses

"[David MacLean, the] The Conservative MP behind moves to exempt MPs from freedom of information legislation bought a £3,300 quad bike on parliamentary expenses.

Sunday Times: Leader: A dark day for MPs

"There is no case for exempting the Commons from FOI. Any issues of confidentiality that arise from MPs’ correspondence with constituents are covered under data protection legislation, as MPs know only too well."

Observer: Bid to censor press over prince's army deployment

"Revelations about the deployment of Prince Harry to a war zone will be censored if the government agrees to a proposal that future information surrounding his military career is covered by a D-notice."

Observer: Murdoch gets ready to reshuffle his pack

Is Times editor Robert Thompson being lined up to edit the WSJ if Rupert Murdoch completes the deal? And if so, is Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft to replace him at the Times? Times to launch in Dubai.

Peter Preston: The word on the street near you

Is 'hyperlocal' news the salvation for local papers? Peter Preston looks at Bluffton Today: "Today is a real community newspaper because the community defines its agenda and provides its material - with circulation success in wait only a little further do

Newsweek: Long live the news business

Robert J.Samuelson: "If the Internet permanently crashed tomorrow, I'd be thrilled. Still, the sky-is-falling view of the news business is a triumph of heart over head. Parts of the news complex are expanding."

Telegraph: Beware the blogger boys

Melissa Kite has experienced a misogynistic response to some of her articles from commentors on Britain's conservative political blogs.

New York Observer: Revolt of the Page-Slaves?

Nine young Forbes.com staffers "have recently fled", along with at least 50 other editorial staff since 2005. The churn, some say, is because of a "page-view sweatshop” conditions at the business web site.

Digital Editors' Network: Let's get going

Nick Turner: "After Tuesday’s meeting at UCLAN’s journalism department I think we can now say that the Digital Editors’ Network is now up and running."

Reuters: Injunction Ended Against Google

A US appeals court has overturned a lower court's injunction preventing Google Images from displaying thumbnails of an adult web site's images. The same issue has been raised in some Google News copyright disputes.

: …My heart’s in Accra » Never thought of using it that way…

Ethan Zuckerman: "My favorite example of repurposing recently is my friend Alaa’s use of Twitter to coordinate activities of activists in Egypt."

Complete Tosh, by Neil McIntosh: The business we're in

Neil McIntosh responds to Walter E. Hussman's recent Wall Street Journal piece arguing against free online news. "The argument for paid-for news is dead now," says Neil.

Techcrunch: Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It?

Techcrunch follows up yesterday's Sunday Herald story: "The issue is not Google’s alone. In theory any site that indexes and provides snippets of content from big media companies could easily face the same problem."

PaidContent: Google Denies Content Re-Use Deal With UK News Publishers

"Google has flat-out denied the [Sunday Herald] report it had struck deals with UK newspaper publishers for content carriage on Google News."

Ealing Gazette Blog: Exams

"We’ve almost got a totally different reporting team today, as three of our five reporters have gone to Newcastle, to sit their senior exams. ..."

Kristine Lowe: Facebook Fever

"The Norwegian Press Union says it's sceptical to the way Norwegian journalists are exposing their relationships to their sources by befriending them on Facebook ... "

The Obvious?: Just spotted on last.fm

Euan Semple spots evidence of forthcomnig Last.fm integration on Facebook.

MediaGuardian.co.uk: Telegraph website disrupted

Telegraph.co.uk was disrupted by a DDOS attack for much of Monday.

: Medill program aims to create more 'Adrian Holovatys'

"As part of the Knight News Challenge, the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University was given more than $600,000 to create an academic program blending computer science and journalism, designed to fill a staffing void at ... news sites."

CNET News.com: Newspapers want Google News' quarter

CNET has a good summary of the various legal disputes about Google News.

Yorkshire Post: Norman Baker: Why I'm ashamed of my fellow MPs

Norman Baker on the FOI (Amendment) Bill: "For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be a Member of Parliament. "

Holovaty.com: Knight Foundation grant

Adrian Holovaty is leaving the Washington Post to found a hyperlocal news startup, EveryBlock.

Times Online: Websites like Mumsnet are not above the law

"Websites should not be treated differently to conventional publishers, says the lawyer who won a libel victory for Gina Ford"

Steve Outing: NAA shoots self in foot with flying newspapers

The US newspaper publishers' latest campaign to market newspapers is "beyond lame".

Editor & Publisher: Editors Explore Recent Redesigns at Major Web Sites

Editors at USAToday.com, LATimes.com and WashingtonPost.com explain recent redesigns.

IMPACT®: The Information Tribunal: up to its neck in appeals

"A quick look at the Tribunal's decisions page supports the impression of an increased amount of decisions being made. ... Despite this increase in decisions, a backlog in pending appeals has developed."

Wordblog: Every journalist a blogger?

"Look at some of the blogs that have appeared on media sites and you will find blogs that benefit neither the employer nor the writer. Editors are starting to understand this and are becoming more selective in who they choose to blog ..."

currybetdotnet : Newspapers 2.0: Bloglines newspaper blog RSS subscription figures

Martin Belam looks at newspaper blogs' popularity based on Bloglines subscription figures for 107 newspaper blogs from seven newspapers.

New Statesman: An unholy alliance of Tories and Labour

Menzies Campbell: "Of all public figures, MPs have the least right to be exempt from public scrutiny. We are elected to represent our constituents’ interests and to maintain high standards in public life."

BBC News: Bid to put off info time-wasters

Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is to make a speech encouraging greater use of the FOI exemption for "vexatious" requests as a way of cutting down on time-wasting frivolous requests.

Macworld UK: Google stands behind news search site

Google News product manager Nathan Stoll hints at YouTube integration with IDG; "To the extent that a lot of those are in video and becoming available online, we'd certainly love to make those perspectives available and easily discoverable."

The End of Journalism?: Newspapers are blaming Google News for their own problems. Enjoy the traffic now — you may miss it in the future » Newspapers are blaming Google News for their own problems. Enjoy the traffic now— you may miss it in the future

Steve Boriss: "Demanding that Google News pay newspapers for displaying their headlines, synopses, and links to the papers’ sites makes as much sense as asking the Yellow Pages to pay those with listings."

EducationGuardian.co.uk: Nobel laureate cancels UK trip over Israel boycott

Steven Weinberg, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has cancelled a trip to speak at Imperial College because of the NUJ's decision to call for a boycott of Israel.

House of Commons debates, 23 May 2007: Media (Transparency and Disclosure)

Gary Streeter MP proposes "a Bill to require media organisations to disclose certain information about any payments made by them to individuals for the contribution of those individuals to articles or broadcasts in which they are involved..."

Journalism.co.uk: Paper's online 'child porn' investigation gets PCC backing

The PCC has refused to uphold a complaint against a reporter who registered in an online role-playing game under a false name to glean information about one of its users.

Scotsman.com: Darling wants less freedom on information

"Alistair Darling has called for tighter restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act to protect advice from officials to ministers over MPs' constituency cases at Westminster."

Scotsman.com: Freedom of Information Act 'affecting good government'

"Alistair Darling fears that the Freedom of Information Act is "placing good government at risk" by forcing sensitive papers to be disclosed."

Press Gazette: Blue Sky thinking

Simon Bucks: "I once argued that you wouldn’t trust a citizen journalist any more than a citizen heart surgeon. It was a paternalistic and sermonising approach that most of us shared, but it won’t do any more."

ConservativeHome's ToryDiary: David Maclean's defence

In a memo sent to fellow MPs, David Maclean explained his motives for tabling the bill to exempt Parliament from the Freedom of Information Act.

Gawker: Bill Keller: "Our Stories Are Too Often Too Long"

NY Times editor on the reduction of the paper's size this summer: "Our stories are too often too long... The 1200 word stories could be 800 or 900. There are editors at a Page 1 meeting boasting that a story is only 1400 words."

Red Herring: News Media Wild for Widgets

News organisations including Gannett are increasingly promoting web site widgets, which allow them to "get their content out widely while retaining control of analytics and advertising."

BBC The Editors: Weighing the risks

"A scurrilous piece of journalism appeared in the Wall Street Journal this week regarding Alan Johnston’s kidnapping..."

Reuters: Palestinian official says BBC Gaza reporter alive

Missing BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston was alive and well, a spokesman for the Palestinian cabinet told Sky News on Sunday.

Teaching Online Journalism: Disappearing multimedia: This is nuts

"People like to bookmark things. They like to e-mail links to their friends and work colleagues. This is Online Usability 101, folks: Use permanent URLs."

On The Media: Transcript of "Just Email Me"

Jason Calacanis explains his e-mail interviews only policy...

The New York Observer: The Times Morgue Packs Up and Ships Out

While The Times relocates into its new ultra-modern office tower on Eighth Avenue, the morgue will go to the basement of the former New York Herald Tribune headquarters on West 41st Street—no longer inside the main Times building

Kristine Lowe: Facebook Fever: do you protect your sources better in the bar?

Norwegian journalists have debated the risks of adding sources as friends on Facebook.

Virtual Economics: Nothing new about search

"Consider search optimisation - we've had that since some plumber hit on calling his firm 'Aardvark Plumbers' to secure first place in his local Yellow Pages."

Guardian: Brown promises to reverse vote for secrecy by MPs

Gordon Brown, speaking at the Hay Festival, said the Parliament secrecy bill "will be corrected".

FT.com: Rise in online advertising at US papers

"US newspaper groups experienced a 22 per cent increase in online advertising revenues but the sharp rise was not enough to offset the decline in revenues from traditional print advertising."

Dave Lee: Also in the news…

Bizarrely, it via his blog that I learn that one of Britain's best-blogging student journalists is due to join Press Gazette on work experience ...

I, Reporter: Help Uncover the FOIA Secret-Hold Senator

I, Reporter suggests another networked journalism project to identify a secret hold in the US Senate: Help Identify which Senator is secretly blocking an FOI admendment (they are trying to make it more open in the US, unlike our MPs). This has worked befo

BuzzMachine: After the page

The pageview is dead. Long live the widget, the feed and all that good personalisation stuff.

Hitwise UK: Where to from Google News

"Two weeks ago, Google News fell behind Digg.com in share of UK visits to News and Media websites ... [but] Google News UK refered five times more traffic to News and Media websites than Yahoo! UK & Ireland News."

: Twitter / pressgazette

Get UK journalism news alerts on your mobile or IM via Twitter. Soon to include Fleet Street 2.0.

currybetdotnet: Blogging journalists - Bloglines subscription numbers compared to newspaper blogs

Martin Belam has produced an OPML file of the RSS feeds of some journalists' blogs, including this one... and has a great analysis why journalists' personal blogs may work better than those they produce for their publishers.

What's Next: Innovations in Newspapers: Investigative reporting?

Juan Giner: "When you read the answers from Matthew Purdy, the New York Times Investigations Editor, you will realize that what his team does is just journalism with reporters that have more time do their job."

Publishing 2.0: Should Google Subsidize Journalism? »

Scott Karp: "[I]it’s not Google’s fault that the web destroyed the newspaper business, which in turn destroyed journalism’s source of subsidization."

Poynter Online - Forums: Backwards Old World thinking

Douglas McLennan: "Virtually every meaningful innovation in the digital delivery of news and building of usership has been made outside the newspaper industry."

The Scoop: Shoot the Google

Derek Willis: "We cannot goad or guilt companies like Google into saving journalism when there is much about our own processes that we need to improve."

San Francisco Chronicle: The decline of news

Neil Henry restarts the ol' Google-is-killing-newspapers debate. His book is called "American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media".

Media Week: IoS relaunch to offer new advertiser opportunities

Ooooh boy, this shoudl be good: "The [Independent on Sunday] will also receive branding on The Independent's website, independent.co.uk, for the first time, which will feature blogs from the paper's journalists."

PaidContent.org: AP Will Use Fingerprinting Technology To Track Online Content Use

The AP will be using a digital fingerprinting tool from Attributor Corp to track unauthorised use of its content online.

Complete Tosh: Bullet points in lieu of a blog post

Neil McIntosh: "[R]emember folks, RSS isn't for the mainstream. That's the only reason to explain why Guardian Sports blog - which has a huge audience in the real world - trails far behind the Technology blog."

MediaGuardian.co.uk: Most Daily Mail website users overseas

"A ComScore study of traffic to the websites of 13 UK media organisations shows that the Daily Mail derives 69% of its unique users from overseas, the FT 85% and the Independent 73%."

One Man & His Blog: Press Gazette Covers RBI Sale

"A trade press story popped up on the Press Gazette Twitter feed this morning ... Pity it was one I had known about for a few days…"

Andy Dickinson: Online journalism’s big questions

Questions that 192 "online newsroom leaders" are going to try to answere over teh next three days... It's "just the easy ones"...

Broadcastnow.co.uk: ITN demands mobile crisis talks with BBC

"ITN is calling on the BBC to meet for crisis talks in the latest showdown over the corporation's move to trial mobile services."

: Indepdentent on Sunday blogs

...are already online.

AP: AP's Curley: We're Even Putting News on Nintendo

AP CEO Tom Curley: "The clear imperative today is that we have to go where the users are, and fit our content and interactivity to the screen they happen to be using." ... including that Nintendo Wii thing from a while back...

Steve Yelvington: Boomers still love print? Don't be surprised

For all age cohorts, readership trends in the United States have changed very little for the past 20 years. "The point is that media consumption patterns are set early in life, and tend to persist."

Journalism.co.uk: Sky gives bird's eye news view

Sky News will plot stories on Google Maps using a tool developed by Simon Dickson's Puffball consultancy.

: hackademic.net

As if the RSS reader wasn't bloated enough, my former City University tutor, Jonathan Hewett, has launched yet another new 'hackademic' blog.

The Bivings Report: CNN Launches New Beta Website

"the new site has a recommendation engine that refers you to relevant stories based on your browsing history. "

: Video tour of CNN's new web site

Reading Chronicle Blog: Farewell to The Chronicle... although not quite yet.

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."

Mirror Blogs: King of Spin's diary dilemma

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!"

Invisible Inkling: 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head

"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."

One Man & His Blog: Digital Doorstepping: Still not getting it

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.

Scotsman.com: On the spot: Kevin Dunion, Freedom of Information Commissioner

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."

Scotland on Sunday: Military on standby to free journalist

Saeb Erekat, an adviser to President Mahmoud Abbas, said all factions condemned the abduction, and added: "We must really determine where his location is, and then move... even if it takes a military or a security operation."

IOS Blogs: The New Independent on Sunday

Oh dear, the commenters are not happy about the new design (of course, they almost never are)... Particularly like the comment about the latest Sindy Wifi story...

New York Times: Malicious Boycotts

New York Times leader slams the "shameful" NUJ boycott call: "Who would trust the dispatches of a reporter who has been openly engaged against one side of a conflict?"

The Observer: This academic boycott is an empty gesture

Obs leader: "Last month, the National Union of Journalists voted for a boycott of everything Israeli, an absurd gesture since, if implemented, it would make reporting from Jerusalem impossible."

PressThink: Twilight of the Curmudgeon Class

Are you a journalist of the "Ryan Sholin generation" or a member of the "of the curmudgeon class in newsrooms and J-schools"?

Andy Dickinson: The Curmudgeon Class

"In trying to identify the different challenges one team of editors came up with a number of newsroom types: * The Fearful * The Cummudgeon * The hand holders * Young and keen"

Computer Weekly: Civil servants told to destroy reports on risky IT projects

"Treasury officials are ordering the immediate destruction of "Gateway" internal reports into risky government IT schemes to prevent information on the projects being leaked." (via UK FOIA Blog)

Publishing 2.0: New York Times Live Blogging And The Transformation Of Journalism

Scott Karp on the New York Times liveblogging a debate: "this strikes me as the moment when blogs officially went mainstream and when journalism crossed a tipping point of evolving into the digital age."

Twitterati: More tweets from revamped Press Gazette

Fame, Twitter fame at last!

Holdthefrontpage: Associated Northcliffe Digital's new standard to help unravel the stats

Associated Northcliffe Digital is standardising the way it measures and analyses web traffic across its 113 sites.

Vincent Maher: Reuters Masterclass with Adam Pasick the Second Life journalist

WAN: Adam Pasick on Reuters' Second Life Island, Richard Sambrook on the typology of UGC, and REbecca McKinnon on the unequal distribution of media coverage in the world.

Brand Republic: Dennis close to finalising sale of US magazines

"Dennis Publishing is close to finalising the sale of its US magazines Maxim, Stuff and music title Blender to private equity firm Quadrangle Group for an estimated $250m (£125.4m)."

Followthemedia: The Journalist Whom Yahoo Identified to Chinese Authorities And Now Languishes in Jail Serving 10-Years Wins WAN’s Golden Pen of Freedom

The Shi Tao has won WAN's Golden Pen of Freedom award

Google LatLong: Hop on the bus, Gus. Or the train. Or the subway.

Google is adding a system to allow public transport authorities to add information about buses and underground lines and their scheduling information to Google Maps.

American Journalism Review: Rolling the Dice

The Washington Post's Paul Farhi takes a sceptical look at the economics of hyperlocal news sites, including WPNI's suburban microsites.

The Local Onliner: WashingtonPost.Com Launches ‘Local Explorer’

Peter Krasilovsky: "WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched 'Local Explorer,' which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for 'mapped journalism.'"

Howard Owens: Hyperlocal is just a fad, but what the word represents is nothing new

"Hyperlocal journalism is just a fad term for what good community papers have been doing for hundreds of years. It’s a fad term for the kind of nuts-and-bolts community coverage many daily newspapers abandoned in the wake of Woodward and Bernstein."

I’m Simon Dickson: Puffbox web app nails murder suspect

A wanted man was arrested following a tip from someone who had seen him on Sky News' interactive crime map.

onlinejournalismus.de: Tagesspiegel, Relaunch

German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel releaunches online. Before and after pics.

Shane Richmond: Putting the 'ahhhh' into RSS

"[T]he first half of My Telegraph, community, was about bringing blogs to people who had never tried them before, so the second half, personalisation, is about bringing news feeds to novices."

Journalism.co.uk: : SA: New York Times to launch CityRoom multi-media local news site

More about City Room at the New York Times.

Journalism.co.uk: Freelance reporter as video game hero

"Video games could be used to train the journalists of the future, according to the developers of one upcoming title that casts the player not as an action-hungry warmonger, but as a freelance reporter."

Editor & Publisher: Papers Still Dominate Local Online Ad Spending

"Newspaper Web sites might reap the most from local advertisers spending online but a new study reveals online newspapers are losing share."

Mike Butcher: How Digital Media Screwed the Media Business

'[When Press Gaztte closed] it turns out that the magazine's website, at 110,000 unique users a month, was much more popular than the printed version which only managed 4,639 in sales. Of course, all the effort went into the printed title." err...

Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: Should journalists learn to code?

"[T]he pressing need is not for people who can write code with one hand and stories with the other. What journalists do need is working digital literacy."

Stop the NUJ boycott: Democracy in the NUJ

Rory Cellan Jones: "[T]his whole affair is showing the huge hole in the democratic structure of the union."

currybetdotnet: Twitter polluting Google search results for news topics

Martin Belam: "I've begun to see Twitter cropping up more and more in Google search engine results pages recently, and I can't help thinking that they aren't actually terribly good quality results."

William M. Hartnett: Journalists DO need to know computer programming

William Hartnett argues that journalists should know enough code to perform basic tasks for themselves, not least to free up their developers' time to focus on more complex issues. Spot on.

Wordblog: Web audio refutes refutes 'misquote' claim

The Guardian has posted audio of an interview to debunk cricketer Michael Vaughn's claim to have been misquoted. "Gotcha moment", or revealing insight into his genuine views? Andrew Grant Adamson looks at how this relates to the e-mail intereviews debate.

San Francisco Chronicle: Journalism isn't dying, it's reviving

Dan Gillmor takes on the "misguided charge that search engines are somehow pirating newspapers' work" and the criticism that most blogging is not journalism: "So what? Neither is most writing on paper, most photography, most video or most anything else."

Martin Moore Blog: Precious little explanation

Martin Moore after receiving a call from Precious Williams about the Maily on Sunday's retracted Jon Snow stories: "It isn't tenable for a news organisation to admit it got something so completely wrong but not explain how or why."

Matt Waite: Journalists need|don’t need to learn programming

"Journalists don’t need to learn how to code if all you think journalism can be is words/pictures/video."

Mirror Blogs: Kevin Maguire: Journos' gilded prison at G8

Kevein Maguire complains that the G8 press centre (five miles from the summit Heiligendamm and outside the security barrier) has everything, "except what we value most: hard information."

de.internet.com: Zeitungsverleger: Web 2.0-Inhalte sind kein Journalismus

President of the German Newspaper Publishers' Assn (BDZV): UGC is not journalism, "citizen journalism" is a misnomer, and calling for submissions of celebrity cameraphone-pics can lead to papers encouraging "collective paparazzidom".

mediabistro.com: Sun Correction: Yoko Ono Not A Dog Eater

"Our May 30 story headed 'Uuurrgh! My Corgi kebab is a bit ruff' said that Yoko Ono was on a radio show and 'tasted' dog meat ... The report, which was filed to us by several leading press agencies was wholly wrong..."

BBC: How We Built Britain - Help: Adding photos

The BBC is looking for contributions for its How We Built Britain Photosynth project by encouraging people to upload their images to Flickr.

CNET News.com: BBC show uses Microsoft tech for 3D imagery

"The BBC is using Microsoft's Photosynth 3D imaging software to provide views of prominent British buildings in conjunction with a new TV show, How We Built Britain."

The End of Journalism? : The ‘Diana Effect’ - censorship in the name of sensitivity

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

UK Freedom of Information Blog: Freedom of Information (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill

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.

One Man & His Blog: Blogging is like sex: the more you do it, the better it gets

"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."

SacredFacts: Facebook

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."

reportr.net: The digital dilemmas Facebook poses for journalists

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

Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog: Modernist fears of postmodern behavior

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".

Talking Biz News: The PR strategies behind the Dow Jones saga

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

The Future of News: Finally, something journalists and bloggers might agree on. “Citizen journalist” phrase should go

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"

Wall Street Journal: Murdoch's Role as Proprietor, Journalist and Plans for Dow Jones

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

Observer: If the net is killing newspapers, why are they doing so well?

Peter Preston looks at newspaper circulation figures: "Perhaps it isn't demonic digitalisation that's bringing us down, dear friends. Perhaps it's just us - and what we produce. And perhaps we're too damned morose about change."

New York Times: Snapshots That Do More Than Bore Friends

"Recently, photo-sharing sites like Yahoo’s Flickr.com and SmugMug.com have begun to let users add another dimension to their travel photos. Through a technology called geotagging, users can add G.P.S. data to their pictures"

Independent on Sunday: The Spectator

The comments on the IoS blog are all Roy Greenslade's fault, apparently: "his eagerly awaited review was somewhat short on compliments. Those helpful types at 'The Guardian' website also managed to forward many of his fans to our own site."

BBC News: Taskforce to cut 'cyber warming'

"Computers and other IT equipment have been blamed for causing as much global warming as the airline industry."

Press Gazette: Does your website know its RSS from its elbow?

Martin Belam gives some advice to newspapers about how to make the most of RSS.

MiniMediaGuy: Grassroots media gasping for air

"[To] the students whose heard Dan [Gillmor] say “there’s never been a better time” to be a journalistic entrepreneur, let me add one suggestion: take a deep breath, and hold it for as long as you can."

Matt Waite: Why (some) journalists should learn (some) code

"Recently, I argued that some journalists should learn how to program. Here’s a practical example why."

gair rhydd: University to take disciplinary action against Facebook students

"Students could be unwittingly kept under surveillance by University staff through their use of online media such as Facebook it has emerged, after several Cardiff students were threatened with disciplinary action for comments made on the social networkin

onlinejournalismus.de: Netzeitung hat neuen Besitzer

Netzeitung, David Montgomery's latest acquisition

BrandRepublic: ESPN buys world's biggest cricket site Cricinfo

"ESPN, the US sports channel owned by Disney, has acquired the cricket website Cricinfo from The Wisden Group."

CNET News.com: Blogger removed from NCAA baseball game for blogging

"A blogger from the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., was expelled from a college [baseball] playoff game for live-blogging."

Digital Spy: BBC appoints ex-'CBS Evening News' producer

"The BBC has appointed Rome Hartman, the former executive producer of the CBS Evening News ... to develop and executive produce a new one-hour nightly newscast for BBC America and BBC World."

Reuters Blogs: Out of the press box, blogger!

NCAA response: "Live coverage is considered a protected right that has been granted to CBS as part of a bundled rights agreement. As part of that agreement, ESPN has shared exclusivity on internet rights for the 22 championships it broadcasts."

Christian Science Monitor: Drug wars endanger Mexican press

"Mexico is now considered the most dangerous country for journalists, after Iraq."

Reuters: USA Today, ABC team up on 2008 election coverage

"USA Today ... will share news, blogs and other content related to the 2008 U.S. presidential election with ABC News."

The New York Observer: New York Times Hires TVNewser Blogger Stelter

"Brian Stelter, the 21-year-old blogger behind TVNewser.com, graduated from Towson University last month. Next, he’s joining The New York Times. Mr. Stelter is going to be a staff reporter for the Times business section"

Huffyinthestreet: MySpace is no longer my space

"Why do I need two social networks when one (Facebook) is clearly superior to the other (MySpace)? The answer for me is: you don't."

MediaShift: Virtual Worlds for Kids Entwined with Real World | PBS

"While the media has been abuzz about Second Life and adult virtual worlds, a bevy of virtual worlds for kids have been even more popular than their adult counterparts."

Lost Remote: Help beta test a new journalism website

"Editors’ World is a new service to help journalists better localize international stories for their communities. It’s inviting working journalists to test its beta site."

BuzzMachine: Blogger lands job at the New York Times

Jeff Jarvis on TVNewser Brian Stelter's job at the New York TImes: "Pay attention, journalism students: When I suggest that you blog, this is what I’m talking about."

Iain Dale's Diary: Maclean FOI Bill Will Die Tomorrow

I hope Iain's right: "David Maclean's controversial Bill to amend the Freedom of Information Act is likey to collapse tomorrow unless he can find a Peer willint to sponsor it. So far he has failed."

FT.com: Google warrants an inquiry

By Baroness Kingsmill, former deputy chairman of the Competition Com­mission.

Rex Hammock: Scott Karp now blogging for Folio: about new media’s impact on magazines

A new must-read blog for magazine types.

: Folio's Digital Media Blog by Scott Karp

Shooting by Numbers: Journalists strike over web video

"Eighteen Baltimore Sun photojournalists launched a byline strike today protesting Tribune Co.’s move to force reporters to become photographers and videographers as a way to cut costs, according to a press release sent to E&P today by the Washington-Ba

cybersoc.com: nmkforum2007: plenty of people blogging it

Common User: Old Dogs, New Tricks, NMK

Jem Stone's NMK notes

Brand Republic: Emap approaches Future's Spring about chief executive role

"Emap has approached Stevie Spring, the chief executive of Future, about its vacant chief executive role. ... Spring was contacted, but refused to comment on what she said was speculation."

Simon Dickson: Sky is least transparent news network, for a good reason

"It’s probably fair for the University of Maryland to put Sky News bottom of its rankings of ‘openness and accountability (among) 25 of the world’s top news sites’."

Sports Journalists’ Association newsblog: Baseball reporter expelled for blogging

The SJA blog links the NCAA's blogging ban to similar efforts in football and rugby

SacredFacts: Multi-everything reporting...

Richard Sambrook: "[Ben] Hammersley explains on YouTube what to expect from his new experimental assignment with the BBC. Lots of content, lots of platforms, sites and formats (not just BBC) and lots of transparency."

E-Media Tidbits: Blogger Goes Big Time with NY Times Gig

"[Brian Stelter's] story ... serves as a case study for bloggers who want to use independent publishing as a catalyst for bigger things."

New York Times: Big Radio Makes a Grab for Internet Listeners

"After ceding ground for years to an army of autonomous Internet radio stations, some of which are run from basements and spare bedrooms, the nation’s biggest broadcasters are now marching online"

Thisislondon.co.uk: The Lords destroy bid to keep MPs' expenses secret

"Tory MP David Maclean's controversial Bill to exempt MPs from the Freedom of Information Act failed to win the support of a single member of the House of Lords by a deadline of 5pm yesterday."

Advertising Age: CNN the TV Channel Is No Match for CNN the Website

CNN's ratings have been on a steady decline since 2003 ... Traffic continues to climb over at CNN.com, however, with unique users up nearly 25% to 26 million in April compared with the same period last year plus 90 million subscribers to CNN Mobile.

Editor & Publisher: Pauline Millard Becomes New 'E&P' Online Editor

"She will also be writing regularly for the Web site and in a new feature offering regular picks of the best or most innovative new online features at news sites."

Multimedia Meets Radio: Why Kate Adie hates blogs

Kate Adie tells Mike Mullane: "...journalists shouldn't have any time to blog - there are too many stories waiting to be told!" And thinks BBC managers shouldn't be blogging during office hours. (via Adrian Monck)

Flickr: All the news fit to ignore on

Kevin Anderson spots a great headline from the Islington Gazette...

New York Times: Blogger’s Ejection May Mean Suit for N.C.A.A.

The Louisville Courier-Journal may sue the NCAA for barring its blogging reporter from a college baseball game.

St Albans & Harpenden Review: Parking Tickets Road-by-road

This local newspaper story is crying out for a Google Maps mashup. I've seen the same story done with a mapping element in a Danish paper. (Paging Simon Dickson!)

William M. Hartnett: Paris doing hard time compared to similar offenders

"The [Los Angeles] Times deserves a prize simply for finding a way to use computer-assisted reporting in a story about Paris Hilton."

Independent: Freedom Of Information: The end looks nigh for this 'squalid little Bill'

"Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, welcomes a second [Private Members] Bill which could make the [Freedom of Information Act] stronger." Too bad it has a snowball's chance in hell...

Mashable: YouTube Testing New Beta Design, Bigger Player

Gawker: Do You Have What It Takes To Be The Next TVNewser?

"Now that 21-year-old Brian Stelter has gone off to ... the New York Times, Mediabistro's looking for a new blogger to take his place on TVNewser."

Engadget Mobile: iPhone to make do without Flash?

A rumour that iPhone won't support Flash comes "just days after the latest iPhone commercial depicted a happy, errorless loading of the New York Times' Flash-enabled site "

Christian Science Monitor: Peer-to-peer book reviews fill a niche

"Social-networking websites that connect people through their taste in literature are gaining in popularity – and publishers are starting to take notice."

Gawker: Things From England: U.K. 'Mail' Readers Much Worse Than 'New York Post' Readers

Wow. New York gossip blog Gawker absolutely trashes the Mail on Sunday for its cinema ad. (via Andy Dickinson)

Kristine Lowe: A challenge for Netzeitung's new owner

David Montgomery, whose holding company has bought Germany's Netzeitung "says he wants to focus on online development in order to sustain print."

Google Maps Mania: The decadent urban Google Maps travel guide

"Gridskipper is known as Gawker Media's "decadent urban travel guide" and with their recent redesign which heavily incorporates Google Maps"

: The Blair Years Diary

Alistair Campbell, blogger.

Project Badger Blog: Is MySpace losing its edge to Facebook?

Mat Toor on MySpace: "Not a day goes by that some death metal group from Belgium asks me to be their friend. ... Facebook friends really are your friends rather then strangers trying to score a record deal."

Advertising 2.0: HMV Appoings LBi to create Facebook rival

Robin Grant: "HMV have lost it - what on earth makes them think that they can compete against Facebook's $38 million funding, 200 employees and 1.4 million active UK users?"

Online Journalism Blog: The Lofi Podcast: Should newspapers bother with video journalism?

Trinity Mirror's regional editorial director Neil Benson comes out swinging against the "mountainous pile of pompous, tendentious, ill-informed claptrap" in a podcast by three blogging 'hackademics'...

Philadelphia Inquirer: A wistful look back at big media's day

Glenn 'Instapundit' Reynolds reviews Andrew Keen's "Cult of the Amateur".

CNET News.com: Flickr curtails German photo sharing

To comply with strict German age-verification laws, Flickr users in Germany have been restricted to images marked safe in its filtering tool.

Sky News: The Facebook Craze

Simon Bucks: "Since Facebook opened its doors to anyone, its membership has ballooned. And leading the charge are members of the "mediarati" who have been joining in their droves. Most of them, it should be noted, are considerably older than your average

paidContent.org: Dennis Publishing Sold To Quadrangle Group; Will Hold Onto Week and Maxim UK

"Dennis Publishing, the publisher of magazines such as Maxim, has sold its U.S. arm to private equity firm Quadrangle Group. ... The deal also includes Maximonline "

Tim Worstall: USB Missile Launcher

Just the thing to keep the newsdesk alert: The USB Missile Launcher launches a foam missile all of 10 feet.

Gizmodo: Blow Me: Wind-Powered Cellphone Charger, Plus an Energy Joke

Reduce your gadgets' carbon footprint. Get an Orange wind-powered mobile charger and hope a hurricane passes through your office.

TechCrunch: Embedded Joost Will Change The Market

"Reports that Joost is now talking to hardware vendors about embedding Joost into set-top boxes and televisions will change the market as we know it."

Economist.com: Paper chase: Electronic paper is catching up with the real thing

"While making flexible displays in monochrome has been difficult, adding colours and making them switch fast enough for full-motion video has been a tougher nut to crack."

New York Times: The Lede: Thou Shalt Not Digg Thyself

"Brian Lam, editor in chief of Gizmodo, said in an e-mail that he found it 'unethical' to push anything to Digg that’s 'not our stuff in the first place.'"

Richard Butt: Beaten up for doing his job

Channel M cameraman John Clarke was beaten up by four youths outside the magistrates' courts in Ashton under Lyne.

Readership Institute: Get Smart About Your Readers

"Many go to journalism school because they like to write. They don't think of themselves as techie-types and certainly not as math-types. But these two skills - understanding of technology and comfort with math and statistics - are ever more important for

Observer: Why the Sundays are still special

Peter Preston: Daily growth has not come on a weekday. It has arrived with the weekend, and reading time to spare. The five days of the toilsome week are crisis time for circulation managers. It's the 24/7 nature of rolling news that casts an immediate sh

Independent on Sunday: Upmarket 'Panorama'? 'The Spaghetti Tree was more rooted in reality'

Ex-Panorama man Tom Mangold slams the programme in the Independent on Sunday. Apparently the WiFi episode was its most "embarassiing" "turkey". An interesting statement, given the paper it's published in...

On The Media: The Shadow of Watergate

Alicia Shepard, author of a new book, explains the myth of "Woodstein", explains why the Washington Post reporters get too much of the credit for the Watergate story.

Sunday Times: BBC report damns its ‘culture of bias’

"The BBC is institutionally biased, an official report will conclude this week. The year-long investigation, commissioned by the BBC, has found the corporation particularly partial in its treatment of single-issue politics such as climate change, poverty,

Rex Hammock: Do kids spend more time online than watching TV?

Rex Hammock: "I challenge anyone to provide a link to research showing that ... youth today do not rely on TV or magazines for any of their information."

Mashable: Network Map Shows Regional Stats of Facebook Users

"Network Map is a new Facebook application built by Sami Fouad, to show a visual representation of Facebook’s network stats on a Google map."

Chicago Tribune: What if the press baron returns?

"It's the worst nightmare for executives at Sun-Times Media Group Inc.: Conrad Black, the company's former chief executive, is acquitted of criminal charges and regains his position as the company's controlling shareholder."

Mathew Ingram: William Safire on blogs and journalism

Safire: "Whether you’re a blogger or whether you’re The New York Times or CBS or The Wall Street Journal, if what you are doing is aimed at informing the public, then you’re a journalist, whether you get paid for it or not."

Common Sense Journalism: NCAA vs. Blogging - 2

Doug Fisher: "Now comes a complaint from the Oregonian's editor that the NCAA threatened to yank that papers credentials for the College World Series because editors watching the Oregon super-regional on TV were filing updates to the paper's Web site."

San Francisco Chronicle: Read all about it- but where, exactly? Three books consider the current state of journalism and its future in a landscape dominated by the Internet

Todd Oppenheimer: "Unfortunately, the citizen journalism practitioners -- and their accomplishments -- aren't nearly as numerous as their hyper-visible promoters would have us believe."

Wordblog: Reflections on a year of blogging

Andrew Grant-Adamson: "[B]logging on the media is somewhat constrained and narrow - rather like discussing the future of politics with members of one party only. On the whole those who believe that revolutionary change is taking place and and enjoy it are

FT.com: BBC plans foreign audience push

"The BBC is planning a more aggressive push for international audiences and advertising revenues with an overhaul of its overseas television lineup ... [which] will include new US-focused news programmes for BBC America."

Guardian Unlimited: The readers' editor on ... what lies at the core of the Guardian's liberal tradition

Emily Bell on offensive comments: "[W]e've taught the bloggers what they know. When columnists put out hard-hitting columns the responses are hard-hitting". CiF editor Georgina Henry: ""Anonymity is not a liberal value."

Independent: Matthew Norman's Media Diary

"[The 'feral beasts' speech's] tone seemed mildly influenced by John Lloyd's 2004 meisterwork What The Media Do To Our Politics... by the happiest of coincidences he does happen to be a director of the Reuters Institute."

Independent: The Financial Times: 'We believe they'll be ready to pay for it'

"FT.com, has 90,000 subscribers paying a minimum of £99-a-year, a fact which no doubt helped convince Ridding that a £1.30 price for the paper was sustainable. FT.com now produces 60 videos a month, specialising in filmed interviews with business leader

Evening News 24: City battle to keep Wi-Fi network

Funding for Norwich's controversial municipal wifi project, will run out within the next 12 months unless Norfolk County Council can find a way to keep it going.

MediaPost Online Media Daily: Scarborough: Big Overlap In Newspaper/Web Us

The "Integrated Newspaper Footprint Study" by Scarborough Research in the United States has found a high degree of overlap in the use of online and print versions of newspapers.

tagesschau.de: Hofer kommt aufs Handy

One of Germany's leading evening television news bulletins will be available from 16 July as a 100-second downloadable version suitable for moblie phones.

Guardian Unlimited: Advertisement feature: Second Fest

Now the Graun jumps on the Second Life bandwagon. I can hardly contain my fascination.

NMA: News Corp uses MySpace to haggle with Yahoo!

"News Corporation is considering selling MySpace to Yahoo! in return for a stake in the company, according to reports."

Heather Hopkins: Hitwise UK: YouTube to Overtake BBC in UK Visits

"YouTube looks set to overtake BBC.co.uk in share of UK visits within a matter of weeks."

The Indiepub Blog: Hyper Local Journalism, Video-Style

Mac Slocum: "StoryBridge.tv is an interesting Web start-up that blends local coverage with professional video production. The "professional" bit gets a boost from Katy Sai and Jay Olsen, two former Wisconsin-based TV veterans who quit their jobs to launch

Publishing 2.0: Newspapers Should Embrace Online Aggregators

Scott Karp: "The problem that newspapers and other traditional media brands have is that they still see branding as a function of controlling the distribution channel, rather than branding each unit of content that must now live and survive on its own"

Etaoin Shrdlu: 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... liftoff

McClatchy's new national website for public affairs journalism launched about noon Eastern time today: news.mcclatchy.com

The New York Observer: New York Times Undertakes Multi-Bureau Rupert Murdoch Investigation

"The New York Times is currently undertaking a major news investigation, led by managing editor Jill Abramson, into News Corp.’s business dealings throughout the world..."

Telegraph: BBC 'risked safety of troops'

"The BBC was accused last night of risking the safety of British forces in Iraq after trawling for information on troop movements in the war-torn country."

: Random Acts of Journalism

A blog to watch and comment on -- Jessica is graduate student at the University of Sussex looking at citizen media.

Businessweek: Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online

An impressive BusinessWeek chart shows what different age groups of US internet users are doing online (via Alfred Hermida).

Media Culpa: Metro pays bloggers per page view

"Metrobloggen [is] a new blog tool where the free daily Metro offers its hosted bloggers 3 öre (about half a US cent) per page view."

Netzeitung: Online-Videos bald auch von dpa

Germany's DPA agency joins the online video race.

Telegraph Blogs: Getting it wrong

Shane Richmond says two Andrews -- Keen and the The Register's Orlowski -- are very wrong indeed in their analyses. Orlowski says newspapers are engaged in a lemming-like rush to put their content online for free. A bit like the Register, obviously.

SND Update Blog: New director in Western Europe

Alan Formby-Jackson, sub-editor and designer at the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough, is the new director of the Western Europe region of the Society of News Design.

Guardian: Lords warn against curbs on FoI

"Parliament's reputation is "at serious risk" from attempts to exempt its members from the freedom of information act, [The all-party Lords constitution committee] warned today."

yelvington.com: Stop shoveling, start building

Steve Yelvington: "Every day, millions of pieces of information stream through the newsrooms of every newspaper in the world. ... Very little is put to good long-term use."

mbites: A new project: Using social media tools to report the world

Mike Butcher says he is working on a social media reporting project like Ben Hammersley's "with two entirely independent journalists, who don't have the BBC's resources".

Journerdism: Newspapers building long-life resources; Big media, act small; AT&T’s big new monopoly acts shady; Music mashups, politics & Girl Talk; Pulitzer for Jon Stewart?

Wot's this? Lolcats in newspapers!? "I'm in ur newspaper writin mah colum".

Brand Republic: Yahoo! acquires sports news website Rivals.com

"Yahoo! has acquired US-based college and high school sports website Rivals for an undisclosed sum, to boost its sports publishing and online communities business."

SmartMoney.com: EU Clears NBC, NewsCorp To Form Internet Video JV

"The European Commission Thursday cleared U.S. media giants NBC Universal and News Corp. to form a joint venture which will broadcast television and film entertainment over the Internet."

Press Gazette: BBC reporter tours Turkey in social media experiment

"Hammersley will file to his personal blog, he will upload photos to Flickr, video to YouTube, post snippets of text to the microblogging site Twitter, bookmark research on the social bookmarking site del.icio.us and network with people through Facebook."

Gizmodo: Locals Only: Local News Invades Your Verizon Wireless V Cast Phone

"Verizon Wireless announced Local TV Video, news, sport and weather from assorted local affiliates ... on its V Cast mobile video service."

New York Times: ABC Says It Was Outbid for Paris Hilton Interview - New York Times

Good grief: "Representatives of ABC News said yesterday that they had lost to NBC for the first interview with Paris Hilton after her release from jail next week because ABC was unwilling to make a “high six-figure deal” with Ms. Hilton’s family."

Exact Editions: Environmental magazines

"Get the digital magazine strategy right, and the BBC will not only save money, it will improve revenues and profits. Of course it will dramatically reduce its carbon footprint at the same time."

Journalism.co.uk: Metric used to measure popularity of newspaper websites likely to change

"The monthly unique user metric - a scale by which newspaper websites can measure their popularity - could be discarded in favour of a daily figure by ABCe"

Etaoin Shrdlu: The language of baseball

"the L.A. Times just hired a 2002 UCLA grad who is fluent in Spanish and Japanese to cover the Dodgers.Just seemed worth noting."

Worcester News: Are You At Glastonbury Send Us Your Pics

The Worcester News is soliciting picutres from Glastonbury via mobile, e-mail or web upload. And they've introduced comment registration to keep away trolls.

Lucas Grindley: Citizen media activist fights for some R-E-S-P-E-C-T

More evidence that the term "citizen journalism" obfuscates and should be banished.

Ben Hammersley: One Month, Two Weeks, Three Hours

"In addition to reporting on BBC World and News 24, and the World Service, I’ll be reporting online very soon at bbcnews.com/turkishjourney, with behind-the-scenes video, exclusive photography, and live blogging of the trip."

Nick Robinson's Newslog: Interviewing Gordon Brown

The whole, unedited interview between the future PM and a gaggle of BBC reporters will appear on a BBC blog after transmission of a shorter version on Friday's Newsnight.

Spiegel: Foren-Haftung: Gnadenlose Richter gefährden Web 2.0 in Deutschland

Germany has some of the strictest online forum liability issues in the world. As in the UK, German law is unclear about liability for commenters' libelous statements. Der Spiegel suggests the legal position risks stifling Web 2.0 development in Germany.

The Register: Open sourcers rattle EU sabre at BBC on demand player

The Open Source Consortium says says the BBC is locking users into a Microsoft platform with its iPlayer and will raise an anti-trust complaint with Ofcom next week, and could go as far as the European Competition Commission.

Reuters: Independent News & Media buys back more shares

O'Reilly vs O'Brien rumbles on: "Independent News & Media said on Friday it had bought back a further 1 million of its own shares, bringing the total number of shares bought since late May to over 13.5 million."

The Argus (Brighton): Publishers Heartache As His Firm Goes Bust

"Medialab, the company which publishes the Metro newspaper in Sussex, has gone bust. All 20 staff ... have been made redundant after the firm went into voluntary liquidation."

Editor & Publisher: No Regrets for Michigan Editor About Posting Salary Database

The State Journal in Michigan has published a database of state employees' salaries, drawing ire from their union -- and even one Freedom of Information activist who says there was no public interest in publishing this already-public data.

Design on Deadline: The Digital Newsstand

17" monitor, Mac Mini and speakers inside an old American newspaper sales box... Applescript fetches front pages from Newseum to display the latest news...

Telegraph Blogs: Catherine Elsworth: I want iPhone

Foreign correspondents like the Telegraph's woman in LA are being denied iPhones for review by dastardly Apple PRs. Foreign news outlets will have to wait until the end of the year, it seems.

Independent on Sunday: We must rescue boys from cyberspace so they can live in the real world - Independent Online Edition > Janet Street-Porter

Now Janet Street-Porter thinks the spate of teenage suicides in Northern Ireland has something to do with the Internet: "[T]he internet's true negative power is to replace real relationships and friendships with cyber pals."

The Register: Defamation lawsuit seeks to unmask anonymous cowards

Two Yale law students are suing an operator and several anonymous users of AutoAdmit.com for psychological and economic injury including the loss of a job due to defamtory comments left by the anonymous users.

Telegraph: How bloggers revealed Royal's break-up

"It has been the work of les blogueurs, the country's new chattering class, whose discussions of their leaders' peccadilloes now threatens to undermine the country's notoriously strict privacy laws."

Times Online: The British household bills rip-off

"Britain is one of the most expensive places in Europe to get high-speed internet access, according to switching site Moneysupermarket."

Wired Blogs: Epicenter: Dismantling the Media With the BBC's News Director, Richard Sambrook

Richard Sambrook tells David Weinberger: "we don't own the news anymore. And certainly the gatekeeper role that the media played is gone forever."

Press Gazette: Blimey O'Reilly: The web revenue threat is no myth

Peter Kirwan: "[T]he economics of print and online are about as compatible as Evian and crude oil."

O'Reilly Radar: Facebook in the Mail

"Six percent of the mail coming into [The University of California, Berkeley e-mail system] in May 2007 -- across all students, staff, and faculty -- is from Facebook. For a single source -- a single application -- that is a staggering percentage."

Danah Boyd: iewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

Danah Boyd argues that social networks are becoming class-divided: high-social-status American teens are all on or switching to Facebook while marginalized, low-SES, "non-hegemonic", teens continue to be drawn to MySpace.

AllFacebook.com: The Unofficial Facebook Blog

Strange Attractor: Newsvine and news as a social object

Kevin Anderson: "Newsvine isn't like most news community sites, but it has features that more news sites should adopt. To encourage participation and community, news sites need to highlight the participation to encourage participation."

Shane Richmond: So, Glastonbury then

Shane is on-message with today's Telegraph leader about the BBC's Glastonbury coverage team: "a world class collection of dull-witted, sycophantic morons."

Simon Dickson: News Knight: funnier than I feared

"I enjoyed ITV’s new News Knight a lot more than I expected. It’s clearly trying to be a British answer to Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, with a bit of Have I Got News For You thrown in. "

E-consultancy.com: Rackspace plants more than 1,100 trees to offset carbon emissions

"Rackspace Managed Hosting .. has planted 1,103 trees to offset carbon emissions as part of its carbon neutral hosting initiative."

Lost Remote: Washington Post puts video up top

The Washington Post is displaying video more prominantly. Impressively, the videos can be enlarged up to 865x486px. They also include a 15-second pre-roll ad.

newsroom.de: Filtering system for Second Life

(In German) Second Life will add a filtering system to allow Governments to decide for themselves how local laws will apply in the metaverse, Linden Lab chief exec Philip Rosedale has told the German newsmagazine Focus.

NMA: User-generated content users outnumber creators

Here's a bizarre piece fof research from eMarketer, which seems to suggest that 93% of UGC users also create content. That's just a bit out of whack with the 0.0001 per cent rule or whatever it is these days.

Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Sheffield floods keep newsw staff at work all night

Alan Powell, editor of The Star in Sheffield, and many of his staff "have worked a 24-hour shift as it became apparent that rising water levels in the River Don were building the city's biggest story since Hillsborough."

News And Star Message Board: Travels in cyberspace

Nick Turner on his first 24 hours on Facebook: "my embryonic list of friends is a strange mix of friends, family and journalism contacts so I’m not sure what tone I should be taking on my profile."

Techworld.com: Does Google have the biggest IT carbon footprint on the planet?

"Google has committed to carbon neutrality by the end of 2007, which is a typically audacious Google target. However it has not disclosed its carbon footprint to the Carbon Disclosure Trust."

Reuters: Some waiting on iPhone improvements before buying

"Apple's upcoming iPhone is shaping up as this year's must-have gadget, but several perceived shortcomings are pushing some potential buyers to wait for an updated version."

Followthemedia: The Collective Media Had Better Not Take Its Eye Off This Ball!

Aussie rules, college baseball, cricket, rugby, football -- lots of major sports are trying to contol journalists' access to protect the exclusive rights they sell to broadcasters. This issue is not going to go away soon.

Telegraph Blogs: Ian Douglas: The danger for boys isn't online

Read this: Ian Douglas demolishes Janet Street-Porter's "misleading, uncomprehending and dangerous" recent column blaming the internet for suicides in its place.

Advertising Age : Social Networking Reaches Near Full Penetration Among Teens and 'Tweens

"A whopping 96% of online tweens and teens connect to a social network at least once a week, according to a study and white paper being released today from Alloy Media & Marketing"

Wired: Google Maps Is Changing the Way We See the World

Google Maps and its competitors have "become a sprawling, networked atlas — a 'geoweb' that's expanding so quickly its outer edges are impossible to pin down. ... Today, the number of mashed-up Google Maps exceeds 50,000."

Virtual Economics: The Interwebs causes suicide. O rly?

Seamus McCauley smacks down Janet Street-Porter's latest column: "It ignores all of the evidence we have of teenage suicide epidemics that owe nothing at all to the Internet." The evidence actually points at big media reporting high-profile suicides!

YouTube: Daily Telegraph Case: Multimedia Newsroom integration

The Innovation newspaper consulting group has produced 5m video about the Telegraph Media Group's integrated newsroom.

BBC: New frontiers in journalism

Ben Hammersley: "[W]hile there's more news available to you, you're much less likely to know how it was made. ... I think it's easier, and more productive in the end, to do what my maths teacher was always forlornly begging me to do, and show my working."

Publishing 2.0: Why I Didn't Buy An iPhone: The Network

"The network MATTERS — a lot. It matters for voice and it matters for the ultra-hyped mobile web. Verizon’s high speed network IS faster — it’s not full broadband speed, of course, but it blows away the slower networks I’ve used."

Project Red Stripe: Why we stopped blogging: an explanation

"Going under the radar has allowed us to investigate a sector which is totally out of the Economist Group’s remit. ... we wanted to start a not-for-profit."

Nick Robinson's Newslog: Final flourish

Nick Robinson on Cherie Blair's last-minute swipe at the media: "Extraordinary. Gob-smackingly spine-chillingly hair-raisingly extraordinary."

: Reconceiving storytelling at the Associated Press

"Ted Anthony talks to OJR about how the AP is trying, through its asap portal, to meet the needs of readers who want to access information in different ways."

NMA: Brûlé says user-generated content is not news worthy

The editor-in-chief of Monocle, "Tyler Brûlé has hit out at the embrace of user-generated content by global newspapers and magazines."

NMA: The Telegraph to build social network for Rugby World Cup

The Telegraph will "use its 'My Telegraph' personalised news service as the foundation for a social networking platform around [the Rugby World Cup in September].

Online Journalism Blog: Relaunched Liverpool Trinity Mirror sites: a thumbs-up

Paul Bradshaw: "Most impressive is a tagging system which allows users to click through to articles on the same subject/person - potentially making the accompanying ‘Related articles’ box redundant."

Reuters Blogs: No one’s getting rich building [widgets]

"[W]hat does [widget] economy mean when most developers of these compact little bundles of software joy have a hard time sustaining their interest by, like, uh, getting paid for the work?"

Tyndall Report: Copyright limiting sports and showbiz news clips online?

"[S]ports leagues and movie studios should relax their ban on online use of their footage in legitimate news stories. Otherwise two interesting--although admittedly inessential--areas of coverage will get squeezed out of the mainstream video news agenda."

Iain Dale's Diary: Polly Toynbee Wants to Be Editor of the Daily Mail

A link that got away...

Virtual Economics: We live our lives in public

Funny parenthetical aside from Seamus McCauley: "Jeff Jarvis today cites Tom Friedman's recent contention (NYT: due to a strategic error on their part, sub req'd) ..."

Strange Attractor: What does your news organisation do that no one else does?

Kevin Anderson: "Brand loyalty? You gotta be kidding. I search and sift and don't look to one 'brand' for my news."

: The Journalism Iconoclast

Pat Thornton's blog. One to add to the reading list immediatly.

cybersoc.com: visualise your facebook social network

Very. Cool. Indeed. Facebook social network visualisation tool.

Times Online: Facebook admits privacy flaw

The flaw was discovered by a blogger...

BBC Open Secrets: Straw Again

Jack Straw is Secretary of State for Justice, and so back in charge of freedom of information policy. Martin Rosenbaum: "[H]e's one of the cabinet ministers least keen on FOI."

Journalism.co.uk: Economist secret web project unveiled

"Lughenjo ... is ... aimed at developing a web platform through which knowledge and collective intelligence from the Economist community can be used to assist development in areas of the world that have suffered from a 'brain drain' to the West."

NPR On The Media: Cruel Britannia

Alistair Campbell talks to US public radio about Tony Blair's relationship with the British media.

Organ Grinder: The warm and cosy world of web editorial

PFJ survey: "Candidates with between 3 and 5 years experience command £24K in the local press but £35K for online titles - that's 46% more. After five years that gap widens further - £30K compared with £45 online."

PRblogger.com: TechCrunch is bigger than the Sun Online

Alexa stats (usual disclaimer apply) suggest TechCrunch gets nearly as much traffic as the Guardian. Stephen Davies "Here’s a team of three (I think) compared alongside two national titles consisting of streams of professional journalists."

New York Times: All the News That's Fit to Print Out

"For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past. But Wikipedia’s notion of the past has enlarged to include things that haven’t even stopped happening yet."

Lost Remote: New CNN.com design launches

CNN.com relaunched a day ahead of plan to cover the Glasgow airport story with its new site.

Stumbling and Mumbling: Martians in politics

Chris Dillow on why Gordon Brown and David Miliband are portrayed as wonks, geeks or swots: "One possibility is simply that anyone of above-average intellect will look like a freakish genius next to the average journalist." Ouch.

Lucas Grindley: RIP: Registration, and its database of lies

"It’s about time the industry faced reality: Registration doesn’t work. The information gathered is largely a database of lies. ... Registration data is only useful to us when it’s also useful to the user."

International Herald Tribune: British media organizations look to U.S. market and beyond

"Though British newspapers like The Guardian and The Times are attracting a big American following on the Internet, they have had a hard time attracting advertising from the United States, analysts say."

Holdthefrontpage: Media industry urged to 'fight tooth and nail' over FOI changes

The media industry must "fight tooth and nail" against proposals to introduce new fees regulations to freedom of information laws ... Alastair Brett, legal manager at The Times ... said at The Law Society in London"

paidContent.org: NFL’s Totalitarian Policies About Online Video Coverage: Some More Details

American football has joined the long list of sports leagues with rules restricting sports reporting in order to protect exclusive broadcast rights. Rafat Ali has some funny video showing the effects.

Journalism.co.uk: Zoo denies stealing bloggers' work

Zoo assistant editor Steve Nash: "[W]e have taken a view that we will only publish images where we have contacted the creator in advance and they have consented in writing." How considerate.

Chron.com: NFL: Video: McClain, Anna-Megan try to avoid breaking 45-second rule

John McClain of the Houston Chronicle has a hilarious protest against the National Football League''s new 45-seconds-of-video-a-day rule. (via PaidContent)

ePolitix.com: Harman: Ministers must address MPs first

"In her first despatch box appearance in the role, Harriet Harman told MPs on Monday that she and Gordon Brown believe that ministers must make major statements in the Commons before briefing details to the media."

New York Times: News Corp. Buys Two Weeklies, Expanding New York City Reach

"News Corp has bought ... The Bronx Times and The Bronx Times Reporter. ... Last fall, News Corporation bought The TimesLedger newspaper group in Queens and The Courier Life group in Brooklyn, with 28 weekly papers."

NPR : Murdoch's World Thrives on Pop Culture

"More evidence that Rupert Murdoch is taking over the world: a dozen 7-Eleven stores are being transformed into Kwik-E-Marts like the one seen on The Simpsons..."

Read/Write Web: New Media Meets Old: A Look at Redesigned Mainstream News Sites

A look at the redesigns of three-recently relaunched news web sites: AOL, CNN and USA Today.

E-Media Tidbits: Russian Blogs Beat "Real" Russian Media

Alan D Abbey: "Blogging in Russia is likely to be more accurate and journalistically sound than any of the traditional, mainstream media in that country, according to Israeli experts on Russia's media..."

Ask E.T.: Megan Jaegerman's brilliant news graphics

Edward Tufte: "Megan Jaegerman produced some of the best news graphics ever while working at The New York Times from 1990 to 1998. .,, Megan has the soul of a news reporter, who happens to use graphs, tables, and illustrations--as well as words--to explai

silicon.com: BBC's new media boss talks web 3.0

"The BBC had been 'caught a bit out of sync with audience demand' for video over the web since 2005 but it is now well-positioned, said [Ashley] Highfield, speaking at a Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group event yesterday"

Rand Republic: BBC is £60m in black but faces viewer criticism

"UK unique user numbers for bbc.co.uk have increased from 12.3m in 2005/6 to 14.8m this year and global unique users are up from 24.3m to 28.3m."

Netzeitung: Stellenanzeigen bringen Zeitungen Zuwächse

"Der Boom am Arbeitsmarkt macht auch die Zeitungsverleger wieder optimistisch. Die Auflagen fallen weiter – aber immerhin schaffen die deutschen Zeitungen ein Umsatzplus."

Broadcastnow.co.uk: Thompson: BBC must get smaller

"When [mark Thompson was] questioned whether journalists would lose their jobs, he said: "We are more committed to journalism than anything else, but no part of the BBC should be immune."

Broadcastnow.co.uk: Director general's earnings on the rise

"[Mark] Thompson's remuneration was up £18,000 on the previous year and was made up of a £624,000 salary, £9,000 in expenses and a £155,000 pension contribution."

Times Online: Images of terrorism captured by 'citizen journalists'

"he first photograph of the failed car-bomb attack on the Tiger Tiger nightclub, in Haymarket, Central London, is thought to have netted the amateur photographer in excess of £20,000.." (HT: RH)

Medienbericht: T-Mobile soll iPhone verkaufen

Report in Rheinische Post claims T-mobile has exclusive iPhone rights for Germany.

BBC: BBC's Gaza correspondent released

"Alan Johnston has been released by kidnappers in the Gaza Strip after 114 days in captivity."

MarketWatch: Google appeals Belgian copyright law, talks ongoing

Google has appealed against the February ruling that it violated Belgian copyright law. An appeal hearing is scheduled for July 17, but Google and Copiepresse are negotiating first.

Telegraph Blogs: Up To A Point: How cash-strapped is the BBC?

The BBC is spending money promoting its Wimbledon coverage on Google Adwords...

cybersoc.com: Alan Johnston is released

Richard Sambrook's 2am Twitter message: "When the phone rings at 2 in the morning its not usually good news. Last night was a great exception...Welcome back Alan..."

Revolution: New figures suggest Facebook and Bebo will trump MySpace long-term

"May saw the first monthly drop in traffic for MySpace since June 2006 and only the second drop since November 2005, according to web research company Nielsen//NetRatings"

James Cridland: Radio's main strength: portability

"Johnston got very animated as he explained his ‘lucky break’: getting a radio. About twenty days in, he was given a radio to listen to: which he promptly tuned in to the BBC World Service. From there, he heard all those messages of goodwill from his

BBC News: Angelika contempt case to proceed

"Contempt of court action will be taken later this year against [the Mail on Sunday] over a story it ran [in February]. ... Editor Christopher Williams and Allan Caldwell, the freelance reporter who wrote the story, also face charges."

Telegraph: ITV lobbies for funds for regional news

"ITV will have a strong case for stopping its regional news coverage unless it gets some form of public funding once the analogue signal is switched off, according to new research by media regulator Ofcom."

Telegraph: How to stave off a digital 'dark age'

"[E]lectronic data is proving far more ephemeral than paper: we now produce and access far more information, but it is harder to keep intact. It is not just historians who are worried. "

The Inksniffer: A convenient untruth: Just because TV news people say they're bigger than newspapers isn't any reason to believe them

John Duncan: "We have got to stop killing our own [newspaper] industry by taking the 'convenient untruths' of rival media at face value. First TV conned us into feeling unloved, now the internet is doing it too."

Broadcastnow.co.uk: Boaden confirms BBC News cutbacks

Helen Boaden expects "an uncomfortable and difficult time" over the next 5 years as lower licence fee means BBC news will be cut back.

Broadcastnow.co.uk: Trust in TV news plummets

"The public's trust in TV news has dropped dramatically since 2002, according to new research from Ofcom."

Broadcastnow.co.uk: 4 Digital wins national radio licence

"The new 12-year multiplex licence will enable Channel 4 Radio to operate ... a current affairs station ... and ... also facilitate Sky News Radio, a joint venture between BSkyB and Chrysalis Radio."

Stuff.co.nz: Fake tornado pic embarrasses TV newsrooms

"TVNZ and TV3 say they have tightened procedures for accepting photos from the public after a picture of a tornado used by both networks during their news bulletins turned out to be a fake."

SND Update Blog: Mobile news on the iPhone

"a ton of sites are scrambling to redesign specifically for Apple's [iphone] ... Noticeably absent from this redesign craze are news organizations. "

Wired: India's News Calligraphers Do It on Deadline

"The Musalman is possibly the last handwritten newspaper in the world. Four professional calligraphers spend three hours on each page every single day to put out this daily paper."

FT.com: Murdoch turns to new page on Wapping

"The Financial Times has learnt that News International is seeking huge new premises in London for its four national newspapers: The Times, The Sun, the News of the World and The Sunday Times."

Journalism.co.uk: The BBC should do less online video, says interactivity head

Pete Clifton: BBC should embed video that complements web stories, not just repurpose News 24 reports alongside web text reports. A new on-demand editor has been appointed to source footage for online.

E-Media Tidbits: Building a Better News CMS

Amy Gahran: "[T]he content management system (CMS) any news org chooses can end up making or breaking its online efforts." Question is: clunky legacy product that is designed to support print repurposing or a newer online-centric system?

Washington City Paper: City Desk: The Post's 10 Web 'Principles'

The Washington Post's memo explaining the relationship between the print and online newsrooms. Number 3: "We will publish most scoops and other exclusives when they are ready, which often will be online."

Telegraph Blogs: Up to a Point: Still the Old Gray Lady

Telegraph.co.uk's Marcus Warren parses the New York Times' comment moderation guidelines. One of them he describes as "borderline priggish". Just the one?

Charlie Beckett: Should you show a drowning man?

Sky News "shows 28 year-old Mike Barnett who died from hypthermia after becoming trapped in a drain grill... Should Sky have shown this?"

FT.com: Al-Jazeera English channel lures US subscribers

"Al-Jazeera English ...has ... more than 20,000 US subscribers to its online service, side-stepping the cable operators whose reluctance to carry the channel overshadowed its launch last November." US viewers are 60% of its audience. The service costs £3

Strange Attractor: Steve Yelvington talks about networked journalism

Why should news organisations have community features? Kevin Anderson interviews Steve Yelvington.

Online Journalism Blog: Rick Waghorn on going solo, the importance of advertising, and where next for ‘My Football Writer’

Rick Waghorn's plans have changed: "I think the way it may work is: I’ve got some funding that we use to actually pay salaried journalists to open a Sheffield bureau or a Manchester bureau rather than someone actually buying a franchise off me.”

reportr.net: How the BBC is experimenting with online video

Alfred Hermida has more about the BBC's new approach to online video, from the ONA meetup last night. (Sorry I couldn't make it!)

MediaWeek: Freeads.co.uk is UK's fastest growing classified site

Freeads.co.uk is the fastest growing classified site in the UK according to the latest figures from Hitwise. Traffic to the site increased by 160% in the first half of 2007, outgrowing the overall classified market by more than 14 times.

Bloggerheads: I plan to blame society (and nicotine withdrawal)

Alan Johnston has been freed... and here is your replacement button

Telegraph Blogs: Shane Richmond: My Telegraph - eight weeks later

MyTelegraph after 8 weeks: "More than 4,500 people have signed up so far, though things have slowed down since the first couple of days when we were handling a new registration every three minutes."

BBC The Editors: Helen Boaden: What's the future for News?

Boaden: "Fewer than 25% of 15- 24s watch 15 consecutive minutes of BBC News on TV in any given week. ... While 16-24s are watching less TV than their counterparts in previous decades, they spend three times as long using new media than over 25s"

Telegraph.co.uk: Trinity close to Midland sale

"Private equity houses Exponent and Barclays Private Equity are closing in on a deal to buy Trinity Mirror's Midland newspaper titles for £160m-£180m."

Publishing 2.0: My iPhone Test Drive

Scott Karp: "[T]here is not a publisher or media company who shouldn’t be tracking the iPhone closely. The iPhone is a window into the future of media."

BusinessWeek: MySpace, Facebook: A Tale of Two Cultures

Danah Boyd's research gets the BusinessWeek treatment. A Myspace "spokesperson says that nearly a quarter (22%) of its users earn more than $100,000."

Engadget: iPhone hacked for shell access

"Well, that didn't take long -- the hacker crew of IRC channel #iPhone has managed to enable shell access to the iPhone just a week after its release."

The Inksniffer: "That was then but this is now. What are you going to do about it?"

David Sullivan: "The newspaper business will never be what it was before the Internet. ... But then theater is not what it was before movies.... They’re all still there, though they’re different. People enjoy them. They buy tickets and go to gallerie

Telegraph: Paxman and Snow consign the tie to the rack

Jon Snow: "I think there is no future for the tie because it has been exposed to ridicule."

Editor & Publisher: Inside Gannett's 'Information Centers'

All 86 of Gannett's US newspapers (except USA Today) have become "Information Centers" -- 24-hour web-first newsrooms. They have desks responsible for local reporting, investigations, data, community and personalisation. But staff are worried about being

Terry Heaton’s PoMo Blog: The important lessons of Backfence’s closing

"[D]ata is what brings people to hyperlocal sites, and many traditional news people are hung up on other types of content."

Times Online: Bloggers want my steak baguette

Michael Parsons on Fred Vogelstein's Wired profile of Michael Arrington: "good bloggers work like dogs. You can't expect readers to show up unless you show up. And the internet never closes."

Lost Remote: Digg, Fark bring traffic - but is it good?

"The folks surfing in from Digg aren’t likely interested in local advertisers - and actually drag down our pageview to unique user count ... What do you think? Is viral traffic good for building business?"

James Cridland: On air now: discoverability for speech

Radio 4 is using contextual DAB livetext in speech programming. James Cridland: "The addition of this metadata means that I might be able to, in future incarnations of the BBC Radio Player, to jump straight to the interview, rather than aimlessly forwardi

New York Times: British Press Assails Curbs on Reporting

Citizen journalism is challenging Britain's court reporting restrictions: "Because many bystanders have sent images on to other people, lawyers said, it is harder to argue that a media organization should not be allowed to publish them."

New York Times: [Andrew Neil] Insisted the Dow Jones Deal Was Done

Neil said that protestations about the article were “all rubbish.” ... “It’s all true,” he added. “I wouldn’t have put my name on it if it wasn’t true.”

Publishing 2.0: Wrong On Hyperlocal: Google And Web 1.0 Killed Backfence

Scott Karp: "[W]hat really killed Backfence was Google and Web 1.0." ... "Hyperlocal is about “community,” sure, but on the Web it’s more about utility".

allmediascotland: Herald Owners to go Under Competition Spotlight

"The Competition Commission has announced it is to re-visit assurances made by Newsquest when it purchased the [Herald] group."

The Sun Online: Maddie: Hope for Maddie parents

"Channel 4 newsman Alex Thomson was rapped after claiming coverage of Maddie made him SICK."

Online Journalism Blog: Contribute to my wiki on wiki journalism

Paul Bradshaw needs your contributions to a wiki about the use of wikis in journalism.

Hollywood Reporter: ESPN shut out of All-Star Game

"Major League Baseball has limited ESPN's access to Tuesday night's All-Star Game after the network broke an embargo and broadcast news of the players' selections a few minutes after an exclusive, rain-delayed telecast on TBS."

Dracos.co.uk: BBC News Archive Tag Cloud

These tag clouds show the top 200 words as used in the main BBC News front page headline for May 2007.

Many2Many: Andrew Keen: Rescuing 'Luddite' from the Luddites

Clay Shirky: "A Luddite argument is one in which some broadly useful technology is opposed on the grounds that it will discomfit the people who benefit from the inefficiency the technology destroys ... especially if the discomfort of the newly challenged

Press Gazette: Being 'local' is anything but a simple formula

Allan Prosser: "Being local used to involve standing outside funerals taking the names of mourners as they left. ... Communities had an identifiable structure. ... Life in 2007 is infinitely more complicated."

cnn.com: Funny News

A new section for all the wacky stuff that will populate the "most read" feature?

Journalism.co.uk: 'The joke was that success would mean we'd become unpopular for doubling workloads'

Oliver Luft chats with Ben Hammersley about the social media reporting experiment following his return from Turkey.

Virtual Economics: Better citizen journalism tools = fewer UFO sightings

"UFO sightings have fallen dramatically in the last decade. Why? Because of ubiquitous camera phones."

Read/Write Web: Tyranny of the Page View Nearly Over?

"Blogs are a good case where 'time spent' is more meaningful than page views. Especially since the blogosphere is particularly prone to the 'quantity over quality' problem. It's easy to pump out 20+ posts a day - and that tactic garners a lot of page view

YouTube: Al Jazeera English - What do you think?

Al Jazeera English is looking for viewer feedback via YouTube.

Media Standards Trust: Genuine MMR concerns or irresponsible reporting?

"So where does the renewed scare about the MMR vaccine come from? This is where the reporting becomes more difficult to assess."

Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab: Is Facebook Friendster 2.0?

"The key question is - from an economic pov, how much long-run value is Facebook really creating?"

Gawker: Will New Metrics Cause Lengthier Paris Hilton Sex Tape Stories?

Gawker spots one of the unfortunate unintended consequences of moving towards time-based metrics instead of pageviews...

Times Online: Blogging for dosh

"But the market for blog advertising, while just a fraction of total ad spending, has quickly become surprisingly large, hitting an estimated $36 million (£17.9 million) last year, according to PQ Media, a Connecticut consultancy."

Martin Belam: British newspaper search plugins for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2

Martin Belam produced "a fairly comprehensive set of 28 search plugins covering the variations of search across the major British newspapers" for Firefox and Internet Explorer.

The Inksniffer: ABC is not our BFF: Why our former ally is now the enemy of newspaper innovation. Time to ditch it.

"I think the time has come for newspapers to abandon the ABC. ... [unlike print metrics, web metrics] changes when the content producers want it to, is inconsistent from one metrics supplier to another, and adapts as consumer habits change."

BBC Open Secrets: Don't publish this blog

Martin Rosenbaum on a Sunday Telegraph effort to get the Home Office to disclose the contents of its internal blog under the Freedom of Information Act.

CNET News.com: More mashing of Google Maps

"Google Maps is launching a new feature Wednesday that enables people to create customized maps with content from multiple mashup Web sites."

Reuters Blogs: Facing the future of news

Dean Wright: "'Multimedia' is one of those words that mean everything and nothing. And I’m convinced our users don’t think of it all. What they want is a good story, told in the most appropriate way, using the most appropriate media: words, pictures,

Simon Dickson: WordPress to do ‘proper’ workflow

"I don’t come across many small-scale websites which couldn’t be done at least as well, or probably better, in WordPress. And now they’re introducing a proper workflow element, the middle market may be up for grabs too."

Guy Fawkes: Sky News: Sir Michael White versus Andrew Gilligan

"A co-conspirator reports a ding-dong of press review late last night on Sky. ... with Gilligan apparently implying that Sir Michael could look forward to some reward in Blair's resignation honours list."

Howard Owens: Eight historical mistakes the newspaper industry made

"My list of mistakes are things, I think, that are beyond hindsight. These are things we knew, or should have known. Obvious things that were obvious years ago."

Howard Owens: This will become the trend: news sites to require real names on comments

"The Sacramento Bee now requires commenters to comment with real names. Look for this to become the norm MSM news sites."

NMA: The Sun expands mobile video services via distribution deals

'News Group Digital, the digital arm of News International, is ramping up its portfolio of mobile video services with a raft of new distribution deals.'

Mirror Blogs: Sean Hamilton: Posh off

Sean Hamilton: "It's one of those brilliant days when Sky News is compelling viewing because so little is happening. I'm loving the way they are reporting the arrival of the Beckhams at Heathrow Airport so seriously."

Daily Mail: Daily Mail's Nigel Dempster, doyen of newspaper diarists, dies aged 65

"Nigel Dempster of the Daily Mail, doyen of newspaper diarists and the man who created the modern gossip column, has died aged 65 following a long illness."

Nieman Watchdog: I.F. Stone's lessons for Internet journalism

Dan Froomkin: "The best blogger ever died in 1989 at the age of 81 ... In many ways, the Weekly was a blog before its time. In format, it was a combination of articles, essays and annotated excerpts from original documents and other people's reporting â

Telegraph Blogs: Shane Richmond: The role of the blogroll

"I disagree with almost everything John [Duncan] writes but I'm glad he's writing it. British journalism bloggers tend to agree on most things so it's good to have someone around who will shake things up a little."

The Australian: Sky News eyes commerce channel

"Plans announced by News Corporation to launch its new Fox Business Network in the US in mid-October are likely to speed moves by Sky News to establish a similar 24-hour pay-TV business channel in Australia."

Firefox Add-ons: People Search and Public Record Toolbar

"This Firefox extension is a handy menu tool for investigators, reporters ... online researchers and anyone interested in doing their own basic people searches and public record lookups as well as background research."

Indepdendent: The City Diary

"ROO has discontinued its association with the FT. Could it have anything to do with ROO being part-owned by Rupert Murdoch, who has set his chops on acquiring the paper's global rival, The Wall Street Journal?"

: TechCrunch Will The Last Corporation Leaving Second Life Please Turn Off The Light?

"[T]he CPM cost for businesses on Second Life is insane: simply even for the very best, the figures don’t add up."

Los Angeles Times: Virtual marketers have second thoughts about Second Life

"[I]t turns out that plugging products is as problematic in the virtual world as it is anywhere else. ... [T]he sites of many of the companies remaining in Second Life are empty."

Times Online: Top schools given Oxbridge boost

Figures released under FOI show that "an elite group of independent schools" are "sending more pupils to a narrowing range of “ivy league” universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol."

Sunday Herald: Black Marks For Firms Who Exaggerate Impact Of Carbon Offsetting Schemes

"Sky TV's [carbon offsetting] claims for a renewable energy plant in Bulgaria may prove illusory," Channel 4's Dispatches programme into carbon offsetting will suggest tomrrow.

Channel 4: Dispatches: The Great Green Smokescreen

Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Tom Clarke dissects the many 'solutions' to global warming being marketed to consumers, from tree planting and carbon offsetting to green energy tariffs.

Telegraph: Radio Times under fire for front covers

"Gill Hudson has admitted that black and Asian people seldom feature on [Radio Times]'s front cover but insists her hands are tied by commercial considerations."

Observer: Call to end war signals start of a media battle

"Far more than in the 1960s, the modern American media landscape is divided into warring tribes who seem to spend at least as much time attacking each other as attacking the administration of the day."

The Columbus Dispatch: This story best told on newsprint

Benjamin J. Marrison: "some news works better online: breaking news, interactive graphics, videos and sound-slides. The Web lets us compete with TV and radio for immediacy. Other news is best served on paper: Investigative projects and detailed narratives

BBC News: [Mail on Sunday] gives away Prince CDs

MoS editor Peter Wright: "Prince has done this because he makes most of his money these days as a performing artist."

currybetdotnet: Off with their heads!

"is the biggest news story in the UK really 'media bloke shows ineptly edited footage to other media blokes and blokettes, and sometimes you can't believe everything you see in adverts on the idiot lantern'?"

Press Gazette: Don't strip newspapers to feed the internet

Inksniffer John Duncan: "like many journalists, I've been totally conned by the myth of the print-conquering newspaper website."

Wordyard: There is no “first blogger”

Scott Rosenberg: "The hunt for “the first blog” or “the day blogging started” will be in vain. Like many significant phenomena in our world, blogging does not have a single point of origin."

The New York Times: The Washington Post to Trade in Hyperlocal News on the Web

More news on the Washington Post's hyperlocal project, LoudonExtra.

I Want Media: Perez Hilton - 'I'm a Journalist and Entertainer'

"The leading celebrity gossip blogger and soon-to-be VH1 star says he's helped change the way people consume celebrity news."

Washington Post: In Push for Local Readers, Post Unleashes LoudounExtra.com

Some LoudonExtra details: "users will be able to download the site's restaurant guide onto their iPods and use their cellphones to find restaurants open late at night." Searchable public records databases are key to hyperlocal sites.

E-Media Tidbits: LoudounExtra.com and the Pointless Embargo

Why the pointlessly embargoed press release on LoudonExtra? Much has been known about the site since at least 4 June.

Croydon Advertiser: Ian Carter Blog: Staffing

"The lines between daily, weekly, paid-for and free newspapers are becoming increasingly blurred with the advances in new media, and every journalist now needs to be able to file stories faster than may have been the case in the past so they can go up onl

mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC: National Journal and InTrade Launch Interactive Prediction Market

"Intrade will supply its leading prediction market technology to National Journal Group, allowing readers and users of NationalJournal.com to predict and trade on political news and events from the 2008 election."

Publishing 2.0: Washington Post's LoudounExtra.com Isn't Yet Hyperlocal Enough

Loudoun county resident Scott Karp: "hyperlocal is most meaningful at community level — even the county level is too big."

William M. Hartnett: Don’t let it go without saying: Reporting skill still matters, always will

"Yes, you should study up on audio, video and, if you’re so inclined, a bit of code, while you’re at it. But please don’t think those skills replace more traditional knowledge."

International Herald Tribune: About our redesign

Michael Oreskes: "Our editors will now have more layout and photo options so we can highlight the relative importance of stories. We hope you will find this design even more readable and usable than before."

Media Week: New Emap launch is for digital eyes only

Media Week: Emap's "consumer media arm has drafted in Geoff Campbell, the former executive publishing director of Emap Australia's men's division, to work on a fashion-based online project."

MediaGuardian.co.uk: Website raises reality TV stakes

A gossip-meets-betting website , popbet.com, is being co-launched by Popbitch and "cultural" betting website ChickenDinner.co.uk.

bojo: Good grief - I think Techcrunch may have officially disappeared up its own backside

Bobbie Johnson: "Let’s be clear, the birth of blogging is hardly even an argument, let alone one worth that’s worth having. And reading Techcrunch is increasingly Just Not Worth It."

Forbes.com: Tech Boom, Media Bust

"Silicon Valley is booming again. But if you work in tech media, there's blood on the floor. ... Rather than running product listings in trade publications and newspapers, media insiders say tech companies prefer to buy keyword ads."

CBS: Passenger Records 4-Hour JFK Airport Nightmare

"As passengers on board Comair Flight 5637, a 50-seat regional jet, began feeling ill after being grounded on the tarmac for over four hours ,,, David Ollila ... decided to take matters into his own hands and uncover what was really going on."

News Shopper: Wanted Online Youth Editor

"We will be appointing a teenager to write articles for our website ... The minimum requirement for the youth editor will be to write one article a week ... Payment for the work will be £50 per month."

Guy Fawkes: Ali Campbell Diaries Pirated In Digital Format

A pirated PDF of the Campbell diaries is floating around the interwebnetz. Guido: "Saves buying it and putting money in the f*****s pocket."

onlinejournalismus.de: Netzeitung vor dem Aus

An article in the FAZ suggests that David Montgomery may be closing, or at least making major cuts, at the online newspaper Netzeitung.

Wall Street Journal: Sports Leagues Impose More Rules on Coverage

"Sports entities, flush with television cash, are exerting more control over access, and reporters say their ability to provide fans with critical, unfettered analysis has been hampered along the way."

paidContent.org: [US ABC] Will Include Online ‘Audience Engagement’ In Newspaper Circ Reports

The US newspaper ABC will for the first time include online audience estimates this autumn.

Journalism.co.uk: Rusbridger tells Lords 'ten year act of faith' needed for digital publishing future

"Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger told a Lords committee that an 'act of faith' was required when investing in a digital future." ... and predicts an "iPod moment" for news...

BBC Open Secrets: Blair & Murdoch - FOI v Campbell

"In the few days leading up to the start of the Iraq War, Tony Blair had three phone conversations with Rupert Murdoch. ... We are now aware of these calls because this information has been released by the Cabinet Office to the LibDem peer Lord Avebury"

'WSJ': Newspaper Downturn Goes From Bad to Worse

"Since the beginning of this year, the rate of decline in advertising revenue has accelerated. Total print and online ad revenue was down 4.8% to $10.6 billion in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to the Newspaper Association of America"

CJR: Conrad Black's Apologist at the [New York] Sun

"Yesterday, the New York Sun's president, editor-in-chief, and co-founder Seth Lipsky waxed nostalgic about his dinner buddy, ideological fellow-traveler, and Sun funder (and let's not forget, newly minted convicted felon ... ), Conrad Black."

AP: Journalist's Widow Sues Terror Groups, Pakistani Banks

"The widow of Daniel Pearl has sued more than a dozen reputed terrorists and Pakistan's largest bank, blaming them for the torture and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter in 2002."

New York Times: [Mediabistro] Web Site for Job Seekers Is Sold

"Laurel Touby turned her popular cocktail parties into a high-traffic Web site for job-seeking media and creative professionals. Yesterday, she sold Mediabistro.com, the company that sprang from those mixers, for $23 million."

The FOI Advocate: CIA tweaks definition of "news media" for FOIA fees

Now counted as "news media" for FOI fees purposes at the CIA: "alternative media" ... disseminated electronically "through telecommunications."

Government Executive: CIA alters 'news media' definition for FOIA requests

"Criticism of proposed rules on fees for obtaining documents under the Freedom of Information Act has prompted the CIA to establish a definition of "news media" that could include bloggers."

Steve Outing: Why newspapers should give it away free

"The Apple iPhone, I think, points out the inevitable doom for print newspapers. While reading news on a desktop PC or laptop isn’t always practical ... at the point that most people are carrying around phones as capable as (or more so than) the iPhone,

Sacramento Bee: Magazine's shelf life has no boundaries

"Every month, about 5 million National Geographics are printed. And many people seem to hoard them. For years, for decades. Why?"

Editor & Publisher: Newsquest Selects Atex Cross-media for Glasgow Titles

Industrial dispute? What industrial dispute? We have pressing workflow management issue to resolve! Herald gets "latest database-managed cross-media content-management solution from Atex"

Economist.com: The third screen

"Except for islands of early adopters, such as South Korea, consumers have so far shown little interest in watching TV on their handsets." That might change with iPhone...

Mashable: Wordpress & Sproose Facebook Applications

"Wordpress has created a Facebook application that lets you post to your blog directly from Facebook, and access much of your blog content from Facebook as well."

AFP: Russia hits back at Britain with diplomat expulsions

Liberal Democratic party leader "Vladimir Zhirinovsky said Russia should expel 12 British diplomats and all British journalists in the country, telling one: "You are all agents for MI-6.'"

Spiegel Online: Neuer Besitzer: "Netzeitung" vor radikalem Kurswechsel

More on the possible changes to Germany's pioneering online newspaper, Netzeitug, since it was purchased by David Montgomery's investment vehicle.

Red Herring: Facebook Unlocks Parakey

First Facebook acquisition: a startup run by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, co-founders of the Mozilla Firefox open-source web browser. Ross and Hewitt will join Facebook’s development team.

Publishing 2.0: Should Newspapers Become Local Blog Networks?

"Blogs are now the organizing principle for newspapers’ original online content. ... The word 'blog' has way too much baggage — it’s too often equated with opinion. But a blog is just a content management system ...

reportr.net: An insight into how Google could shake-up television

According to Vincent Dureau, Google’s head of TV technology, "audience fragmentation is a good thing for advertising, if you apply Google thinking to the problem."

Variety: Out with the old, in with... nobody

US newspapers are phasing out television critics (via Jeff Jarvis).

AP: What if Murdoch doesn't get Dow Jones?

"The endgame for Dow Jones begins on Monday, when the controlling shareholders of the company, the Bancroft family, will receive a briefing on the outline of a $5 billion deal that Dow Jones' board signed off on Tuesday evening."

Eat the Press: Bye Bye, Brian: TVNewser Lays Down His Mighty Mouse

"TVNewser Brian Stelter has posted his final post, 15,470 entries in. It's the end of an era ... "

Internetjournalist.nl: Volkskrantblog publiceert echte namen VK-bloggers

De Volkskrant has accidentally published the real names of bloggers on its site ... as a result of a technical error as it launced two new sites...

Publishing 2.0: Memo to Google: Buy Yahoo!

Why should Google buy Yahoo? With the exception of search, Yahoo’s strengths map to Google’s weaknesses, almost precisely.

Threat Level: Ask to allow users to control data retention

"Ask.com announced Friday that it will allow search users to control how and whether their searches are recorded, marking the first time a major search company has modified their data retention policy to make it user controllable."

The American Prospect: Fear and Loathing in Middle America

"A new book in the Gonzo journalism vein tries to explain to coastal elites what they've never understood about the working-class small towns in the middle of the country."

901am: Chicagotribune.com relaunches

"Chicagotribune.com relaunched today with a bright, new look and additional features that enhance the user experience. The site is built on a new platform that is designed to better serve users in the broadband environment."

sueddeutsche.de: Weblog vs. Zeitung ''Wir brauchen Reporter''

Nicholas Lemann continues the bloggers vs.journalists thing in an interview with a German newspaper. "Bloggers may be journalists, but they are not reporters." Yawn.

The New York Review of Books: Goodbye to Newspapers?

Reviews of "When the Press Fails: Political Power and the New Media from Iraq to Katrina" and "American Carnival: Journalism Under Siege in an Age of New Media".

Times Online: Top footballers play non-dom tax game

Times reveals using FOI: "More than 300 top-flight footballers are avoiding millions of pounds of income tax by using loopholes that Gordon Brown pledged to close more than a decade ago."

John Naughton: However much is in your Facebook, it ain't a new Google

"Exponential growth does strange things to people. In most cases this involves abandoning common sense and any sense of perspective."

Croydon Advertiser: Ian Carter: Timing

"[W]henever anything happens in Croydon, it happens late on a Thursday afternoon. It's a really annoying trend at that - the timing means it misses the next day's Advertiser and we have to wait a week to put it in the paper."

What's Next: Innovations in Newspapers: The Sunday logo trend

Juan Antonio Giner: "Sunday neewspapers sell. And they sell more copies with editions where features rule over the news."

Manchester Evening News: The Party Animal: Anatomy of a story

David Ottewell: "I started this blog party to be accountable. I'm open to criticism, and I will respond. But don't suggest I'm claiming something that isn't true, unless you've checked your facts and come to me for a response. And be grateful that I would

Publishing 2.0: Newspaper Online vs. Print Ad Revenue: The 10% Problem

Scott Karp: The NY Times' "print circulation is about 10% of total audience reach, while online advertising revenue is 10% of total ad revenue — the economics are nearly the perfect inverse of what they should be."

The Inksniffer: Why print people need to get to grip with the shocking numbers at the heart of the online newspaper con

"8% of our revenue: 100% of our innovation effort" Really?

Press Gazette: Guardian investigators share BAE bribery exposé on the web

[David] Leigh says he considered writing a book, but Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger persuaded him "books are old thinking – let's do a website".

Invisible Inkling: Running for it: Covering an event with a cell phone and a point-and-shoot video camera

Ryan Sholin explains how he covered a local running race using video, Flickr, Twitter and a "a breaking news tumblelog".

Broadcastnow.co.uk: Sky News inks Jalipo deal

"Sky News is to be streamed on internet TV service Jalipo, giving users access to footage on a pay-per-minute model."

Shane Richmond: Help me find online journalism's must-read blog posts

Telegraph communities editor Shane Richmond is trying to assemble the essential reading list for online journalists.

Greenslade: A newsprint-loving, blogging editor regrets...

Some interesting comments on Ian Carter's recent post about the relationship between the print and online editions of the Croydon Advertiser...

: Guardian Technology Blog; Turn to Google Maps for flood updates

Bobbie Johnson looks at the flooding map made with Google Maps by BBC Berkshire's Ollie Williams.

Martin Moore Blog: Does the UK do 'tough media criticism'?

Ben Goldacre's recent criticism of the Observer was notable because it was so unusual; "self-criticism is not one of the UK media's strongest suits," says Moore.

PaidContent: Online Newspaper Audience Rising Twice As Fast As General Internet Population: Report

"Newspapers’ online audiences are rising at twice the rate of the general internet audience, according to research by Nielsen//NetRatings for the Newspaper Association of America."

LA Observed: Goldstein's killed column

Did the LA Times spike a column proposing that it should follow the Mail on Sunday's lead in giving away new music?

BBC Berkshire: Berkshire Floods 2007 (interactive flood map)

"The BBC Berkshire interactive flood map takes the best photos and video sent in by you to berkshire.online@bbc.co.uk, alongside reports from our correspondents around the county"

Wired: How Madison Avenue Is Wasting Millions on a Deserted Second Life

The backlash continues...

Publishing 2.0: Page Views And CPMs Are Suppressing Online Advertising Growth and Innovation

Scott Karp: "The biggest problem with page views/CPMs is that there could not be a more blunt, less nuanced metric for valuing online media."

Pew Research Center: Online Videos Go Mainstream

"The majority of adult internet users in the U.S. (57%) report watching or downloading some type of online video content and 19% do so on a typical day."

Online Journalism Blog: Online journalism’s must-read blog posts

Paul Bradshaw nominates 12 must-read blog posts aboout online journalism.

Reuters: Microsoft to provide advertising for Digg

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it reached an agreement to be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg.com

Press Gazette: Video clips: end of the roll for stills

"It is only a matter of time before paparazzi will be armed only with video cameras, believes Gary Morgan, co-founder of Britishowned US-based showbiz news agency Splash."

Guardian: Welcome to our new look site

Bobbie Johnson reports on the gradual relaunch of Guardian Unlimited: "The new platform uses Spring MVC to provide a Java-based web framework. The mainly open source products - Java, Apache, Linux, Resin, database tool Hibernate and templating engine Velo

Exact Editions: The Press Gazette beats the Postal Strike

"There is a post strike in the UK which may last a few weeks, or longer. The Press Gazette has decided to minimise the disruptive influence on subscribers by offering immediate online access to the next two issues through the Exact Editions platform."

turi2: Netzeitung, stern, Gessulat.

David Montgomery's new MD of Netzeitung has sacked the pioneering online newspaper's two top editors...

How-Do: MEN circulation expected to stay constant in latest ABCs

"MEN Media is forecasting that the latest six monthly ABC figures to be published in August will show the paper’s total circulation remaining constant at around 180,000, with paid for sales falling by just 6,000 since last December."

: Cheltenham Borough Council flood updates

Council uses blog for up-to-date flood relief news...

Complete Tosh, by Neil McIntosh: Covering a summer of floods

"At Guardian Unlimited, we're working flat out on a roll-out of our new video capabilities. But a story of this scale meant we simply had to send cameras out ahead of time."

Simon Dickson.: BBC iPlayer: old kit only

Simon Dickson can't use the BBC iPlayer: "Er, no: not on Vista, not on Firefox. I’ll try it all again later, when I find a slightly older PC."

Dadblog: The New Journalism, by some Old Journalists

Lloyd Shepherd: "There’s nothing quite like hearing very smart old-school journalists (you know, the ones who break big stories) saying very smart things about new forms of journalism. ..."

Freakonomics Blog: What an Honor, and It Only Costs $3,995

American Airlines’ “FORTUNE In-Flight Radio” Channel attempts to sell an interview slot to Freakonomics author Steven Levitt: "What?! This is not an interview request, this is a sales pitch!"

The Asian News: We're ten and we're changing

Editor Shelina Begum: "From now on we will be an online only publication dropping traditional newspaper form. ... sian News website is already one of the most successful in the MEN Media Group with 200,000 hits per month from 41,000 distinct visitors."

The FOIA blog: NY Post Columnist Wishes FOIA Request a Happy Birthday

"John Crudele's FOIA request has now entered into its second year of existence and he's throwing a birthday party for it."

Times Online: Giles Coren's restaurant reviews: The Frontline

"The one drag is that the Frontline is the open-to-the-public restaurant of the Frontline Club for war reporters, and, one or two good friends apart, I have never been a great fan of the species. They tend to be vainglorious bores..."

KentNews.co.uk: KOS launches new media dawn with yourkenttv.co.uk

"KOS ... plans to use WAP technology so people can have news sent straight to their mobile phones."

Comedy Central: Shows - The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Press Gazette web story sparks Jon Stewart item on New Zealand.

Robert Fisk: No wonder the bloggers are winning

"I despise the internet. It's irresponsible and, often, a net of hate. And I don't have time for Blogopops. But here's a tale of two gutless newspapers which explains why more and more people are Googling rather than turning pages."

AP: For YouTube, a System to Halt Copyright-Infringing Videos

"Google hopes technology will be in place in September to stop the posting of copyright-infringing videos on its YouTube site..."

Times Online: Is Google out to open a new frontier?

"Ofcom, the communications regulator, is preparing to auction three key pieces of the UK airwaves that will be left vacant after television’s digital switchover. At least two of those could be used for wireless broadband."

Vincent Maher - Media in Transition: Citizen Journalism of the UK floods? Really?

"Right, so now let’s take a look at the “citizen journalism” going on in the UK about the flooding...:" Not much, it seems...

Invisible Inkling: The innovation gap: Your advertising department could use a hand

Ryan Sholin says journalists are getting the Internet: "One problem. We forgot to bring the advertising department to the party."

Publishing 2.0: Online Publishers Need To Stop Selling Space

"Advertising in traditional media, whether newspapers, magazines, or TV, is all about selling a scare resource — space. The problem is that on the web there’s a nearly infinite amount of space."

BBC: BBC team make US Spanish journey

"This Saturday, I am setting off on a two-week long trip across the United States with a simple goal in mind: to only speak Spanish during the journey."

International Herald Tribune: British report criticizes U.S. on abductions

"The Intelligence and Security Committee Report on Rendition was completed and sent to Brown in late June. On Wednesday, the prime minister sent it to Parliament, and it thus became a public document, but has been largely overlooked by the media."

BBC: Deaths in US TV helicopter crash

"Journalists aboard the helicopter of a local Fox channel, KSAZ, said the two aircraft had been flying below two others from Channel 12 News and KPHO, a CBS affiliate, when they collided."

William M. Hartnett: Computer-assisted reporting jobs for everyone!

"It seems like there is an uncommonly high number of computer-assisted job openings at newspapers these days. (And by “uncommonly high” I mean “more than one.” It is a relatively small field, after all.)"

Peter Preston: Paperless newspapers are virtually a reality

"the British national papers most likely to let weakness be their eventual newsprint demise are also the most vestigial when it comes to net presence.... "

Steve Yelvington: R.I.P. ASAP

"U.S. newspapers are saddled with powerful brands that say all the wrong things to a changing marketplace. Yesterday's news, weak writing, poor storytelling."

Press Gazette: It's no con about the internet - deal with it

Simon Waldman: "Right now, if you want to add up daily readers and revenues, print wins by a long mile. But every piece of research tells the same story. People are spending less time with newspapers and more time online. The trend is, of course, particul

mbites: Turn Facebook statuses into a twitter feed?

Ooooh. Compounding the pointlessness. Nice. (As long as Facebook doesn't give you a feed of news items including things pulled in by the Twitter app, you're not in danger of creating an infinite loop...)

ComputerWeekly.com: Government IT disposal poses security breach risk

"Some 70% of central government departments do not check that data has been wiped from IT equipment they are disposing of, exposing them to potential security breaches, a ­report released yesterday by the National Audit Office has found."

Chris Harrison: ClusterBall: Visualising Wikipedia

A visualisation of the link structure of Wikipedia.

Language Log: Thou shalt not report odds ratios

"I'd like to suggest that any journalist who reports an odds ratio as if it were a relative risk should be fired sent back to school." (via -- who else -- Ben Goldacre)

Netzeitung: «Bild» will online Marktführer werden

The redtop Bild wants its portal, Bild.T-Online, to overtake market leader Spiegel Online as Germany's leading news site. Handelsblatt reports Bild is planing online versions of its regional editions.

PJNet Today: Phil Meyer to Retire, New Knight Chair Sought

Phil Meyer ... the Knight Chair at the University of North Carolina ... will retire next year. The professorship will be expanded to embrace digital change and economic models for 21st century journalism.

Blogcast: Mobile TV sector facing crisis

"[S]pecialist producers are not downhearted at the demise of [BT] Movio, as other forms of mobile video content are providing hope and revenues."

Shane Richmond: Why the internet is not always Right

Richmond on Fisk's outburst: "'Robert,' a brave sub editor might have said, 'the internet is just a means of transferring data. It can't be responsible or irresponsible.'"

Martin Moore Blog: Menwith Hill - thank goodness someone noticed

"It's the silly season and the media are more interested in the threat of Great White sharks off Cornwall than they are geopolitics and Russian missiles."

Virtual Economics: AP and Asap

Seamus McCauley: "For news consumers, news fulfils a number of discrete functions that traditionally happen to be packaged up as a newspaper or broadcast. ... "

BuzzMachine: Sustaining journalism through innovation

Jeff Jarvis: "I would have thrown another requirement on Project Red Stripe or any media company’s innovation incubator: that they start a sustainable — that is, profitable — business."

Reuters Blogs: Banks try, but can’t block Facebook

Banks are denying access to Facebook "because of concerns employees spend too much time on it, Financial News reported. Still, nearly 20 percent of Goldman’s employees are members of the Goldman-only network on Facebook, the publication said."

The Huffington Post: The Devil You Know

Lauren Rich Fine on the Dow Jones deal: "Newspapers need to reinvent themselves both online and off and accept that future returns will be much lower. Difficult decisions need to be made such as acknowledging that a paper can't be everything to everyone."

Media Week: Soutar unveils details of new men's free ShortList

"Mike Soutar's new free men's magazine, codenamed Alpha One, is to be called ShortList and will hit the streets on Thursday 20 September, Media Week can reveal."

AP: Group to Deliver Bibles With Newspapers

"Everything from detergent to computer discs is packaged with the Sunday newspaper. So why not Bibles?"

Independent.ie: O'Brien raises stake in INM

"Denis O'Brien has raised his stake in Independent News & Media ... to 9.08 [per cent]"

OJR: How newspapers can thrive on the World Wide Web

Robin 'Roblimo' Miller, editor in chief for OSTG, owner of Slashdot, NewsForge, freshmeat, Linux.com, SourceForge.net, and the ecommerce site ThinkGeek, looks at how newspapers can turn their "brand recognition into local online information dominance."

Christian Science Monitor: Our reporter's night in a Lebanese jail

CSM correspondent Nicholas Blanford recounts his night in a Lebanese military jail following an encounter with Hizbulla. (Nice embedded audio, too)

The Bivings Report: Gannett Rolling Out New Design for Local News Sites

The Desert Sun site from Palm Springs, California is one of the first sites to get the facelift [being rolled out to Gannett sites in the US]

TheyWorkForYou.com: BBC: Middle East: 26 Jul 2007: Written answers

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make it his policy to request the BBC to publish the Balen report. James Purnell: No. The decision on whether to release the Balen report is a matter for the BBC.

Times Online: Newspaper ad execs must target wealth of online readers overseas

An commentary on Neil Thurman's paper on US readers of UK online newspapers by Rhys Blakely of the Times: "There is an opportunity here for British papers to become lucrative, global brands."

Vin Crosbie: The Press Will Be Outsourced Before Stopped

"The real problem, Mr. Newspaperman, isn't that your content isn't online or isn't online with multimedia. It's your content. Specifically, it's what you report, which stories you publish, and how you publish them to people, who, by the way, have very dif

Revolution: Independent signs up to monthly ABCe audit

The Independent has joined the other quality newspaper titles in publishing its monthly ABCe audit.

paidContent.org: If WSJ.com Was Set Free: The Numbers At Stake

"Everyone and their mother in law has numbers proving one side or the other: whether making WSJ.com fully open, ad-supported instead of subscription makes sense or not."

paidContent.org: Interview: Gordon Crovitz, Publisher, WSJ & President, DJ Consumer Media Group

Crovitz on WSJ.com going free: "So far, our analysis says the way to maximize revenues and earnings is to have a mixed model."

How-Do: Asian News closes print edition

Theasiannews.co.uk will now be MEN Media’s first purely digital publication.

Journalism.co.uk: WAN chairman welcomes a search engine into the ACAP project - but not the big one he wanted

Exalead, a French search engine involved in the Quaero project, has joined up with ACAP. Google and Yahoo are no doubt trembling.

Iain Dale's Diary: Are Some UK Bloggers Close to Giving Up The Day Job?

Iain Dale, Guido, and Conservative Home now claim about half the traffic levels of the smallest national newspaper web sites...

IDG News Service: Google's Associated Press licensing deal short on results

"One year after Google acknowledged signing a licensing deal with The Associated Press to launch new Google features and services, the promised offerings haven't been delivered."

Virtual Economics: More news aggregation

Seamus McCauley yawns at Newer: "Vin Crosbie's most recent manifesto... once more points out that the issue with online news is not at the presentation level but the content level. Lumping that content together in yet another new way".

Strange Attractor: Let's get ready to rumble

Kevin Anderson: "My question to Sky News or any news organisation for that matter: Do you want an online community or fight club?"

The Argus: Sussex Hit By Internet Crimewave

"Sussex is in the grip of a high-tech crimewave with dozens of eBay customers being targeted by criminals every month."

Wordblog: Million homeless in floods 16 seconds: Fewer dead in bridge disaster 3m 18s

BBC’s judgment on the 10 o’clock News: Floods in Asia leave 1m homeless and at least 175 dead (16 seconds). Reduced deaths in Minneapolis bridge collapse follow-up (3 minutes 18 seconds).

BBC News: Tools we are using

Jose Baig and Carlos Ceresole are using a blog, Flickr, Facebook, Skype to report across the Spanish-speaking US for BBC Mundo

Will Sullivan's Journerdism: Are you and your news site ready for your local armageddon?

If the equivalent of the Minnesota bridge collapse happened at your local newspaper, would you be ready?

Editor & Publisher: JetBlue and 'NYT' Announce Exclusive In-Flight Video Magazine

JetBlue Airways and The New York Times have announced the launch of “Times on Air,” an exclusive in-flight video magazine.

MediaGuardian.co.uk: 'Fake Steve Jobs' blogger outed

"The New York Times yesterday names Forbes technology editor, Daniel Lyons, as Fake Steve Jobs. Lyons praised the sleuthing skills of NYT reporter Brad Stone for tracking him down"

New York Times Blogs: Bits: The Trial of Fake Steve Jobs

The evidence...

On The Media: Measuring the Web

OTM looks at Nielsen/Netratings recent decision to focus on time-based web metrics. Abbey Klassen, of Advertising Age says web metrics are more valuable for publishers than advertisers.

Uxbridge Gazette: Adrian Seal Blog: Doom and gloom

" I have also been looking closely at which stories attract the most hits on our website and once again it's doom and gloom that generally prove the most popular."

Project Badger Blog: Page Not Found

Wot's this? Project badger hiding the fact that their next site is called "London is Free"?

London is Free: Your guide to free events in the capital

Ooooh... structured blogging. Clever stuff.

Online Media Cultist: Child Birth Goes 2.0

"Apparently some way-into-web 2.0 dude live twittered during the birth of his child and then posted the pictures to Flickr." Why?

Britannica Blog: Are Americans Bad Newspaper Editors?

J.E. Luebering: "In the aftermath of Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of Dow Jones and, with it, the Wall Street Journal, one of his former employees declared American journalism in need of Anglo-Australian editorial discipline."

Slate: Rudy Giuliani's daughter is supporting Barack Obama

Facebook profile scoop for Slate...

HTFP: Magazine man sets up local internet TV station

"Regional news magazine publisher Steve Egginton has launched a new internet on-demand TV channel, Mendip TV."

AP: WSJ editor says Murdoch's buyout won't affect China coverage

"Rupert Murdoch's takeover of The Wall Street Journal will not affect its coverage of China, the newspaper's editor said Tuesday."

BBC Radio Five Live: Pods and Blogs: Pods and Blogs first Podcast

Pods and Blogs now available as a podcast. About time, too. A great programme broadcast at an unsocial hour demands timeshifting. I just hope it's not one of those BBC "trials".

The Inksniffer: Big audio dynamite: How newspapers can kill the radio star (or how to read your newspaper while driving to work)

The Economist's audio edition "is revolutionary because of the way it undermines radio. ... What "iPod News Radio" in this form does is make radio into a something that feels like a newspaper."

William M. Hartnett: Newspaper offices in Google Maps Street View

Eyeballing newspaper buildings using Google Maps.

Google News Blog: Perspectives about the news from people in the news

"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."

Virtual Economics: What newspapers don't do

A great post about outsourcing at newspapers.

CNET News.com: New York Times to ax premium online content, rival says

"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 Observer: The New York Times Gets Freakonomicky With It

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

Read/Write Web: New Google News Feature Feels "Web 1.0"

"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."

Marketing Week: Ridding speaks up for FT

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."

Press Gazette: Trinity Mirror hints at more hyperlocal titles

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

Amateur Photographer: Getty: Photojournalism is not dead news

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

Journalistopia: Visualize your news graphics’ possibilities

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

SearchEngineLand: Q&A On The New Google News Comments

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.

Micro Persuasion: Google News Now Has Feedback, Editing and More Risk

"te move is even more significant because it turns Google News into an editorial product rather than simply an aggregator. The Google News team now makes decisions about what responses go up and what gets left behind. Think about that."

Dadblog: Google News: war is declared

Lloyd Shepherd: "if I owned a newspaper which created a lot of original content and which had built up a big core audience, I’d certainly be asking questions about whether it was worthwhile my content appearing on Google News anymore."

Simon Dickson: If Google News really wants my comments...

Simon Dickson: "Far from building a business on other people’s content, Google News (surely?) acts as a generator of extra traffic for those very news publishers. But this changes things quite dramatically."

Los Angeles Times: Homicide Map

Interactive map of homocide victims in Los Angeles, based on county coroner data and Times research.

E-Media Tidbits: Google News Adds "Comments," Kinda...

Tish Grier: "Reality check: These days, even the big-time newspapers of record don't hire enough experienced moderators to manage their own flow of comments."

Reuters: News Corp may sell Dow Jones's local papers

Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday that the company probably will sell Dow Jones local U.S. newspapers after buying the publisher.

Reuters: News Corp undecided on making WSJ.com free

"Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday that the company is looking closely at granting free access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site, but has not decided yet."

Reuters: Green group withdraws bid for BSkyB climate campaign

"Friends of the Earth said on Thursday it had withdrawn a controversial bid to become a charity partner of BSkyB."

paidContent.org: New York Times.com Hooks Up With Freakonomics Blog

"As of Wednesday, Freakonomics.com redirects to a dedicated space in the Online Opinion section and has its own editor, Melissa Lafsky (hired away from Huffington Post)."

901am: Perfect 10 sues Microsoft for copyright infringement

"Perfect 10, Inc. announced that it has filed an action against Microsoft for copyright infringement, relating to Microsoft’s operation of its MSN search engine, after attempts at settlement failed. Perfect 10 is currently in litigation against Google a

Journalism.co.uk: BBC World Service conducts multimedia-reporting experiment in the US

More on the BBC Mundo multi-media, social media reporting triip across the United States.

Virtual Economics: Outsourcing verification

Seamus McCauley: "My tentative conclusion was that newspapers' core value is in verification - in deciding what to print on the basis of whether it is (verifiably) true."

Joe Murphy: How to fight Google’s article commenting plan

Possible effects on newspapers: (1) More people look to Google first for news (2) More 'newsmakers' turn to Google for news (3) reduced credibility (4) Google builds up contacts book of news sources.

Google Maps Mania: Google Maps mashup of 700,000 US bridges

David Lord's Bridge Map mashup displays 700,000 bridges by combining the National Bridge Inventory database found on the US Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration website with Google Maps.

Daily Mail: Under-fire Speaker 'Gorbals Mick' hires top libel firm at public expense

"The Speaker of the House of Commons has spent thousands of pounds of public money employing a law firm to defend him from criticism."

O'Reilly Radar: New Media and Journalism

Peter Brantley: "[Recent journalism grad Kara Andrade''s] work ... is innovative, almost fearless in its use of social software and new media, and covers interesting subjects. Most recently, Kara created a conversation about "God, Sex, and Family" in Seco

BusinessWeek: The Case for Freeing the WSJ Online

"Ever the risk-taker, Rupert Murdoch may be planning to gamble the newspaper's significant Web subscription revenues on the growing Internet ad market"

Channel 4 News: MoD gags bloggers, blocks YouTube

"The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has introduced new guidelines which will prevent members of the armed forces from using blogs, or posting video footage on the internet."

Journalisten: Fagblad for medlemmer af Dansk Journalistforbund

I'm jealous. I wish my site was built in Drupal.

Newspaper Next: Databases help you become the source for answers

"One of the most encouraging signs that media companies understand the expanded role they need to play is the growing use of databases to provide answers about communities"

OrlandoSentinel.com: Interactive Map: Proposed red-light camera locations

"Click the points on the map to see the locations of where the city of Orlando plans to place cameras to catch and fine red-light running motorists."

The Long Tail: Wired's Long Tail web strategy: the Three Cs

"One of the questions I get most often is how I apply the Long Tail strategy to my day job of running Wired...:

The Observer: Net closes in as glossy magazines lose their lustre

'It's all about digital now,' says one [magazine company executive]. 'This ABC period marks a sea change in how magazine companies attend to digital.'

CJR: Prisoner 345

What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj

AP: NZ Papers Outsource Editorial Production

"New Zealand Newspaper publisher APN News & Media began outsourcing editorial production work Sunday, a strategy being watched by media outlets in other countries"

One Man & His Blog: Blogging is IT, not Journalism?

A strange assumption Adam Tinworth faces when teaching journalists about blogs: "blogs=IT", which is a bit like "magazines=printing press".

Pew Research Center: Summary of Findings: Internet News Audience Highly Critical of News Organizations

"some of the harshest indictments of the press now come from the growing segment that relies on the internet as its main source for national and international news."

Runupums: Final thoughts

Parting shots from an ex-hack, including these wise words: "Journalists report facts, not truth. Why? Because if you can read this you're literate, if you're literate you can decide the truth for yourself."

Los Angeles Times: Newspapers are changing to suit readers' tastes

"The quality British papers, particularly in their online editions, are much farther down the road toward what looks like the future of newspaper journalism, one that places a much higher premium on analysis and opinion than do serious American newspapers

Sunday Herald: Metro Goes North As Part Of Major Expansion

"Metro is set to launch in Dundee and Perth in the next few weeks as part of a major expansion around the UK. ... [T]otal daily distribution of the free paper is set to rise from 1.1 million to 1.35m copies as every UK edition is beefed up."

New York Times: New British Men’s Magazine, but No Nudity, Please

Mike Soutar's no-nudity pledge for Shortlist "reflects a minor revolution in the men’s magazine business in Britain, a proving ground for the “lads’ mag” phenomenon of the 1990s. The formula — a lowbrow blend of bare-breasted B-listers and bawdy

FT.com: ISPs warn BBC over new iPlayer service

ISPs "are warning they may have to restrict customers’ access to the BBC’s new iPlayer service unless the corporation contributes to the cost of streaming videos over the internet."

The Journalism Iconoclast: Video does not equal new media

Pat Thornton: "Reporting the news with video isn’t exactly new. So, why would throwing some random video on your Web site all the sudden make you new media? It wouldn't."

MediaGuardian.co.uk: Will Congress shield the media?

"Indeed, US reporters might fare better in Britain. Both the Contempt of Court Act and European rights laws acknowledge the right to protect sources."

New York Times: A Filing by Gannett Has Set Off Alarms, and Reassurances -

"On Thursday, [Gannett] filed papers with the [SEC] that included a new change-of-control plan, one that would accelerate payments to top executives in the event of a corporate takeover."

Mediaweek (US): Gannett to Unveil 100 Local Mobile Sites

"Gannett, owner of 84 daily newspapers and 23 TV stations, announced Friday the launch of 100 [WAP] mobile sites of breaking news, sports, weather and other local information ... produced by Gannett Information Centers."

New York Times: Names in the News Get a Way to Respond

"Media professionals characterized it less charitably as an effort by engineers who do not understand the impracticalities of such a project on a large scale — for instance, how do you verify a source’s identity or screen for inaccurate statements?"

Virtual Economics: Why newspapers are not screwed

Seamus McCauley takes issue with Henry Blodget's newsprint-is-doomed analysis.

Online Journalism Blog: Guest blogger Jack Templeton on being a print news reporter-cum-online consultant

Student Online Journalist of the Year Jack Templeton,now at The News & Star, guest posts for Paul Bradshaw's Online Journalism Blog about "how he won a unique position as a print news reporter-cum-online consultant"

One Man & His Blog: Journalists Need To Ask Stupid Questions

The cliché I learned was "the only stupid question is the one you don't ask" -- this certainly applies to journalist Bob Keefe, who is currently being eviscerated by the Mac fanboy community for asking a perfectly reasonable question.

Los Angeles Times: Murdoch taking aim at N.Y. Times

"Analysts see Murdoch cutting rates and the newsstand cost, which rose last month to $1.50 from $1, even though he declared during the conference call that he would not engage in "any price war.""

BBC: Teenager sues over porn picture

"A teenage photographer is suing a US porn film company for damages after it used a photo of her aged 14 on the front cover of one of its DVDs."

New York Magazine: 'Metro' Columnist Elliott Kalan Fired for Declaring Newspapers Dead

Daily Show producer sacked from New York Metro column for writing: “Nobody reads newspapers anymore … As this very copy of Metro shows, the only way to get most people to read a newspaper is to literally force it into their hands.”

Inside Higher Ed: New Media Meets Campus Media

"journalism education is lagging behind industry in embracing the new media technologies that students will need to be competitive in the work place, according to a paper presented Friday."

Brand Republic: ABC investigates magazine data leak

"The Audit Bureau of Circulations has launched an investigation into how magazine circulation data became publicly available a week before it was due for official release."

Invisible Inkling: Why shoot newspaper video?

Ryan Sholin say tehre are two camps on newspaper video strategy: "BiggerBetter" vs "FasterMore". Pat Thornton comments: most are only doing "occasional junk".

Mashable: Google Offers Easy Embed Code for Maps

"Looks like there’s an easily embeddable Google Maps feature that will be launching in about a week. The feature was unveiled at Google Australia."

currybetdotnet: Alt tags reveal what is on the Daily Mail's mind about child sex offenders

Online subbing goof at the Daily Mail ...

BtoB Magazine: ‘WSJ’ posts 7.2% drop in ad revenue in July

Dow Jones & Co., which is being acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., reported late Monday that ad revenue for its flagship Wall Street Journal fell 7.2% in July on a 20.9% decrease in advertising volume.

Christian Science Monitor: Fee content vs. free content

"The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times may drop pay-to-read content. But online ad revenue alone won't cut it."

Web 2.Oh. . .really?: Proposed: Death to Bylines

Washington Post man Craig Stoltz: "At a time when newspapers must reinvent themselves as New Media, it’s an ideal moment to do away with bylines."

Snarkmarket: Make RSS Work Again

"AideRSS is a Godsend. It analyzes the activity around each item in an RSS feed — Technorati hits, comments, Del.icio.us links, traffic reports, etc. — and calculates a score for the item."

ZDNet.com: The Social Web: Bebo overtakes MySpace in the UK

"Comscore data for July reveals that Bebo is now the number one visited social networking site in the UK, overtaking MySpace. Sitting in third place is Facebook. "

Sky News: Red Carpet Treatment In Second Life

Non-sk8er boi Jon Gripton recounts an unsuccessful attempt to interview Avril Lavigne in Second Life for Sky News.

Organ Grinder: Is Second Life just hype?

Question marks in a headline usually mean "No". Probably not in this case, though.

Publish2 Blog: Introducing Publish2

Publish2 is a social network and 2.0 platform for journalists (and independent “news bloggers,” “citizen” journalists, student journalists, i.e. ALL journalists, BROADLY defined), which aims to put journalists at the center of news aggregation on

MiamiHerald.com: Property Taxes: How do you compare?

"Search addresses in Miami-Dade and Broward counties and discover how the proposed property tax rates will affect real people. See how your taxes compare to your neighbors."

CNET News.com: Fox Internet group to manage TV station sites

"News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media said on Wednesday it will develop and manage Web sites of Fox television station affiliates. ... These stations will use custom developed "MyFOX" sites"

: Andy Bull

"We tell the postgrads on the PMA magazine course that their blog is read by the industry, but they never quite believe us. How handy, then, that Press Gazette's Axegrinder should pick up on Tori Hunt's blog account of a talk given to the students by an N

BBC News: Bluetooth helps Facebook friends

"Bath University scientists have created a tool which can use the unique ID of Bluetooth devices, like a mobile phone, to build new friendship networks."

CNET News.com: CNET reporters sue HP for invasion of privacy

"The fallout from Hewlett-Packard's boardroom leak scandal continued Wednesday as three CNET News.com reporters sued the computer maker, alleging that its investigation tactics amounted to an invasion of privacy and a violation of state rules on business

globeandmail.com: Is Wikipedia becoming a hub for propaganda?

WikiScanner "shows that computers inside [Canada's] federal government offices are responsible for more than 11,000 changes to articles"

Guardian Unlimited: Technology Blog: Why newspapers are screwed by Google

Interesting roundup of the debate stirred up by Henry Blodge's post "Why Newspapers Are Screwed".

Telegraph Blogs: Holy Smoke: BBC's flagrant hypocrisy over Wiki edits

"The BBC website was crowing mightily yesterday about evidence suggesting that the CIA was involved in editing Wikipedia entries. But what the report didn’t mention – of course – is that the BBC also seems to have been heavily involved in editing Wi

Mashable: BBC Adds Buttons for Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon

Only about a year late: "Late yesterday the BBC added social bookmarking buttons to all its news stories".

Complete Tosh, by Neil McIntosh: A journalism student writes...

"Again, for those at the back: if you think you want to be a journalist, I now don't think there's any excuse not to have a blog. The closer you get to looking around for jobs, the better it should be maintained."

currybetdotnet: Is Britain's brightest A-Level student a boy or an anonymous photogenic teenage girl?

"This one is as regular as clockwork on the currybet.net site - the A-Level results come out, and I start moaning about the depressing and sexist coverage of it"

Web 2.Oh. . .really?: Bylines’ Second Life

"I should have been clearer: I wish death upon only the single-author byline. All content, whether packaged as a rich multimedia experience or a simple conventional report, should be clearly marked with the names of the team members responsible."

New Media Knowledge: Content Still King

"US trade body the Online Publisher’s Association has introduced new metrics to account for consumers’ behaviour online. Initial results show that content sites account for nearly half of consumers’ time, with that proportion rising on a monthly bas

Independent: The slow death of the magazine

Ian Reeves explains the ABC figures: "the total circulation figure of the [top] 100 [actively purchased magazines] is just 24 million - that's a full 20 per cent down."

CNET News.com: It takes an iVillage

"After it bought the Web site iVillage.com last year for $600 million, NBC Universal bragged that it had landed a digital darling. ... Few people at NBC Universal are boasting about iVillage now."

Screenwerk: CleanScores Enhances Local Restaurant Results

"CleanScores is attempting to aggregate and disseminate public health department data in major metro areas in the U.S. through a destination site but also syndicate its data to third-party local search sites."

geobloggers: Oakland Crimespotting … Sexy map thing

Yet another crime map mashup. A particularly nice one.

Brand Republic: Zoo website visitor figures climb 37% in four months

"Emap's Zoo magazine website has seen a big increase in unique users from 524,922 in March to 718,486 in July, according to official ABCe figures."

Shane Richmond: Journalism's essential blogposts

The essential reading list of journalism-related blog posts.

PA: Journalist Lord Deedes dies aged 94

Veteran journalist Lord [Bill] Deedes has died, the Telegraph Media Group said.

Telegraph.co.uk: Lord Deedes

"Lord Deedes, who has died aged 94, was a Cabinet minister from 1962 to 1964, and editor of the The Daily Telegraph from 1974 to 1986"

Editor & Publisher: Top 30 [US news] Web Sites for July Traffic

"The New York Times again tops newspaper Web sites in terms of traffic for July, according to the latest data from Nielsen//Net Ratings."

CNET News.com: Share news stories without permission, get fined?

"he Software Information & Industry Association (SIIA) on Thursday announced a $300,000 truce with a California-based market research company called Knowledge Networks over the company's distribution of "press packets" containing copyrighted news articles

OhmyNews International: Oh! This is OhmyNews

[Video] A virtual tour of OhmyNews office

Los Angeles Times: It's not journalism

The Google News comments feature "won't help readers separate the factual wheat from the public-relations chaff -- a reminder that Google may strive to be the world's index, but it's not journalism."

Online Journalism Review: The L.A. Times tells its readers: 'Shut up'

"Why ... is The [LA] Times attacking this technology which would plug holes in stories, correct mistaken impressions, enable readers to ask questions of reporters and provide a check on reporting flaws?"

gapingvoid: blogging isn't dead, it's just a subset of something much larger and more important

"Blogging isn't for everybody, Web 2.0 is for everybody". ... blogging is really just part of the wider phenomenon of lowered barriers to entry in publishing.

Guardian Unlimited Arts: The Bourne Ultimatum

Guardian review of Bourne Ultimatum leads on ... the Guardian: "How gratifying to see this paper finally being shown in an exciting and glamorous light - in this third movie in the Bourne franchise."

Tech Digest: 13 tech-related product placements in The Bourne Ultimatum

Tech Digest counts the Graun as a product placement in Bourne Ultimatum: "Scenes are shot in the offices, the Guardian editor is shown, and Bourne is even seen reading a copy of the newspaper and spies his own name in it."

Subtraction: This Way to the Web, Print Designers!

"[T]here’s no point in learning these skills unless as a print designer you’ve made a prior shift in your understanding of how design works in digital media."

BuzzMachine: Just kidding?

Jeff Jarvis: "I say Google is the new newsstand. It is a way to be found and read. It is a reporting tool. It is a presentation tool (with maps and such). It is now a means of continuing the journalistic process by getting response and with it more viewpo

Web Worker Daily: Blog Archive Woo Them with Words: Hunting for the Hit Headline «

"After a quick scan of some of the sites on the web with advice on headlines, I didn’t see some of my favorite tips, so I’m compiling several of them here"

Radar: Inside Cryptome, the website the CIA doesn't want you to see

Radar magazine profiles John Young, the "71-year-old architect, spy buff, and proprietor of the Cryptome web site, decribed by William Arkin as "the Google of national security."

Independent on Sunday: Beware the onward march of citizen journalism

Ignore the non sequitur in the headline, this is actually a pretty interesting article: the Press Complaints Commission and Society of Editors say newspaper sites adhering to the PCC code offers a sort of kitemark for quality content online.

Sunday Herald: Madeleine Coverage Is Merely Overblown News Says Author

"The disappearance of Madeleine McCann is part of a wave of overblown television news stories that would sit better as a blockbuster novel, prize-winning author Lionel Shriver has claimed."

Observer: It gets scoops. It makes money. What more must the Mirror do?

"The Mirror alone contributed around £70m of the group's pre-tax profits of £185m last year, according to sources, but circulation continues to fall - declining by over 6 per cent year-on-year in July, and Bailey seems to have few ideas about how best t

Observer: Can the FT fight off Murdoch's marauders?

"The FT can paint itself as a niche brand, but the reality is that it competes head-to-head with the WSJ across Europe and Asia. Until now, it has won that battle because the WSJ has lacked the wit and resource to challenge it. Murdoch will change that, f

: Sullr

Reverse telephone directory for USA, France, Italy, Belgium and Argentina.

ZDNet: Berlind's Testbed: Get ready for the ‘Twitterization’ of mainstream media

David Berlind: "Like blogging, I see Twitter more as a disruptive Web publishing tool with ramifications to existing media business processes than I do as a way to find out when and where my friends are going to lunch and how much indigestion it gave them

Advertising Age: With Magazine Shuttered, Stuff Publisher Leaves New Boss

"[John] Lumpkin joins 18 other Stuff employees who lost their jobs this week when Alpha Media decided to close the magazine and concentrate on the Maxim and Blender magazines and brands."

Interactive in Milwaukee: Chicago Tribune Goes Local

The Chicago Tribune is reverse publishing user-submitted content from the triblocal.com web sites develop two weekly print newspapers for Chicago suburbs.

Publishing 2.0: Journalism Is Now A Continuous Dynamic Process, Not A Static Product

Scott Karp: "the Web is not a static medium, and therefore journalism on the Web is not static — it is a dynamic process that never ends. That’s why the LA Times is wrong to argue that the new comment feature of Google News is not journalism."

Journalistopia: L.A. Times editorial board decries Google News comments

The Times is offended by the notion that the people who contribute comments to Google News will be making them “unedited.” ... This is exactly the kind of idiotic hubris that causes the public to hate journalists and, by extension, the journalism they

Center for Citizen Media: Another Gross Journalistic Failure

Dan Gillmor: In a story about how institutions failed to heed signs of the impeding US mortgage crisis, the New York Times "fails to add one of the most culpable institutions of all: the press."

Mail on Sunday: Undercover Mirror journalist exposed as she tries to infiltrate Tory Party

"Emily Miller, 25, who claimed to work for a charity that helps Indian children, applied for a £40,000-a-year job as assistant to Conservative Party chairman Caroline Spelman."

Greenslade: Daily Mirror's Tory infiltration is unacceptable

"This was nothing more than a fishing expedition in the hope of turning up something embarrassing. It's a newspaper equivalent of Watergate, an underhand and unacceptable piece of trickery without any journalistic merit."

Steve Yelvington: When local newspapers aren't local

"It seems obvious that "regional" is bigger than "local," and "local" is bigger than "hyperlocal." It's not so clear where the lines are."

MediaGuardian.co.uk: We're all doomed to be surprised

Alan Rusbridger: "I don't think either [iPhone or iRex] represents the iPod moment for newspapers. But it feels to me as if it won't be too long before there is a relatively mass market device on which reading a newspaper (and watching it and listening to

New York Times: Ad Growth for AOL Called Vital to a Remake

"Just over a year ago, AOL unveiled a radical plan to remake itself into a business built on advertising from one driven by Internet access subscriptions. ... A] precipitous slowdown in advertising growth has raised new questions about AOL’s transformat

New York Times: For Media Columnist, Everywhere He Turns It’s More Murdoch

Michael Wolff, the media columnist for Vanity Fair, landed an advance in the high six figures from Doubleday for a biography of Rupert Murdoch.

theage.com.au: Facebook labelled a $5b waste of time

"Richard Cullen of SurfControl, an internet filtering company, estimates [Facebook] may be costing Australian businesses $5 billion a year."

Los Angeles Times: Blogs: All the noise that fits

Michael Skube makes an arguement we've all heard before: "The hard-line opinions on weblogs are no substitute for the patient fact-finding of reporters." Yawn.

PressThink: My advice? Retire.

Jay Rosen can't take it anymore. He tells Michael Skube "Retire, man. I’m serious. You’re an embarrassment to my profession, to the university where you teach, and to the craft of reporting you claim to defend." Wow.

Romenesko: Intern felt "dirty" posing as a reader on magazine's blogs

Nick McCarvel, an intern at a national magazine in the US, writes to the New York Times' ethics column about being asked to pose as a reader on the magazine's blogs. "That felt dirty to me. Advice?"

Reuters: Mecom to buy its way to number three in Germany

"Mecom is looking for further potential acquisitions in Germany's fragmented newspaper industry as it aims for the number three spot among the country's newspaper publishers."

The Huffington Post: Tennis Mag Intern Feels "Dirty" About Posing As Commentator

Well, that didn't take long: "A quick turn on Google indicated it was Tennis magazine,"

New York Times: Barry Bonds Tops Home Run Charts

Barry Bonds' career home run total visualised and compared to other players.

tehmina.org: Network Rail and Freedom of Information

"An e-petition to 10 Downing Street is requesting that Network Rail be designated a public authority so that people may request information from it under the Freedom of Information Act."

Lost Remote: Facebook goes hyperlocal with Neighborhoods

"About three weeks ago, a new third-party application from Point2 called Neighborhoods made its debut on Facebook, and it’s very impressive. Already in Seattle, 1,200 users have selected their neighborhoods..."

Editor & Publisher: Spanish-language Publisher ImpreMedia Partners With BBC Online Site

"ImpreMedia, the biggest publisher of Spanish-language newspapers in the United States, Tuesday kicked off a content initiative with BBC's Spanish-language Web site with an online discussion about the impact of Spanish on American culture."

New York Times: Google Aims to Make YouTube Profitable With Ads

"The ads, which appear 15 seconds after a user begins watching a video clip, take the form of an overlay on the bottom fifth of the screen, not unlike the tickers that display headlines during television news programs."

Broadcastnow.co.uk: C4 News airs escape from North Korea

"Channel 4 News will air a special report on North Korea tonight which will document a family's escape from the totalitarian state for the first time on television."

Martin Moore Blog: A pandemic of drunkenness or statistics designed to make a story?

"Many of our clients" the company says candidly, "use OnePoll to trigger high impact media coverage". "Our team of national news journalists and PR experts know what the media will use".

Times Online: Three-way split may be best way out for Emap

"Emap is cracking on with an auction of its three constituent parts, which if it goes according to plan will see Heat and its other magazines split off from Kiss, Magic and the company’s other radio brands, and the business publishing arm."

contentious.com: Why Feed Readers and Public Comments are Cornerstone Skills

Amy Gahran: "The most effective, lasting way to adapt your online-media mindset, habits, and priorities is to actually use these skills — not just know about them in a theoretical sense…"

MediaShift: Google News Comments a 'Fabulous Step Forward'

"While I applaud Google News for trying to do something to add to the voices connected to news stories — especially wire stories — there are still a lot of “ifs” related to the feature."

Google News Blog: Would you like video with that?

"For our initial launch, we have included several top news sources such as CBS, Reuters, and a number of local Hearst TV stations. Over the next few months, we'll continue to add new sources as fast as we can. Right now we're just offering this addition i

Publishing 2.0: Embedded Video On Google News Is Just Another YouTube Distribution Channel

Scott Karp: "The inclusion of videos on Google News pages — which can be played via YouTube embeds right on the page, without leaving Google News — can be a valuable distribution channel for video content producers."

I’m Simon Dickson: More twittering at Sky News

Simon Dickson wonders: "if a news organisation spotted someone tweeting about a news event, is it ethical (or indeed sensible?) for them to republish the stream on their own pages?"

FT.com: Interactive Feature: Scramble for the Arctic

"FT.com’s interactive feature maps the estimated 233bn barrels of oil equivalent, and illustrates the region with a picture slideshow and audio narration by experts."

Daily Mail: Newscaster Emily Maitlis offends BBC viewers with flash of leg

The Daily Mail has a Victorian flashback: "Although she was wearing a relatively demure navy skirt-suit, Miss Maitlis's flash of shapely calf caused a stir among more conservative viewers who saw the 9pm trailer on Monday."

New Matilda: Blogs To You!

Guardian blogs editor Kevin Anderson fleshes out his line that "blogging is not a publishing strategy, it’s a community strategy"

Reuters: Mondadori denies interest in Emap's magazines

"Italian publisher Mondadori denied any interest in Emap's consumer magazines on Wednesday after The Times newspaper said it had expressed interest in the publisher of Grazia and FHM."

Fortune: The online numbers game

"Measuring web traffic is far from an exact science, and that's a big problem for online advertisers ... "

Matt Waite: Announcing PolitiFact

PolitiFact is a politics web site "inspired by Adrian Holovaty’s manifesto on the fundamental way newspaper websites need to change."

Los Angeles Times: The journalism that bloggers actually do

Jay Rosen hits back at Michael Skube's anti-blogs rant, providing a long list of examples of proper, reporting jorunalism that bloggers have done.

Strange Attractor: Bring on the noise

Kevin Anderson on Michael Skube's rant: "These columns keep getting printed because they play to the professional biases of journalists. They play to the uninformed view that passes for conventional wisdom that there is a monolithic blogosphere..."

Shane Richmond: Blogging vs journalism (yet again)

Shane Richmond on Michael Skube's rant: "Blogs are, at heart, just people talking. Apply Skube's arguments to the notion of 'people talking' and you'll see how farcical they are."

Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Super-local websites get warm welcome from community leaders

The Lancashire Telegraph is working on "super-local websites, providing readers with news from their postcode area."

NMA: Dennis to launch more online mags after high ABCE for Monkey

"Dennis Publishing is looking to roll out its online-only magazine model following the success of Monkey in last week's ABCE figures."

Manchester Evening News: Future is online for Asian News

The Asian News, which is going online-only, has 41,000 unique visitors per month.

Flickr: This is not a brothel...

Tom Coates is not happy with PR people who send him press releases because of his blog, PlasticBag.org: "It really pisses me off that press people consider me an outlet to push their marketing messages."

One Man & His Blog: Blogging is a Cruel Mistress, says Mr BigLorryBlog

"One of our bloggers, the venerable Brian Weatherley of Big Lorry Blog has done a guest post for the Automotive PR blog giving some, hmm, vivid descriptions of what it's like being a committed journoblogger..."

The News University Journalism Training Blog: Code and Queries at the Reporters' Cookbook

"There's no shortage of gadgets or software for computer-assisted reporting, but making sense of it all is another matter. If you're feeling a bit overwhelmed, we recommend swinging by the Reporters' Cookbook."

icSurreyOnline: Baby under a year old is one of 225 missing

Good perspective-providing FOI story from the Surrey Mirror: "More than 220 youngsters have been reported missing in Mole Valley in the last two years - and the youngest was not even a year old."

MediaShift: Traditional Journalism Job Cuts Countered by Digital Additions

"the reality is that job openings are still plentiful — including print jobs at newspapers around the [United States]."

Brand Republic: Whitehall jokers implicated in latest Wikipedia scandal

"A raft of leading UK [PR] agencies exposed this week as continuing to edit entries despite being banned" ... oh, and Whitehall pranksters created fake MPs.

Bloomberg.com: Google May Start New York Transit Guide to Boost Ads

Wot, no London? Google ... "provides online transit guides for more than a dozen U.S. cities including Dallas and San Diego. Now it may take on the biggest."

Thompson Financial: Johnston Press H1 profits seen hit by weak print ad market

"UK regional newspaper publisher Johnston Press is expected to report a 7 pct drop in first-half underlying profits today, weighed down by further weakness in the print advertising market."

Times Online: Mediapolis

"Don’t believe Mondadori’s on-the-record denial that it is interested in Emap’s consumer magazines. It is. Italian publishing is complex."

CJR: When a Comment Just Isn't a Comment

"Steven Seagal isn’t a name you’d expect to find at the center of a journalism blog battle—including an interesting one that hinges on the meaning of 'declined to comment.'"

Editor & Publsher: SPECIAL: Web Editors Reveal Online Flops or Failures

Top tips for online newspapers, based on lessons learned.

Wolfstar: Stupid, lazy PR people, bloggers and media databases

Stuart Bruce: "[Tom Coates] is listed in media databases. The problem isn’t that he’s listed, but that most PR people are stupid and lazy when it comes to using media databases."

OJR: Rewriting history: Should editors delete or alter online content?

"It's not like it used to be when clippings would just molder in the morgue of the newspaper office," said Craig Whitney, standards editor for the New York Times, who said the Times frequently fields requests to alter archives."

noodlepie: Recruit the best and link to the rest

"Why are newspapers and magazines recruiting bloggers? What's in it for them? What, in effect, are they buying?"

Everything is Miscellaneous: Preserve the record by manifesting the context

"[The New York Times public editor] considers several solutions to this problem [of erronious articles in the archive], seeming to favor the suggestion that the Time expunge faulty articles from its archive. Nooooooo!"

New York Times: When Bad News Follows You

Public editor Clark Hoyt: "People are coming forward at the rate of roughly one a day to complain [about the consequences of] the sudden prominence of old news articles that contain errors or were never followed up."

TechCrunch: Dapper to Launch Instant Facebook AppMaker

This Tuesday, Israel-based Dapper will launch the private beta of Facebook AppMaker, a new tool that the company claims will provide people with a dead simple way to create new Facebook applications.

Smart Mobs: Reporters with a twist or how reporters use Twitter

"The author of ‘Here’s how reporters use Twitter’ is involved in the launch of a newsroom for freelance journalists using Twitter. "

turi2: DuMont, Google, Wikipedia.

German publisher Christian DuMont Schütte says it is perverse for newspapers to publish their content for free and even pay Google to take over the ad market. But he predicts Google will be "dead" in ten years.

Recovering Journalist: Thinking Horizontally

"Most news sites are a collection of vertical cul de sacs. You click on a headline, read the story...and you're left with virtually nowhere to go when you're done reading. ... The alternative to these dead ends is what's called horizontal navigation."

Times Online: Associated set to increase Metro run

"Associated Newspapers is to increase the distribution of its free newspaper Metro by 250,000 copies from the beginning of October."

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Should the Net forget?

"With search engine optimization ... news organizations and other companies are actively manipulating the Web's memory. They're programming the Web to "remember" stuff that might otherwise have become obscure by becoming harder to find."

Tagesspiegel: Vorsicht, Paparazzi!

German redtop Bild has used 4,000 pictures submitted by users via its SMS number. Politicians and celebrities aren't thrilled by the constant surviellence.

Wordblog: If the future is "conversation" let's start here

"There are a lot of people, confused and worried about the uncertain future of journalism who need to be a part of the discussion. Calling on Skube to retire or accusing Keen of Stalinism is not likely to make them feel there is a debate worth joining."

Telegraph Blogs: Marcus Warren: Metrics and Measurement

Marcus Warren on the Daily Mail's ABCe performance ("so impressive that it appeared to shock most of the blogging media pudits into silence") and again says Telegraph.co.uk ("TCUK" to its friends, apparently) remains the UK's top paper site on Hitwise.

Editors Weblog: The Times of London moves to Poland

"The Polish regional newspaper group Polskapresse, owned by the German publisher Verlagsgruppe Passau, has entered into a deal with the Times which includes "editorial cooperation and the usage of the British newspaper's brand."

Times Online: Haymarket launches new titles in India as media market booms

Advertising trade mag Campaign, is one of four magazines planned for launch in India by Haymarket Media Group.

Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: How The [Plymouth] Herald is reaching new audiences with social networking

Plymouth Herald pages on MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and Friendster have gnerated 600 visits and 4,200 pageviews for the paper! Herald editor Neil Shaw says 300 people have signed up to Myspace page, almost 100 on Bebo and 50 on the Facebook group.

The Australian: Bloggers are papers' 'best friend'

"Newspapers have a greater chance of surviving the 21st century if they embrace bloggers, rely more heavily on readers to provide news coverage and abolish subscriber fees for use of online archive material."

Forbes.com: A Few Truths About Online Video

"To the many adjectives being used to describe the Web video phenomenon these days, add this one: puny."

New York Magazine: Where Is America's Most Influential Journalist, Matt Drudge, Coming From?

"He hides, but craves attention. He is prurient and prudish, powerful and paranoid, an icon of the right who seems obsessed with making Hillary Clinton our next president. And he has America caught in the grip of his contradictions."

Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: Can newspapers fix old errors?

"If the Times is truly the “paper of record” that it has always positioned itself as, and its archives deserve high Google rank by virtue of their unimpeachability, then ... it will ... fund an operation to look into reader complaints about old articl

mad.co.uk: The man with the Telegraph plan

Telegraph new media director Shaun Gregory: "approximately 60 per cent of our unique users each month come from outside of the UK... it is not inconceivable that in the future the website may have more of a global focus..."

doctorvee: Hats off to The Daily Mail

Duncan Stephen has some thoughts on newspapers web design. Likes the Mail. But: "the Sunday Herald must be one of the few MSM websites that has actually become worse over time."

TechCrunch: Google Lands CNN As Exclusive Adsense User

"CNN.com and Google have announced an agreement that will see Google’s AdSense become the exclusive text link advertising provider on CNN.com"

Kristine Lowe: Mecom + Wegener: it's formal

"Mecom, the investment vehicle of former Mirror boss David Montgomery, has finally submitted a formal bid for Dutch regional newspaper group Wegener."

BBC Open Secrets: Heavy water

Rob Edwards has a story in the Sunday Herald about how the Scottish Executive used the risk of terrorist attack as an excuse to keep information about radioactive contamination in drinking water a secret.

Telegraph.co.uk: Campbell book most likely to be left behind

"Alistair Campbell's book The Blair Years topped the charts of a list of the latest literary works most often left behind in hotel rooms, compiled by hotel chain Travelodge."

Independent: Inside Story: Virtual visions

"The online alternative universe that is Second Life was supposed to offer myriad opportunities for media companies to showcase their wares. Chris Green takes a look at their differing fortunes "

persoenlich.com: Schweizer Medienhäuser planen Konkurrenz zu Google News

Now Swiss publishers accuse Google News of copyright infringement and are planning an alternative to the search giant's news aggregator. (via Turi2)

BBC News: Million more UK homes go online

"Some 15.2m UK households - 61% of homes - now have an internet connection, compared with 54% in 2006, research from National Statistics found...84% of web-enabled households said they had a broadband connection, up from 69% in May 2006."

Telegraph.co.uk: Nokia handset to rival iPhone

"Nokia will tomorrow launch [the N81] mobile phone to rival Apple's iPhone as the must-have gadget for Christmas. Nokia handset to rival Apple iPhone Apple's iPhone will be launched in Europe later this year"

FT.com: Local newspaper revenues plummet

"The UK's local newspaper industry lost about £225m in revenue last year as regional publishers invested heavily online but failed to counter declining circulation and advertising revenue in print"

NMA: Telegraph launches family history site

"Findmypast.com and the Telegraph Media Group today launched a white-label family history site, Telegraph Family History."

turi2: Montgomery, "Süddeutsche Zeitung", Faber.

David Mongomery signals interest in one of Germany's big newspapers, Süddeutsche Zeitung, in an interview with the ... Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Sky News Blog: 'Primary Purpose Of Journalism Is To Inform'

Sky News head John Ryley responds to critics of his handling of the fictional hostage scenario at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Brand Republic: News Corp's YouTube rival Hulu to begin testing

"News Corporation and NBC Universal will begin testing in October for their rival video website to YouTube, dubbed Hulu, but the date of the site's formal launch remains unknown."

Bad Science: Unsolicited advice, from one oligarch to another

Ben Goldacre offers "unsolicited advice on what newspapers should do with the internet: as a punter, as a microfamous internet oligarch and, of course, as a gentleman."

The Christian Science Monitor: Digital forensics: Spotting photographic fakes in the media

Soundslides presentation on how to identify manipulated photographs.

Christian Science Monitor: Digital detectives discern Photoshop fakery

"The most common examples of doctored photos occur in the media, but there are serious cases of image manipulations in security and investigations as well," says Cynthia Baron, author of the book "Photoshop Forensics," scheduled for release in December.

Google News Blog: Original stories, from the source

Google News will now link directly to stories by the news agencies Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Press Association and the Canadian Press, rather than identical stories on newspapers' web sites .

Reuters: Google to Feature News Agencies’ Articles

"Josh Cohen, business product manager of Google News, said his company would consider eventually running advertising alongside the articles it is licensing from news agencies."

FT.com: Google News redirects its wire search web traffic

"Publishers that routinely carry wire stories on their sites could lose traffic, affecting the prices they charge online advertisers".

Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: 100 per cent increase in web visits for press flood coverage

Traffic to ThisIsGloucestershire spiked to 200K visits (?) in July, and ThisIsHull spiked to 180K in July -- double the average for both sites over the previous six months, according to AND.

The Denver Post: Newspapers won't work without Net

"We are where you want to find us. We don't define ourselves as print," [New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr] said. "We're getting out of the mind-set that we snap a picture of the world (at a certain time) and present it to you (the next day)."

Gideon Rachman's Blog: Wikipedia and crowd-sourcing

"I thought my experiement with soliciting ideas for my column a few weeks ago was quite successful. I think I'll drop the crowd-sourcing label since it strikes me a bit pretentious. ..."

Reflections of a Newsosaur: [US] Print ad sales hit 10-year low

"After six straight quarters of accelerating declines, newspaper print advertising sales in the first half of this year fell to the lowest level in a decade, according to statistics released today by the Newspaper Association of America."

Independent on Sunday: Johnston Press joins the digital revolution

Johnston Press chief exec Tim Bowdler on bringing 24-hour rolling news to local and regional papers: "Suddenly, we are in the business of breaking news again ... That is something that we have not done for a while, and our journalists are loving it."

Sunday Times: Media threaten walkout [at Rugby World Cup]

AFP, one of more than 40 new organisations in dispute with the IRB over arrangements for covering the Rugby World Cup, threatened to pull out of reporting on the tournament.

Guardian Unlimited: Images resized just how you'd like

Computer scientists are developing a very impressive new new image resizing method that has obvious implications for resizing pics on news web sites using an algorithm that removes pixels from the image. Cue important ethics debate among photojorunalists.

Publishing 2.0: Google News Hosting Wire Service Stories Diminishes Value Of Duplicate Content

Scott Karp: "on the web ... news wires no longer make as much sense, for the inverse reason that they once made sense — why should every newspaper carry the same version of the same story which can be accessed anywhere ... ?"

Recovering Journalist: Still Partying Like It's 1999

Mark Potts: "If newspaper Web sites are going to successfully bail out their print counterparts, they've got to act like ... eb sites. Unfortunately, a recent report indicates that most newspaper Web sites are still stuck firmly in the last century ... "

Insider Chatter by Donna Bogatin: What Google News? AP: Google Plays Second Fiddle to Yahoo

Yet again, an important reminder: Google News is a much smaller wire-service aggregating operation than Yahoo News. And MSN. And AOL.

thenoise.co.uk: Radio FiveLive uses FoI for youth crime figures

"BBC Radio Five Live has ... submitted FoI requests to all 43 police forces in England and Wales, asking how many cases had been recorded last year in which the suspect was under 10."

Independent: Stephen Glover on The Press

Stephen Glover devotes much of his Indy column to the puzzling and no doubt important question of why some national newspaper columnists' Wikipedia entries are longer than others. And you thought Silly Season was coming to an end.

Back to Iraq: I am not a blogger

Christopher Allbritton: "Jay [Rosen]’s list of 14 sites proves [Michael] Skube’s central idea: there are very, very few blogs out there doing what might be called original reporting."

Kristine Lowe: What journalists need to know about snowballs and fires

Kristine Lowe explains how the distributed conversations of the blogosphere work - and how journalists collectively can use them to piece together a story.

Telegraph Blogs: Shane Richmond: Google News prods newspapers towards the future

Shane Richmond: "From a newsprint point of view wire copy makes perfect sense. It allows us to cover stories that we don't have resources to cover ourselves. ... Online, however, wire copy is redundant."

BBC Open Secrets: The lifecycle of an FOI request

Martin Rosenbaum on the long, long story of a Freedom of Information request which a government department fought for 906 days before finally releasing the information a few days before an Information Tribunal hearing.

Media Nation: Google ads and "the long tail"

Dan Kennedy: "Does Lou Ureneck really think the little guys whose ads have popped up on his Web site about fishing in Greece would otherwise be taking out ads in newspapers?"

currybetdotnet: Introducing Chipwrapper - a UK newspaper search engine

Martin Belam has unveiled his newspaper aggregator, Chipwrapper, "a hub for a set of tools to search news content from the UK's major newspapers and TV news sources".

New York Times Blog: Bits: Business 2.0 RIP

"[E]mployees of Business 2.0 magazine were told today that the monthly publication will close next week, after they finish the October issue."

How-Do: Lancashire Telegraph launches ‘Your East Lancs’ community web sites

Newsquest's Lancashire Telegraph has jumped on the hyperlocal bandwagon with 'Your East Lancs’, which covers almost 20 local communities, primarily villages.

Independent: 'Sunday Telegraph' editor quits after 18 months

"It has been suggested that the Telegraph is moving towards a seven-day news operation, but sources at the newspaper dismissed this idea."

SimonWaldman.net: Web 2.0 - a threat or opportunity for newspapers?

Simon Waldman: "I think the real shift here is not about blogging versus journalism - but sheer volume of news sources available to us - and therefore the need for new tools to that improve the way that people find and engage with news and information..."

Variety.com: German media clash over web

German commerical online publishers don't like the online activities of the country's public-service broadcasters. Sound familiar?

MIT Technology Review: E-paper with Photonic Ink

"Photonic crystals are being used by a Toronto startup to create commercial devices that offer better color and resolution than other flexible displays."

TrustedReviews: iRex Technologies iLiad Reader

A review of the iRex e-reader.

Charles Arthur: The iPod moment for newspapers won’t be good news for some parts of the papers

The iPhone ain't it, but when it comes, the iPod moment for newspapers will be very bad news for unpopular sections of the newspaper bundle.

AOP: AOP Awards shortlist announced

The shortlist for the Association of Online Publishers Awards 2007. Trinity Mirror gets four nominations for the Evening Gazette in Teesside. MySun and MyTelegraph both nominated.

CJR: The (Josh) Marshall Plan

Profile of blogger-journalist Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo

Online Journalism Blog: Jobseeking site to be relaunched

"Jobseeking journalists can add another bookmark to their browser from September 12, when Press Gazette relaunch es Jobs4Journalists.co.uk. The new site promises tailored job alerts and CV registration."

The New York Observer: Guardian Reclaims America

"According to [Michael] Tomasky, the [Guardian America] will give prominent placement to Guardian stories dealing with the presidential campaign, the Middle East and cultural news relevant to American readers—think Ian McEwan."

Reuters Blogs: New Internet iPod is iPhone without the phone

"... a new iPhone-like touchscreen music and video player that has a full Internet browser and the capacity to download music."

plasticbag.org: On Andrew Keen...

Tom Coates: "The future comes, for good or ill, whether you like it or not. The best you can do in such a situation is try and work to fix the issues you see. No market for decent commentary and opinion? Look for a business model that could support it!"

DigiDave: Network Journalism Versus Citizen Journalism Versus the Myriad of Other Names for Social Media in the News World

"'Citizen journalism' remains somewhat of a vague but very charged term. What intrigues me about the word and why I believe it is so vague are the various synonyms it has."

Journalistopia: Journalistopia online crime maps directory

Loads of US papers are now producing crime-plotting map mashups. Here's a list of them.

Amateur Photographer: Exposed: Meerkat photo story was a ‘hoax’ news

"Amateur Photographer magazine can exclusively reveal that today's national newspaper stories, claiming a meerkat took photographs at Longleat Safari Park, were based on a hoax. "

NMA: Associated reveals major online investment plan

"The publishing group has tasked digital agency Conchango with developing new ways of accessing news content throughout titles including, The Daily Mail and The Evening Standard's websites, in a deal believed to be worth £1m."

WSJ.com: Mr. Murdoch's Perks

"News Corp. said Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch received compensation for the year ended June 30 valued at $32.1 million ... Mr. Murdoch received personal use of corporate aircraft valued at $337,427."

Techcrunch: Exclusive: Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 Preview

: Eurobaseball 2007 Eurobeisbol

...starts tonight in Barcelona. Wish I was there as previsously intended. D'oh. Go GB!

Stand Up for Journalism.com: This doesn't matter to me.....

Not all journalists are enthused about Trinity Mirror's hyperlocal sites: "a team of 150 bloggers (to double in a year) supply news to hyperlocal titles in Teeside. How long before Independent start getting a band of bloggers across their regions...."

BBC News: World Have Your Say: Prisoner 345

Sami Al-hajj is an Al-Jazeera cameraman who's been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Without charge.

The Long Tail: The Black Wire and the White Wire

Chris Anderson has a bloody good idea: Two ethernet cables on his work computer. One to the restrictive office network, one to a DSL line. "These two cables are a handy metaphor for the two worlds of corporate computing: end users and the IT department."

E-consultancy.com: Social network launches worldwide spam campaign

Ilana Fox: "Quechup spammed every single person in my Google contacts at 5am this morning when I was fast asleep." Ahhh.

ZDNet.com: Put the lid on Quechup

"In recent days, I’ve received a half dozen invitations to join Quechup (it gets no linkage because it deserves none)"

Slate: How to rescue your reputation from the New York Times and Google

Dodgy newspaper articles come up when you Google yourself? Don't moan to the ombudsman; do a little ego-SEO.

Times Online: ITV ad revenue up as companies scrum for Rugby World Cup slots

ITV1 ad revenues are up by an estimated 4 per cent to 5 per cent in September. All 48 Rugby World Cup games are being shown live on ITV, with 26 on ITV1. ITV paid £40m for the exclusive UK rights to the 2003 and 2007 tournaments.

Micro Persuasion: Google News Adds Barely 100 Comments in 30 Days

"Over the last 30 days or so, Google has posted a grand total of 104 comments. I am sure the demand is far higher and they can't keep up."

BusinessWeek: Rugby Breaks into the Big Leagues

"The World Cup, established only in 1987, is expected to draw a worldwide television audience of 4 billion over the next six weeks and generate $200 million in revenues, according to data compiled by Sportcal, a London sports consultancy."

European Championships 2007: Great Britain 12, Spain 8

The full box score.

BaseballSoftballUK.com: GB baseball team wins European Champsionship Opener

An impressive start: 12-8 against the hosts Spain.

Sunday Herald: Trinity Eyes Gap In Scottish Market With Free Weekly Business Paper

"Trinity will have sent a shot across the bows of the Scottish national newspapers... The new title also steals a march on London free business daily City AM, which has plans to launch in Scotland this year."

allmediascotland: The Press Complaints Commission and Moving Images on Newspaper Websites

Sir Christopher Meyer's comments on the PCC and online video: "the PCC’s concern was with, to put it in shorthand, editorial material not user-generated content. That, basically, is how it has come out in the PressBoF guidance note of February 8."

Independent on Sunday: The real reason the 'Telegraph' lost Patience

"[F]ar from throwing her stilettos into the machine, [Patience Wheatcroft] was on the verge of launching The Sunday Telegraph's own comment blogs on its website, according to one insider."

Peter Preston: Why did Will lose his Patience?

"The inward-looking, muttered story around Fleet Street is about something rather different: the slow loss - and then perhaps dead loss - of independently run Sunday papers."

Peter Preston: Cut the puns, not the price. It might just work

"Remember that half the capital's population come from overseas now ... You might as well rename the News of the World the Punday Times. It's a dated, dowdy exercise in mass incomprehension."

Telegraph: Civil servant crackdown on internet whingeing

"Civil servants who complain about their jobs or employers on MySpace, Facebook and other websites face disciplinary action under plans being considered by ministers."

The Business: Writing on the wall for papers not investing in online editions

WTF? "Less than a year ago, the competition for the title of the UK’s leading newspaper website was a two horse race. Only Guardian Unlimited and Telegraph.co.uk (owned by the same parent company as The Business) had user figures that were worth measuri

Adrian Monck: The new journalism

"Wikileaks has ... a leak of what it claims is a list of US Military Equipment in Afghanistan. Wikileaks applies a lot of Computer Assisted Reporting techniques to analysing the data. Here is how they did it..."

E-Media Tidbits: Media Literacy: Can the Public Catch Up with Newspapers?

Steve Klein: "[M]any consumers are still not sufficiently media literate or discerning ... to do all that work and participate in the many-to-many conversation taking place throughout the media. These people still want gatekeepers."

allmediascotland: Hyper Growth Being Enjoyed by Local Newspaper Website

Evening Gazette editor Darren Thwaites says his web site, featuring hyperlocal community sites, is growing by 25 per cent month-on-month.

Reuters: INTERVIEW-Mecom has no plan to sweeten Wegener bid

David Montgomery tells Reuters that Mecom "has not looked at improving the terms of its bid for Dutch publisher Wegener".

Reuters: Time magazine to fight Suharto libel ruling

"Time magazine will fight an Indonesian Supreme Court libel ruling in favour of former President Suharto which ordered the U.S. weekly to pay more than $100 million in damages and print apologies, Time's lawyer said on Tuesday."

Media Week: Ex-editor confirms launch of The Day

"Former Daily Express editor Richard Addis has confirmed plans to launch an upmarket freesheet newspaper called The Day, which will be circulated in and around the London area."

BBC News: Facebook 'costs businesses dear'

"Workers who spend time on sites such as Facebook could be costing firms over £130m a day, a study has calculated."

MediaPost Publications: Online Metrics Insider: The Most Measurable Medium

ComScore chief research officer Josh Chasin: "One of the consequences of being the most measurable medium is that the Internet ends up as the medium with the most measures."

Mister Baseball: Great Britain keeps their Olympic Dream alive with 4-3 over Spain

"Alex Malihoudis delivered a clutch pinch-hit RBI single as Great Britain squeezed past previously unbeaten France in a thriller in Sant Boi." GB and France are now joint top of their group with a 3-1 record.

Telegraph: Why New York hasn't been attacked again

Judith Miller -- now described as a "contributing editor of Manhattan Institute's City Journal" -- is published in the Telegraph.

Times Online: How couple helped to build ‘brand McCann’ into global phenomenon

"What became 'brand Madeleine' arose from a combination of brilliant media-handling skills and, for the first time, interactive websites telling editors how much the public craved such a story."

Mathew Ingram: Real-life experience with the new Google News

The Nashua Telegraph put a story it had broken on the AP wire -- and promptly lost Google News traffic to its web site.

CNET News.com: Tech news blog: What is news to John Q. Public?

The Project for Excellence in Journalism has compared 48 news sites with social news aggregators Digg, Reddit and del.icio.us. The study also compared the items selected for Yahoo News and user-driven pages.

Currebetdotnet: The meerkat photograph hoax review - which UK newspapers admitted online to being duped?

Martin Belam looks for corrections in the national newspapers about the meerkat photo hoax... And finds remarkably little.

Dadblog: Introducing Messy Media

Lloyd Shepherd: "today I’m unveiling my own company. Well, not entirely my own - it’s a partnership with my former Yahoo! colleague Andrew Levy. And it’s called MessyMedia."

Online Journalism Blog: The NCTJ: marketing, not education

Paul Bradshaw: "The need for an NCTJ ‘badge’ seems to be something of a self-perpetuating myth: regional press editors continue to say that they require it, despite evidence that half of the new journalists they take on don’t have NCTJ training. "

Telegraph: Sports round-up

The expected nib materialises! "The British baseball team's success at the European Championships has put them on the brink of qualifying for next year's Olympics - the last time the sport will be held at the Games."

Reuters: Free TV channel aims for Internet content

[Finnish startup] Floobs plans to offer a free television channel for everyone, enabling people to run live shows or pre-recorded material, for no charge, starting later this year.

BuzzMachine: Support journalism at its source

Jeff Jarvis on the flaw in Google's wire service deal, at least as it applies to US local stories picked up by AP: "the Google deal does rob traffic, thus revenue, from the paper that invested in journalism. And that will not help sustain journalism."

MediaGuardian.co.uk: BBC cherry-picked web ad studies

More from the annals of strange FOI responses: "the BBC declined to give further details ... stating that the information would 'add significantly to the misinformation and confusion that has surrounded the proposed introduction of advertising on BBC.com'

Telegraph: Readership figures add fuel to London's freesheet war

It's nice to see online metrics aren't the only ones that provoke rows. Associated and News International are squabbling over teh sample size used by the National Readership Survey for their london freesheets.

Steve Outing: Helping alleviate climate change: Fox?

"I still find it odd that news organizations mostly refuse to go beyond their role of strictly reporting on and analyzing climate change news. Helping to avert planetary environmental disaster, I’d think, is a cause worth championing."

NPR : News Corp. Sets 'Green' Goals

"News Corp. is using its entertainment products (movies and TV shows) to push a green message."

New Statesman: Neutrality is cowardice

Mark Lynas: "If [Newsnight editor Peter] Barron is really suggesting that the BBC should be 'neutral' on the question of planetary survival, his absurd stance surely sets a new low for political cowardice in the media."

NashuaTelegraph.com: Let the fomenting begin

Damon Kiesow, who has shown the major flaw in the Google-AP content deal, has a proposal for how to solve the problem.

BBC Radio 4: Today Programme: Listen Again

Coffee-spewing moment of the day: Great Britain baseball coach Stephan Rapaglia interviewed ... on the Today programme. GB Plays Germany today and Holland tomorrow for a chance at the 2008 Olympics.

Editor & Publisher: 'NYT' Posts Filmmaker's Video 'Letter to Editor' on Bremer Op-Ed

"In another Web first, The New York Times has posted on its Web site a video Letter to the Editor from Charles Ferguson, the anti-war filmmaker."

Telegraph Property: Bill Deedes's home for sale

Bill Deedes's house in Kent, New Hayters, is being sold. His biographer explains the significance.

Manchester Evening News: Terry wanted back in Street

"Nigel Pivaro ... The Salford-born actor, who played bad boy Terry Duckworth in the Granada soap [Coronation Street], is pursuing a new career as a journalist."

Engadget: French newspaper goes electronic

"France's Les Echos is now offering up an electronic flavor of its product to those with an iRex iLiad or STAReBook."

Sunday Herald: Former Fhm Editor Adds Lads Mag To List Of Freesheets

"Former FHM editor Mike Soutar is launching ShortList, a weekly magazine for young men with money to spend, built around the male obsession with making lists of anything and everything, this Thursday."

NashuaTelegraph.com: Web Notes: A bit more troublemaking

Damon Kiesow replies to the AP response to the Google News problem: "'Credit' is an outdated concept in the digital realm. Giving credit is one thing - linking to the original source is the real thing."

Times Online: Craigslist aims to woo the locals

"... in Britain ... [Jim] Buckmaster is preparing to relaunch the English version of Craigslist. ... Craigslist has yet to make a big impact in Britain – hence the relaunch plans."

Independent: 'London Lite' is on a roll. So what price the 'Standard'?

"Sources at [Associated Newspapers] say plans are in place to take the Standard further upmarket and distinguish it more clearly from its free siblings."

Telegraph: Denis O'Brien: The man who wants to make a splash at Independent News & Media

O'Brien on INM: "What I'm trying to do is force change - put proper governance in. The company can do a lot better with a proper board."

Paleo-Future: The Electronic Newspaper (1978)

The Futurist, April 1978: "if we think (as I do) of newspapers as organizations which disseminate news and information by the most efficient methods available - then we are thinking in terms of applying a new technology to an existing institution."

Sunday Herald: Revealed after a 31-month fight: Who gets the £115m farm subsidies

"After two and half years of secrecy and prevarication, the Scottish government has been forced by the Scottish information commissioner, Kevin Dunion, to name those who have benefited most from agricultural subsidies in the past."

BBF: Great Britain loses Championship game to the Netherlands but takes home three major achievements

"Great Britain will come away with a number of major achievements from the [baseball European Championships]: its best ever finish in the modern format; a place at the Olympic qualifier in spring 2008 and a debut place in the 2009 World Championship."

Guardian Jobs: News reporter, Guardian America

Now the Guardian is seeking a reporter for Guardian America.

New York Times: A Newspaper Defends Naming Jurors

A Connecticut newspaper has named all the jurors in a death penalty case.

New York Times: New York Post Will Publish Weekly Page Six Magazine

Margi Conklin, former editor of Harper’s Bazaar and New Woman is the editor of The New York Post's new Page Six Magazine, which launches this Sunday.

Reuters: Attributor to help Reuters track digital content

"Digital media monitoring company Attributor Corp plans to announce on Monday that it will help track content produced by Reuters Group that finds its way onto the Internet."

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Google's plan to poach election traffic

Alan Mutter thinks Google's Australian election site is the company's "boldest-yet intrusion into the formerly sacred space of the MSM" and a trial run for a bid to hijack election traffic US media sites will get next year.

One Man & His Blog: Comments Closed: A First

Community Care has had to close a comment thread on its blogs. "I had no idea that there was such a strong and virulent hatred of social workers," says RBI's blog

Editor & Publisher: 'NYT' To End Pay Policy on Web Site -- Notes New 'Landscape'

"It had been rumored for weeks, but became official tonight with the posting on an article on The New York Times online site: The paper is ending its practice of walling off part of its offerings in a pay channel, TimesSelect."

New York Times: A Letter to Readers About TimesSelect

The New York Times paywall is coming down on Wednesday. Paying TimesSelect subscribers will receive a prorated refund.

BuzzMachine: Times deselected

Jeff Jarvis: "TimesSelect represented the last gasp of the circulation mentality of news media, the belief that surely consumers would continue to pay for content even as the internet commodified news"

paidContent: UK: Inteview: Carolyn McCall, CEO, Guardian Media Group (Edited Transcript)

McCall: "We’re not going to integrate in the way you think ‘integration’ in other newspapers has occurred, but I think it’s going to be far more difficult to split the budgets out editorially. It’s one editorial budget, it’s ‘The Guardian’

Press Gazette: Jobs boost from Teesside hyperlocal sites

"The award-winning success of the Teesside Evening Gazette website has enabled the title to invest in more staff, according to its editor, Darren Thwaites."

Lost Remote: Amy Gahran asks good questions

David Johnson: "Online journalism needs to be awarded when it is journalism that takes advantage of the capabilities that only online offers, not simply repurposing and stitching together platform agnostic content..."

TechCrunch: iPhone UK: The news so far

Mike Butcher:"Almost everything was predicted beforehand, except the rather clever idea behind O2’s service which will see it partner with European-wide WiFi network The Cloud". ... That and no 3G.

Times Online: Apple unveils launch of £1,000 UK iPhone

"The basic handset will cost British consumers £269 - £69 more than in the US - but Britons must also sign up to a contract ...at between £899 and £1,259, depending on the call plan."

Recovering Journalist: TimesSelect, R.I.P.

Mark Potts: "the delight about the end of TimesSelect is misplaced. While the "content needs to be free" crowd hails it as a victory, the fact is that TimesSelect was the right idea, badly executed."

How-Do: Brauner to edit Crain’s Manchester Business weekly newspaper

"Steve Brauner, editor of the North West Evening Mail in Barrow is to be the editor of the forthcoming Crain’s Manchester Business weekly newspaper."

Digital Media Wire: NYT Tears Down the Pay Wall to TimesSelect - Ends the Paid Content Era on the Internet

Scott Karp: "Newspapers — and all original content producers — need to think about the 'lifetime value' of their content when monetized through fees vs. when monetized through advertising."

Reuters: Murdoch making the case for free WSJ online

"News Corp Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that he was leaning toward making online Wall Street Journal free, but had made no decision yet."

Gawker: Charts And Graphs: Which New York Newspaper Has The Most Accurate Weather Forecasts?

Gawker tortures their intern by sending her out to compare newspapers' weather forecasts with actual temperatures, resulting in post with pretty graphs. (Evil grin.) Anybody want work experience at Press Gazette?

Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard: Times kills for-pay service — till next downturn

"[At the next downturn] all the execs who have been staking their careers on the promise of online advertising will stare at their dwindling quarterly returns and wonder why they hadn’t banked some subscription revenue as a hedge against a downturn."

Beltway Blogroll: Mighty Milblogs Or Bush's Lapblogs?

Bush-friendly milbloggers invited to the White House, sycophantic posts follow. A familiar pattern, says Daniel Glover: "bloggers lose their edge (at least momentarily) because they become enamored by the trappings of power."

Invisible Inkling: Is your newspaper.com is a big ball of mud?

"Is your newspaper site a clean-looking, uniform grid of semantic (and validated!) code? Or is it a ‘big ball of mud,’ with includes (scotch tape) and javascript (bubble gum) holding together a jumble of disparate hunks of content?"

currybetdotnet : My Telegraph is held up by Texas Hold 'Em spam

MyTelegraph suffered a heavy spam attack last weekend. Martin Belam has the details.

Online Journalism Blog: A model for the 21st century newsroom: pt1 - the news diamond «

In a must-read post, Paul Bradshaw has a great set of ideas for how to report a news story across different media. The inverted pyramid style becomes a diamond.

Kristine Lowe: TV4 buys political blog of journalist ousted in hacking scandal

"Sweden's biggest commercial TV-channel is acquiring politikerbloggen.se for 1m SEK (about £75,000). The blog was set up by [political reporter] Niklas Svensson after he was ousted from Swedish tabloid Expressen ... "

ThisisExeter: Phobia of web affects 5,000

"One in 20 people in Exeter has a fear of going online, according to ... research from UK Online Centres, a government-funded organisation which aims to get more people to go online."

Computer World: IT is a key barrier to corporate Web 2.0 adoption, users say

"Office 2.0 attendees say IT workers reluctant to change traditional processes" So very, very true.

Digital Deliverance: TimesSelect No Longer $elective

Vin Crosbie: TimesSelect "yielded some $10mi from 227,000 paying customers. That's less than 2% of the site's more than 13m registered users. Its revenues are less than 5% of the site's revenues from advertising on freely accessible webpages.

Telegraph Blogs: Ian Douglas: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

Some at the Telegraph will be happy to see the old CMS go: "When free blogging software like Wordpress can churn out a site with little or no training people are amazed to find they have to dig around in bare XML to get a news story online." (Amen.)

Adrian Monck: "One of the most important developments in the history of science"

Funny stuff from the Professor: "New Scientist has a paywall up on its story about the mathematical work that says there are multiverses/multiple worlds/parallel universes. Somewhere, then, the story is not behind a paywall."

Scotsman.com: £500,000 budget for broadcast review body under fire

"The new commission set up to look into the future of broadcasting in Scotland ... has been given a £500,000 budget, including a day rate of £387 for its chairman, the former BBC news and current affairs chief Blair Jenkins."

WSJ.com: Murdoch's Choice: Paid or Free for WSJ.com?

WSJ.com looks at its own position in the paid content debate, and puts it all in perspective with a great chart showing print vs. online advertising revenues at US daily newspapers on the same scale.

Burton Mail: Burglars had to wait

"A book and Internet blog written by a former Burton police constable has become a global publishing sensation. ... The Mail revealed Pc Copperfield's true indentity on Monday, and the fact that his pseudonymous home town was, in fact, Burton."

Yahoo! Finance: Wilmington posts 25% profit rise

"Publishing house Wilmington saw ongoing full year profits soar by 25% and is to buy back £5m worth of shares in the coming month." (Full disclosure: this post refers to my employer)

Journalism.co.uk: Economist 'builds buzz' by tipping off bloggers about unpublished content

"The Economist Group is using the power of the blogosphere to build 'buzz' for its political stories before they are published."

Black Star Rising: Scoopt Founder: "I Wouldn't Like to Be a Local Newspaper Photographer Right Now"

"I wouldn't like to be a local newspaper photographer right now," [Kyle] MacRae said in an interview with Black Star Rising. "You're competing with your own readers."

kottke.org: Gems from the archive of the New York Times

"Now that the NY Times has discontinued their Times Select subscription program and made much more of their 150+ years of content available for anyone to read and link to, let's take a look at some of the more notable items that the non-subscriber has bee

Press Gazette: Editors urged to 'kill' sections

"Robert G Picard presented research at the Future of Newspapers conference in Cardiff that showed direct mail – and not the internet – is the biggest threat to advertising revenue."

Press Gazette: Editors in fancy dress for PPA snap

Spot your editors wearing silly costumes. That's Clare Gogerty from Coast in the lobster suit.

drupal.org: Information.dk - Another Drupal Newspaper Site

Johannes Wehner explains how Information.dk built a newspaper web site in Drupal in half a year of fulltime development.

Folio Magazine: New Yorker Builds Online Content -- Slowly

"There are currently 25 videos uploaded to the New Yorker’s YouTube account"

Rebuilding Media: It's Time for News Organizations to Stop Defining Themselves by Obsolete Products

"What is troubling about ['future of newspapers'] questions is these people are still trying to define their news organizations according to products that are becoming obsolete. The true question is 'What will news organizations do in the future?'"

Chicken Yoghurt: Public Service Announcement - Craig Murray, Tim Ireland, Boris Johnson, Bob Piper...

"Tim Ireland’s Bloggerheads site is currently down after his webhost pulled the plug. ... " following allegations made by Craig Murray about Alisher Usmanov.

FT.com: Business publishers find balance for expansion

“We will be looking at Emap to see if there will be more fragmentation within it, and we would be very interested if there was,” [Wilmington ceo Charles] Brady said. “Their businesses are very good and some of them would fit very well with ours.

AP: Virgin [Mobile Australia] sued by Texas girl

Creative Commons Corp was also named in the suit over the Australian mobile firm's use of a Flickr picture in an advertisement.

On The Media: Spot Remover

C-Net's Declan McCullagh explains that new ad-blocking plug-ins raise serious problems for websites and maybe even legal issues for those who use the software.

Scotland on Sunday: 'We will crush the FT' says News Corp

Peter Chernin, president of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation said: "We don't want to buy the FT. News Corp will crush it."

Observer: Many courses, too few jobs

"Just 8 per cent of London media people come from poor or minority backgrounds, according to a Metropolitan University survey launched last week at the TUC." .... But the real cause istoo many media courses and entry-level penury, says Peter Preston.

Boing Boing Gadgets: Phone Manufacturers Settle on Micro-USB Charging Standard

[The major mobile phone manufactoryers have] "decided to standardize on micro-USB as the charging interface for mobile phones, putting an end to the needless waste created by needing separate chargers for each device."

One Man & His Blog: Work in Progress 3: Three Types of Journalist Blogs

Adam Tinworth identifies some types of blogs that journalists might write, giving some examples from his own stable at RBI: expert comment, aggregation, and background.

FT.com: Online advertisers may gain from slump

"Online advertising spending is widely predicted to continue its strong growth even if a US economic downturn squeezes the advertising sector as a whole."

E-consultancy.com: Google launches bookmark sharing feature

"Google has launched its own version of Del.icio.us; a social bookmarking service called Google Shared Stuff that allows users to share their favourite links with friends."

BBC News: The Editors: Confessions of a BBC rookie

Rome Hartman: "The BBC has a different word or phrase than American networks use to describe almost every function of television production, and it may yet drive me crazy."

Telegraph Blogs: Shane Richmond: A new political blog

Shane signs up a very good one: "Mick Fealty is blogging for the Telegraph. ... His new blog is called Brassneck and it is the second of several new political blogs coming to Telegraph.co.uk this autumn."

cybersoc.com: [Robin Hamman's] interview about internet libel on 5 Live

Robin Hamman is interviewed on FiveLive about l'affaire Usmanov.

Cybersoc.com: Threat of libel suit sends uk blogs tumbling down

Robin Hamman on the Usmanov libel blog takedown issue: "Anything less [than US-style immunity] puts content hosts in the uncomfortable position of having to make extra-judicial decisions about what content is and isn't a breach of the law"

Editor & Publisher: 'WSJ' Combines NY Tech and Media Bureaus

"In a nod to the morphing world of media and technology, The Wall Street Journal is combining its New York tech bureau with the Media & Marketing group."

Forbes.com: The Top Pundits In America

Data reveals top talking heads: "Forbes analyzed data compiled by market research group E-Poll on more than 60 well-known pundits who follow and critique the worlds of politics, current events, law, entertainment and sports."

Mediafile: The New York Times’s moveable house feast

NY Times "will let readers receive and send property listings on their mobile devices, “regardless of whether their property search began in print, online or on The Times mobile real estate site.”

Bloggerheads: The Alisher Usmanov Affair

Tim Ireland has set up a temporary blog on Blogger since Bloggerheads was shut down over following a takedown notice sent to his hosts by solicitors acting for Alisher Usmanov.

Reuters: UK newspaper publishers fall, UBS wary on sector

"UBS said it was concerned about structural risks facing the UK regional newspaper industry."

Google Maps Mania: 35,000 World News Videos on a Google Map

"MediaScrape, the "Internet TV News Network" has just launched integration with Google Maps to help users find breaking news videos from around the world."

Bloggerheads: The Alisher Usmanov Affair: Fasthosts: a timeline of excellent service

A timeline of the Alisher Usmanov blog libel case.

Publishing 2.0: Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks

Scott Karp: "I’ve had it with the mobile web. Here are five reasons why the web on the go still has a long way to go."

cybersoc.com: Finding content from inside Burma - harder than you'd think

"Journalists hoping to find authentic, first hand accounts, photos and video content being posted from inside Burma are likely to face a number of challenges..."

E-consultancy.com: Local.com launches in the UK

"Local.com has just launched a UK version of its site, providing searchable local listings for a range of products and services."

Online Journalism Review: Who speaks for a website?

Robert Niles: when citing forum web sites or blogs, journalists need to remember that "the attribution ought to be given to the person on the website, and not to the website itself".

FTD.de: Google verspricht Tausende neue Jobs

Google plans to create thousands of research and technology jobs in Europe, according to FT Deutschland.

New Statesman: The Sun comes out in Bournemouth

"Our top-selling daily seems to have taken against Gordon Brown. But does it matter any more what the Sun says?"

Comment is free Editors' Blog: Reporting from Burma

"Colleagues on Guardian Unlimited reported this morning that they had been working with Burmese-speaking translators yesterday and today to gather as much information as possible from blogs and other communications from inside Burma and from sites run by

Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog: Burma protests: Thursday

Reuters says a photojournalist, possibly Japanese, was killed in Rangoon.

Reuters AlertNet: Myanmar says one Japanese killed in Yangon

"he Myanmar government has told Japan's Embassy in Yangon that a Japanese national has been killed ... Two Japanese reporters, meanwhile, were expelled from Yangon on Wednesday."

Telegraph.co.uk: Photos show 'death' of Japanese man in Burma - Telegraph

"These extraordinary pictures from Rangoon, the Burmese capital, appear to show the death of a Japanese photographer during the regime's crackdown against pro-democracy protesters."

Press Gazette: Nineteenth century newspapers to go online

"The British Library is putting the finishing touches to a website that will give journalists and academics access to two million pages of newspapers from the 19th century."

Marketing Week: Online ads that damage brands

"Internet ads, especially pop-ups, are driving Web users away. To avoid negative results, marketers must engage with consumers and produce highly targeted campaigns that maintain brand integrity"

Telegraph Blogs: Shane Richmond: Building an audience for your blog

"If you start a blog on Blogger, WordPress or a similar service, it'll just be you, your mother and the tumbleweed for a few weeks at least. So how do you build an audience?"

Telegraph.co.uk: Daily Mail sees ad revenues rise

"The Daily Mail and General Trust has become the latest company to brush off fears that turmoil in the financial markets will hit its advertising revenues."

Charles Arthur: Hey, where did the Daily Mail post go from Community Care’s blog?

The controversial Community Care blog post promising a story criticising the Daily Mail is now 404. Good advice from Charles Arthur: "It lives on, of course, in Google’s cache (no guarantee how long that will last, so I’ve taken a PDF)."

BBC NEWS: The Editors: Peter Barron: Online analysis

"Foreign Secretary David Miliband ... admitted - and this is a rarity for a politician - that he didn't know the answer to one of Jeremy's questions, and promised to clear up both points by posting something on our website."

New Statesman: Spies and their lies

"British intelligence has long used clandestine "undeniable briefings" to release information real and false to tame hacks including David Rose..."

Communitycare.co.uk: Fran Lyon Case: The hidden agendas

Community Care's story criticising the Daily Mail and the Sunday Telegraph: "yet again a delicate human story has been hijacked and misrepresented in the name of a vociferous campaign to undermine public confidence in the child protection system."

Gawker: The New Model: Newspapers Now Stuffed Full Of Blogs, But No Clue Where To Put Them

"Readers just don't come to a newspaper's website looking for a messy passel of blogs. They come looking for sports, or fashion, no matter what 'form' it's in."

FT.com: Local papers in 'decline' but DMGT confident

"Daily Mail and General Trust remains confident in the future of the UK newspaper industry in spite of the "slow and steady decline" of the print versions of local titles, according to Peter Williams, finance director."

The Herald: Public bodies more open but reluctant to obey spirit of FoI law, claims study

"Public bodies have become more open since the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act was implemented but are still reluctant to give details, new research suggests."

Invisible Inkling: A career move

A note to journalism students from Ryan Sholin: "Blogging about what you’re passionate about gets you work that you’re passionate about."

Independent: Junta restricts internet access

"A "window of information" is closing in Burma as the junta fights networks of disaffected citizens by restricting mobile phones and internet access, a leading dissident journalist said yesterday."

Reuters: LA Times accentuates its dot-comosity

"The LA Times plans to add about 100 people to its digital operations, with “a good chunk” of them to come from the print side," according LAT publisher David Hiller.

Economist.com: The magazine industry: Out of vogue

“It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines,” says Felix Dennis ... “but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.”

Comment is free: Andrew Gilligan: Get a life, Ally

Andrew Gilligan: "One of the many madnesses of the Kelly/Hutton affair was that Mr Campbell could have conceived such a furious hatred for a reporter he had never met."

BBC News: Nielsen sued over online ratings

"Prisa, the company that owns the Spanish newspaper El Pais, is suing Nielsen for revising downwards the number of unique users of ElPais.com."

Multichannel News: Al Jazeera English Steps Up U.S. Carriage Efforts

"Al Jazeera English chief Nigel Parsons says the network is stepping up efforts to gain U.S. cable or satellite TV distribution, and talks are going well with 'one of the majors.'"

Wall Street Journal: 'Citizen Journalists' Evade Blackout On Myanmar News

As Myanmar's regime cracks down on a growing protest movement, "citizen journalists" are breaking the news to the world.

paidContent: UK: Daily Mail Does An About-Turn; Decides To Advertise To Overseas Readers

Robert Andrews provides the context to Martin Clarke's apparent u-turn in Media Week: "while we will concentrate on growing our UK readership for the moment, we would be foolish not to take advantage of our following overseas"

Independent: BBC to rein in salaries of top stars as part of massive budget cut

"Sir Michael Lyons emailed staff yesterday to tell them the corporation would have to make 3 per cent annual savings and will focus on quality rather than quantity in programmes. He also ruled out closing any BBC channels before 2012."

Reuters: Myanmar apologises for journalist's death

"Japan strongly protested to Myanmar over the killing of a Japanese video journalist during an anti-government rally, and Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win offered apologies, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday."

Dorset Echo: Council Pays Out 5m To Be Told What To Do

"A Freedom of Information request by the Dorset Echo discovered Dorset County Council spent almost £5 million in the last four years [on consultant work their own staff should be doing]."

BBC News: Open Secrets: Better in Belfast

"The Information Commissioner Richard Thomas has marked [International Right to Know Day] by calling on public authorities to release more information proactively about their work."

Google News Blog: News sitemaps for publishers around the world

"If you're a news publisher and want greater control over how your articles get included in Google News, we've got a great opportunity for you: Today we made Google News sitemaps available globally"

Reuters: Internet 'has freed up discussion in China'

"The internet in China is not as restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most controls actually coming from sites practicing self-censorship, an academic who studies the Chinese web has said."

FT.com: Caution urged over future of Sunday papers

Andrew Neil tells the FT that "newspaper owners should keep Sunday special or run “huge risks” of losing a unique part of their business".

Matt Wardman: Alisher Usmanov PR Strategy Progress Report - Vastly Increased Profile (Humourous)

Both Schillings and Usmanov are much talked about in the blogsphere, as BlogPulse charts show. Surely there's a PR lesson in there somewhere?

Times Online: Video shows Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai 'being shot deliberately'

"Footage capturing the last, terrible seconds of Kenji Nagai’s life has been aired on Japanese television – horrifying a nation and raising official suspicion that the 50-year old photo-journalist was murdered by Burmese troops."

Ebay: 1974 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal

Ever wanted a Pulitzer Prize? One awarded to Newsday for public service newspaper journalism in 1974 appears to have been sold on Ebay for $4,000. (via Etaoin Shrdlu)

BBC News: Accounts from inside Burma

The BBC's log of material sent to it from people inside Burma.

Chicago Magazine: Campus Revolutionary

<a href="http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/01/14/the-conservatism-of-journalism-students/">Conservative journalism student</a> strikes again: “You lied to me!” a postgrad at Northwestern University's Medill journalism school tells the new dean. “I came here to learn to be a writer ... But you’re having us do all this video stuff. I didn’t come here for that.”

Times Online: All that glisters may not be gold

Questions put to the Bank [of England] under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that [the deterioriation of Britain's gold bullion] would temporarily reduce the gold’s £4bn value and make it more difficult to sell.

Out-Law.com: Dead woman's medical records case could undermine FOI law, says expert

"A dead woman's medical records should not be released because a duty of confidentiality survives her death, the Information Tribunal has ruled. ..."

Telegraph Blogs: Christopher Hope: Is the blogosphere too Conservative?

"Alastair Campbell thinks that British political blogs are too right wing. Last night at the Labour Party Conference Tony Blair’s former spin doctor called on lefties to start blogging."

William M. Hartnett: Observations on blog buffets apply to newspaper data centers, too

Choira Sicha's observation that newspaper web sites shouldn't segregate their blogs off from other related content applies to their "data center" sections as well.

The Long Tail: An independent filmmaker's lament

Jeff Back of Quietwater Films writes to Chris Anderson: "Your Long Tail theory is a basic and profound truth that I happily embrace AS A CONSUMER. But as a producer and creator of Long Tail content it is basically spelling out my doom."

Der Tagesspiegel: Innenansichten: FAZ jetzt neu: Titelseite, Online-Auftritt

Mercedes Bunz of Der Tagesspiegel has pictures of the immmenent redesign of the Frankfurter Allegemeine and its web site, FAZ.net.

Times Online: How to win web readers and influence people

Dan Sabbagh's media column covers some Google's Austalian general election site, Google News, Digg, Matt Drudge's effect on Mail Online's traffic in the US, and the slow online takeup of a print campaign in the Sun and the Telegraph. Whew.

The Observer: The Standard plays a smart card trick

Peter Preston on how Eros card could be a step towards UK newspaper publishers finally getting a better understanding of who reads their newspapers. The current "two-stage distribution system [is] notably short on useful data".

Editor & Publisher: Bank of America: Newspapers Should Be Getting More Credit for Online Transition

Bank of America research analyst Joe Arns finds that US online newspaper readers are now worth about 36% to 55% of the value of print readers, up from 28% to 42% in Q2 2006.

Steve Yelvington: The rising value of the online user

Steve Yelvington: "I continue to believe that the readership claims of newspaper websites are inflated by irrelevant, drive-by traffic that bloats the unique-user count and depresses derivatives such as revenue per user."

Spiegel Online: Interview with Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh: 'The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing

Hersh: "I'm asked the question all the time: What happened to my old paper, the New York Times? And I now say, they stink. They missed it. They missed the biggest story of the time and they're going to have to live with it."

The Huffington Post: CBS: Sy Hersh To Report U.S. Planning Iran Military Action

This certainly sounds very, very plausible: "we understand there's an article coming out in The New Yorker next week, Sy Hirsch [sic] talking about plans the Administration is making to go into Iran in a military way."

New Yorker: Shifting Targets: The Adminstration's plan for Iran

Seymour Hersh's latest: "This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government cons

International Herald Tribune: Why big newspapers applaud some declines in circulation

"Driven by marketing and delivery costs and pressure from advertisers, many [US] papers have decided certain readers are not worth the expense involved in finding, serving and keeping them."

Joho the Blog: The front page is dead, but not yet quite reborn

David Weinberger: "the new front page is distributed across our day and our network. Much of it comes through our inbox. It consists of people we know and people we don't know recommending items for our interest."

The Scoop: Teaching Data on the Web

"When I went looking for an intern to do mostly technical tasks for us at washingtonpost.com, I didn’t even bother with the local journalism departments. I found a computer science major instead. ..."

AFP: Japanese newspapers announce tie-up to combat threat of Internet

"Three of Japan's leading newspapers said Monday they would cooperate in their online productions and distribution, joining hands to maintain clout in an industry under threat from the Internet."

Editor & Publisher: MarketWatch Launches Facebook-Like Features

"Dow Jones' ... MarketWatch on Monday launched MarketWatch Community with tools that -- very much like Facebook and other community-building services .. -- allow registered users to build profiles and networks of friends, sharing news, commentary, and eve

Spiegel Online: Verwirrung um Web-Strategie: "Financial Times" rüstet gegen Kostenlos-Konkurrenz

Spiegel Online is confused. What is actually behind the FT's paywall at the moment, asks Konrad Lischka. You keep running into the paywall, but it's not clear what types of content are actually available only to subscribers.

Kristine Lowe: Who wants to write for newspapers when you can earn more delivering them?

"In Norway, the best paid newspaper delivery folks at Aftenposten, earn about £65 – 75K – that's much more than your average journalist in this country."

New York Times: CBSNews.com Chief to Lead a News and Blogs Site

"The Huffington Post ... plans to announce today the appointment of a new chief executive, Betsy Morgan, who will leave her job as the general manager of CBSNews.com."

BBC News: The Editors: Name Changes

Burma or Myanmar? Discuss.

Online Journalism Blog: A model for the 21st century newsroom pt2: Distributed Journalism

"Distributed journalism means letting go of one asset - content - to build another: community. It means cultivating contacts, not just a contacts book. It means understanding communities, and sometimes being led by them. And it means creating tools and sy

BBC Pods and Blogs: Some changes to Pods and Blogs...

Pods & Blogs presenter Chris Vallance is helping launch iPM on Radio 4. The show, which is set to start in November, is a new, "blog-powered" version of the PM programme's Saturday show.

Editorial Photographers UK: NUJ disunity helps no-one except the publishers we should be fighting

NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear responds to photographers over the Drogheda Independent row: "In local newspapers and in many online operations – with or without agreements – reporters are carrying cameras and photographers are writing copy."

Times Online: Reporter ‘told man to kill himself’

'A television journalist [in India] was charged yesterday with abetting suicide after he allegedly persuaded a depressed businessman to kill himself and his family live on camera."

Dave Lee jBlog: The Good Old Days

Dave Lee accuses Phillip Knightly, no less, of being a dinosaur after he told students at Lincoln University that “Print journalists should just do print" and that the Burma coverage would have been better if produced by foreign correspondents rather than citizen journalists.

Editors Weblog: Google News extends sitemaps for publishers

Google News extends sitemaps globally; Editor's Weblog is thinks Google is being evil. Errrr...

Google Maps Mania: NYTimes Archives Hack & Google Maps Mashup

"Times & Space is a very crude maps hack (best viewed in Firefox) combining the entire New York Times Archives with Google Maps."

Wobbing Europe: EU: Long expected report shows few journalist applications

Only 1.07 percent of applicants for access to documents in the European Commission in 2005 stated that they were journalists.

Index on Censorship: Britain: bloggers unite against threats

"Billionaire Alisher Usmanov's attempt to gag critical British websites backfired badly, and proved that freedom of speech is the one issue on which bloggers agree, writes Justin McKeating"

BBC News: Data row hits mobile mast website

"The future of [Ofcom's Sitefinder website] which details all the mobile phone masts in the UK is in doubt following a row over divulging "commercially sensitive" information." (Cough. Scrape! Cough.)

Simon Dickson: MessyMedia reveals its plans

A Gumtree job post suggests what Messy Media will be launching next...

Comment is free: Open door

Guardian readers' editor Siobhain Butterworth on why comments are closed on some Cif posts.

Editor & Publisher: 'Newsday' Pulitzer Prize Medals Missing From Safe

A few days ago, several Pulitzer Prize medals, awarded to Newsday in the 1970s, <a href="http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/09/29/ebay-1974-pulitzer-prize-gold-medal/">appeared on eBay</a>. Now Editor & Publisher reports that Newsday's Pulizers appear to be missing from a safe.

mad.co.uk: Telegraph.co.uk prepares to go mobile

"The Telegraph Media Group is gearing up to launch a mobile offering of its online website Telegraph.co.uk within the next six months ... According to Julian Sambles, audience development director at Telegraph.co.uk"

ScrippsNews: A look at the world through the lens of Al-Jazeera English

"But it's not just about telling the rest of the world what is happening from inside the Middle East out. It's also about telling the rest of the world about America," [Nigel Parsons] said, at a National Press Club forum in Washington, D.C."

Out-Law.com: FHM flirts with the highest risks of Web 2.0

"Kim Walker, an intellectual property and media law specialist, said that FHM is running a risk far higher than the wrath of the Press Complaints Commission, which ruled against FHM in August. The incident could have resulted in a prosecution under child

Rebuilding Media: Newspapers' iPod Moment.

Dorian Benkoll: "The iPod moment for newspapers will be when truly functional ePaper hits... color, touchscreen, wireless Internet built in, agnostic to standard, plays video, can work and read when not connected."

Hollywood Reporter: One-man show at ABC overseas bureaus

"After two decades of cutbacks in international bureaus, ABC News is bucking the trend by creating one-person operations that will dramatically boost its coverage in Africa, India and elsewhere."

FT.com: View from the Top: Peter Chernin

The FT interviews New Corp president Peter Chernin, who was recently quoted as saying his company would "crush" the FT. Chernin denies ever giving the Scotland on Sunday interview, saying it was a joke made to a reporter.

FT.com: News Corp warns Google over copyright