links for 2006-11-21

“People employed by the mainstream media are always intrigued (threatened?) when powerful people who used to get their news from the MSM begin to mention that they also get their news from people who create personal web-based media.”

Marketwatch’s Thomas Kostigen worries that the availability of statistics – and social news aggregators like Digg – are tempting him into journlistic populism. Is this really a problem?

Charles Lewis, who founded the Center for Public Integrity, is not quite sure what to make of social networks as a tool for journalism, but is optimistic. The key issue is how to produce investigative reports that are on solid legal footing.

“[T]op reporters and columnists at major newspapers are realizing (or will realize soon) that their fates are not necessarily tied to those of their employers.” Just one line from a great reimagining of the unbundled newspaper.

[T]he California Supreme Court ruled Monday that individual Internet users cannot be held liable for republishing defamatory statements written by others.”

Mark Potts looks at the significance of two Washington Post reporters’ decision to jump ship in favour of a new political web site.