links for 2007-01-19

Jim McClellan: “The more you talk to students who want to do Journalism degrees, the more you realise that they have a much more expanded idea of what journalism is, compared to the kind of thing validated/taught by the NCTJ.”

Independent jorunalists’ “real complaints ought to concentrate on the paper’s failure to build for the future by grasping the potential of new media.” (Read the first two comments, too!)

More required reading from Andy Dickinson, who has improved on his great typology of what papers in the UK and the US are doing with online video.

David Cohn provides some examples of web sites using online mapping and crowdsourcing for complex local investigations.

NYT reporter Tim Weiner: “It occurred to me that we ought to revive the tradition here of interviewing people whose deaths are likely to be Page One news for their obituaries,” Weiner said. “And do it in high definition video.”

“Italian free business oriented newspaper 24 Minuti, the ‘light’ version of financial paper Il Solo 24 Ore, now has its own website were also een pdf-version of the two editions of the paper can be downloaded.”

"Copiepresse … issued a new warning Thurday to Yahoo’s French division to stop reproducing snippets of Belgian press reports."