links for 2007-04-06

“A Zimbabwean cameraman abducted from his home in the capital, Harare, last week has been murdered.”

You find the strangest things in online archives, like this 2000 report about the unfortunate accident of some regional newspaper hack… (Hat Tip: Noiseman)

Words fail me. The usually formidable Jemima Kiss gets regional journalism monstrously wrong, and manages to sound horribly elitist in the process.

The US version of Dennis’s great dead tree aggregator The Week will produce an online-only edition on 20 April.

Alfred Hermida: “What would happen if you apply the design ideas of social media to news? This is exactly what my friends over at Hop Studios in Vancouver have done in a project they call Flickring the News.”

Die Welt goes web-frist, and pageviews are up 40 per cent.

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

“[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?”

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?

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.

“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.”

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

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

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