links for 2007-05-05

Saturday, 5 May 2007, 12:20

• 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.”
  (tags: rupertmurdoch nytimes wsj dowjones newspapers journalism)
• 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.”
  (tags: foi foia informationtribunal idcards)
• 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
  (tags: journalism skills education multimedia online)
• Folio Magazine: Ziff Davis Caught in Bloggers’ Crosshairs
  Are sponsored inline links unethical?
  (tags: journalism ethics online magazines)
• 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.”
  (tags: military blogs bloggers milblogs)
• 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.”
  (tags: journalism education)
• 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…
  (tags: independent newspapers scanners blogs)
• Shane Richmond: My Telegraph: the early versions
  Shane Richmond shows the evolution of the soon-to-be-launched Telegraph blogging site.
  (tags: telegraph blogs design)
• 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.
  (tags: environment free newspapers london metro londonlite thelondonpaper recycling)

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