links for 2007-05-31

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.”

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.”

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

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.”

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”.

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.”

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