links for 2007-06-05

Are you a journalist of the “Ryan Sholin generation” or a member of the “of the curmudgeon class in newsrooms and J-schools”?

“In trying to identify the different challenges one team of editors came up with a number of newsroom types: * The Fearful * The Cummudgeon * The hand holders * Young and keen”

“Treasury officials are ordering the immediate destruction of “Gateway” internal reports into risky government IT schemes to prevent information on the projects being leaked.” (via UK FOIA Blog)

Scott Karp on the New York Times liveblogging a debate: “this strikes me as the moment when blogs officially went mainstream and when journalism crossed a tipping point of evolving into the digital age.”

Fame, Twitter fame at last!

Associated Northcliffe Digital is standardising the way it measures and analyses web traffic across its 113 sites.

WAN: Adam Pasick on Reuters’ Second Life Island, Richard Sambrook on the typology of UGC, and REbecca McKinnon on the unequal distribution of media coverage in the world.

“Dennis Publishing is close to finalising the sale of its US magazines Maxim, Stuff and music title Blender to private equity firm Quadrangle Group for an estimated $250m (£125.4m).”

The Shi Tao has won WAN’s Golden Pen of Freedom award

Google is adding a system to allow public transport authorities to add information about buses and underground lines and their scheduling information to Google Maps.

The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi takes a sceptical look at the economics of hyperlocal news sites, including WPNI’s suburban microsites.

Peter Krasilovsky: “WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched ‘Local Explorer,’ which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for ‘mapped journalism.’”