links for 2007-06-05

Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 13:21

• PressThink: Twilight of the Curmudgeon Class
  Are you a journalist of the “Ryan Sholin generation” or a member of the “of the curmudgeon class in newsrooms and J-schools”?
  (tags: newspapers google googlenews education)
• Andy Dickinson: The Curmudgeon Class
  “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”
  (tags: Journalism newspapers newsroom education online)
• Computer Weekly: Civil servants told to destroy reports on risky IT projects
  “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)
  (tags: foi foia gatewayreviews treasury)
• Publishing 2.0: New York Times Live Blogging And The Transformation Of Journalism
  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.”
  (tags: newspapers nytimes blogging)
• Twitterati: More tweets from revamped Press Gazette
  Fame, Twitter fame at last!
  (tags: twitter press_gazette)
• Holdthefrontpage: Associated Northcliffe Digital’s new standard to help unravel the stats
  Associated Northcliffe Digital is standardising the way it measures and analyses web traffic across its 113 sites.
  (tags: andigital associated_newspapers daily_mail thisislondon intellitracker)
• Vincent Maher: Reuters Masterclass with Adam Pasick the Second Life journalist
  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.
  (tags: reuters bbc global_voices wan ugc secondlife second_life)
• Brand Republic: Dennis close to finalising sale of US magazines
  “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).”
  (tags: dennis_publishing quadrangle maxim stuff blender)
• Followthemedia: The Journalist Whom Yahoo Identified to Chinese Authorities And Now Languishes in Jail Serving 10-Years Wins WAN’s Golden Pen of Freedom
  The Shi Tao has won WAN’s Golden Pen of Freedom award
  (tags: press_freedom shitao yahoo pressfreedom journalism)
• Google LatLong: Hop on the bus, Gus. Or the train. Or the subway.
  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.
  (tags: googlemaps transport maps)
• American Journalism Review: Rolling the Dice
  The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi takes a sceptical look at the economics of hyperlocal news sites, including WPNI’s suburban microsites.
  (tags: citizenjournalism hyperlocal online journalism washingtonpost backfence)
• The Local Onliner: WashingtonPost.Com Launches ‘Local Explorer’
  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.’”
  (tags: mapping local washingtonpost journalism)

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