links for 2007-06-06
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“Hyperlocal journalism is just a fad term for what good community papers have been doing for hundreds of years. It’s a fad term for the kind of nuts-and-bolts community coverage many daily newspapers abandoned in the wake of Woodward and Bernstein.”
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A wanted man was arrested following a tip from someone who had seen him on Sky News’ interactive crime map.
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German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel releaunches online. Before and after pics.
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“[T]he first half of My Telegraph, community, was about bringing blogs to people who had never tried them before, so the second half, personalisation, is about bringing news feeds to novices.”
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More about City Room at the New York Times.
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“Video games could be used to train the journalists of the future, according to the developers of one upcoming title that casts the player not as an action-hungry warmonger, but as a freelance reporter.”
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“Newspaper Web sites might reap the most from local advertisers spending online but a new study reveals online newspapers are losing share.”
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