links for 2007-06-18

Doug Fisher: “Now comes a complaint from the Oregonian’s editor that the NCAA threatened to yank that papers credentials for the College World Series because editors watching the Oregon super-regional on TV were filing updates to the paper’s Web site.”

Todd Oppenheimer: “Unfortunately, the citizen journalism practitioners — and their accomplishments — aren’t nearly as numerous as their hyper-visible promoters would have us believe.”

Andrew Grant-Adamson: “[B]logging on the media is somewhat constrained and narrow – rather like discussing the future of politics with members of one party only. On the whole those who believe that revolutionary change is taking place and and enjoy it are

“The BBC is planning a more aggressive push for international audiences and advertising revenues with an overhaul of its overseas television lineup … [which] will include new US-focused news programmes for BBC America.”

Emily Bell on offensive comments: “[W]e’ve taught the bloggers what they know. When columnists put out hard-hitting columns the responses are hard-hitting”. CiF editor Georgina Henry: “”Anonymity is not a liberal value.”

“[The 'feral beasts' speech's] tone seemed mildly influenced by John Lloyd’s 2004 meisterwork What The Media Do To Our Politics… by the happiest of coincidences he does happen to be a director of the Reuters Institute.”

“FT.com, has 90,000 subscribers paying a minimum of £99-a-year, a fact which no doubt helped convince Ridding that a £1.30 price for the paper was sustainable. FT.com now produces 60 videos a month, specialising in filmed interviews with business leader

Funding for Norwich’s controversial municipal wifi project, will run out within the next 12 months unless Norfolk County Council can find a way to keep it going.

The “Integrated Newspaper Footprint Study” by Scarborough Research in the United States has found a high degree of overlap in the use of online and print versions of newspapers.