links for 2007-08-14

Student Online Journalist of the Year Jack Templeton,now at The News & Star, guest posts for Paul Bradshaw’s Online Journalism Blog about “how he won a unique position as a print news reporter-cum-online consultant”

The cliché I learned was “the only stupid question is the one you don’t ask” — this certainly applies to journalist Bob Keefe, who is currently being eviscerated by the Mac fanboy community for asking a perfectly reasonable question.

“Analysts see Murdoch cutting rates and the newsstand cost, which rose last month to $1.50 from $1, even though he declared during the conference call that he would not engage in “any price war.””

“A teenage photographer is suing a US porn film company for damages after it used a photo of her aged 14 on the front cover of one of its DVDs.”

Daily Show producer sacked from New York Metro column for writing: “Nobody reads newspapers anymore … As this very copy of Metro shows, the only way to get most people to read a newspaper is to literally force it into their hands.”

“journalism education is lagging behind industry in embracing the new media technologies that students will need to be competitive in the work place, according to a paper presented Friday.”

“The Audit Bureau of Circulations has launched an investigation into how magazine circulation data became publicly available a week before it was due for official release.”

Ryan Sholin say tehre are two camps on newspaper video strategy: “BiggerBetter” vs “FasterMore”. Pat Thornton comments: most are only doing “occasional junk”.