links for 2007-08-26

“Steven Seagal isn’t a name you’d expect to find at the center of a journalism blog battle—including an interesting one that hinges on the meaning of ‘declined to comment.’”

Top tips for online newspapers, based on lessons learned.

Stuart Bruce: “[Tom Coates] is listed in media databases. The problem isn’t that he’s listed, but that most PR people are stupid and lazy when it comes to using media databases.”

“It’s not like it used to be when clippings would just molder in the morgue of the newspaper office,” said Craig Whitney, standards editor for the New York Times, who said the Times frequently fields requests to alter archives.”</p>

“Why are newspapers and magazines recruiting bloggers? What’s in it for them? What, in effect, are they buying?”</p>