links for 2006-11-20

Monday, 20 November 2006, 18:17

New York Times: 176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership With Yahoo

Seven US newspaper chains representing 176 newspapers have signed a deal with Yahoo that will see their classified advertisements appear on Yahoo’s job site HotJobs and will eventually have local news tagged and optimised for Yahoo’s news portal.

(tags: yahoo newspapers classifieds)
BBC News Online: BBC signs YouTube gadget reviewer

Susi Wease, who has been posting one-minute video reviews on YouTube for Shiny Media, has landed a job with the BBC as a presenter on BBC2’s Something for the Weekend.

(tags: journalism youtube bbc shinymedia)
New York Times: The Kid With All the News About the TV News

The New York Times has a profile of Brian Stelter, the student behind the TVNewser blog that has become required reading in the US television news industry.

(tags: television journalism usa blogs bloggers)