links for 2007-01-30

Tuesday, 30 January 2007, 12:28

• Emma Barnett: Newwws
  Ian Hargreaves: “TV channel news sites are the main source of online news.” Errrrr…
  (tags: online journalism)
• Leicester Mercury: Your right to know is under threat by cost-cutting moves to restrict the freedom of information act.
  Maurice Frankel says FOI changes will save the Government just £12m. “The National Audit Office says the Government could save £660 million by more careful purchasing of office supplies.”
  (tags: foi foia)
• New York Times: Vocal Minority Wants the Stock Tables Back
  “After torrents of reader complaints, two major papers said last week that they would restore some of their [printed share price] stings.”
  (tags: newspapers online agate wsj washingtonpost)
• Wordblog: Indy kills link to its blogs
  Andrew Grant-Adamson: “At last the Independent has done the decent thing and hidden its blogs.”
  (tags: independent newspapers blogs journalism)
• Slate: What exactly is the Wall Street Journal trying to say?
  Jack Shafer: “A well-lawyered newspaper distinguishes itself by the way it writes around something.”
  (tags: journalism law wsj)
• Innovations in Newspapers: Newspaper readers on podcasts
  The San Francisco Chronicle is turning its voicemails of readers’ complaints into podcasts — with some hilarious results.
  (tags: newspapers podcasting journalism subediting)
• Blog Herald: UK’s Shiny Media secures $4.5m in funding
  The Sunday Times reported that Shiny Media have secured US$4.5m worth of funding from Bright Station Ventures who now take a 50% stake in the company.
  (tags: blogs blogging)
• BBC Open Secrets: Guardian Angel?
  Information Commissioner Richard Thomas is supposed to be the guardian of the Freedom of Information Act. But Information Tribunal chairman John Angel is overturning many of Thomas’s decisions.
  (tags: foi foia informationtribunal)
• Huffyinthestreet: What newspapers can learn from the Wii News Channel
  “The Wii News Channel, courtesy the Associated Press. It’s fast; it’s flashy; it’s not without its flaws (I’ll get to this later); and newspapers should definitely take notice.”
  (tags: newspapers ap wii)
• RConversation: Global journalism, hiring, firing, and the Internet
  Journalists and journalism education need to adapt to new working realities, especially in international news.Rebecca Mackinnon has five ideas about what this means in practice.
  (tags: journalism education globalization)
• Reuters: Newspapers lose ground in Web-savvy schools: study
  One teacher says: “Students do not relate to newspapers at all, any more than they would to vinyl records.”
  (tags: Journalism education newspapers online)
• Blog Herald: Apple Compensates Bloggers For $700,000 In Legal Fees
  Apple has paid the defendants US$ 700,000 in legal fees after losing an appeal in the AppleInsider blogger source-protection case.
  (tags: journalism media law contempt sources apple blogs bloggers blogging)

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