links for 2007-06-05
Tuesday, 5 June 2007, 13:21
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Are you a journalist of the “Ryan Sholin generation” or a member of the “of the curmudgeon class in newsrooms and J-schools”?
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“In trying to identify the different challenges one team of editors came up with a number of newsroom types: * The Fearful * The Cummudgeon * The hand holders * Young and keen”
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“Treasury officials are ordering the immediate destruction of “Gateway” internal reports into risky government IT schemes to prevent information on the projects being leaked.” (via UK FOIA Blog)
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Scott Karp on the New York Times liveblogging a debate: “this strikes me as the moment when blogs officially went mainstream and when journalism crossed a tipping point of evolving into the digital age.”
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Fame, Twitter fame at last!
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Associated Northcliffe Digital is standardising the way it measures and analyses web traffic across its 113 sites.
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WAN: Adam Pasick on Reuters’ Second Life Island, Richard Sambrook on the typology of UGC, and REbecca McKinnon on the unequal distribution of media coverage in the world.
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“Dennis Publishing is close to finalising the sale of its US magazines Maxim, Stuff and music title Blender to private equity firm Quadrangle Group for an estimated $250m (£125.4m).”
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The Shi Tao has won WAN’s Golden Pen of Freedom award
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Google is adding a system to allow public transport authorities to add information about buses and underground lines and their scheduling information to Google Maps.
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The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi takes a sceptical look at the economics of hyperlocal news sites, including WPNI’s suburban microsites.
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Peter Krasilovsky: “WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched ‘Local Explorer,’ which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for ‘mapped journalism.’”
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