links for 2007-06-17

Sunday, 17 June 2007, 13:27

• Readership Institute: Get Smart About Your Readers
  “Many go to journalism school because they like to write. They don’t think of themselves as techie-types and certainly not as math-types. But these two skills – understanding of technology and comfort with math and statistics – are ever more important for
  (tags: journalism education technology numeracy mathematics)
• Observer: Why the Sundays are still special
  Peter Preston: Daily growth has not come on a weekday. It has arrived with the weekend, and reading time to spare. The five days of the toilsome week are crisis time for circulation managers. It’s the 24/7 nature of rolling news that casts an immediate sh
  (tags: newspapers circulation saturday sunday weekday)
• Independent on Sunday: Upmarket ‘Panorama’? ‘The Spaghetti Tree was more rooted in reality’
  Ex-Panorama man Tom Mangold slams the programme in the Independent on Sunday. Apparently the WiFi episode was its most “embarassiing” “turkey”. An interesting statement, given the paper it’s published in…
  (tags: independent indepdentonsunday panorama bbc wifi journalism)
• On The Media: The Shadow of Watergate
  Alicia Shepard, author of a new book, explains the myth of “Woodstein”, explains why the Washington Post reporters get too much of the credit for the Watergate story.
  (tags: watergate journalism washingtonpost)
• Sunday Times: BBC report damns its ‘culture of bias’
  “The BBC is institutionally biased, an official report will conclude this week. The year-long investigation, commissioned by the BBC, has found the corporation particularly partial in its treatment of single-issue politics such as climate change, poverty,
  (tags: bbc journalism)
• Rex Hammock: Do kids spend more time online than watching TV?
  Rex Hammock: “I challenge anyone to provide a link to research showing that … youth today do not rely on TV or magazines for any of their information.”
  (tags: magazines television journalism youth)
• Mashable: Network Map Shows Regional Stats of Facebook Users
  “Network Map is a new Facebook application built by Sami Fouad, to show a visual representation of Facebook’s network stats on a Google map.”
  (tags: facebook googlemaps)
• Chicago Tribune: What if the press baron returns?
  “It’s the worst nightmare for executives at Sun-Times Media Group Inc.: Conrad Black, the company’s former chief executive, is acquitted of criminal charges and regains his position as the company’s controlling shareholder.”
  (tags: chicagosun-times conrad_black)
• Mathew Ingram: William Safire on blogs and journalism
  Safire: “Whether you’re a blogger or whether you’re The New York Times or CBS or The Wall Street Journal, if what you are doing is aimed at informing the public, then you’re a journalist, whether you get paid for it or not.”
  (tags: nytimes blogs journalism)

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