links for 2007-06-21

Thursday, 21 June 2007, 13:21

• NMA: News Corp uses MySpace to haggle with Yahoo!
  “News Corporation is considering selling MySpace to Yahoo! in return for a stake in the company, according to reports.”
  (tags: newscorp rupertmurdoch myspace yahoo)
• Heather Hopkins: Hitwise UK: YouTube to Overtake BBC in UK Visits
  “YouTube looks set to overtake BBC.co.uk in share of UK visits within a matter of weeks.”
  (tags: hitwise bbc youtube statistics metrics)
• The Indiepub Blog: Hyper Local Journalism, Video-Style
  Mac Slocum: “StoryBridge.tv is an interesting Web start-up that blends local coverage with professional video production. The “professional” bit gets a boost from Katy Sai and Jay Olsen, two former Wisconsin-based TV veterans who quit their jobs to launch
  (tags: citizenJournalism hyperlocal video storybridge)
• Publishing 2.0: Newspapers Should Embrace Online Aggregators
  Scott Karp: “The problem that newspapers and other traditional media brands have is that they still see branding as a function of controlling the distribution channel, rather than branding each unit of content that must now live and survive on its own”
  (tags: publishing journalism google yahoo aggregators googlenews)
• Etaoin Shrdlu: 3 … 2 … 1 … liftoff
  McClatchy’s new national website for public affairs journalism launched about noon Eastern time today: news.mcclatchy.com
  (tags: journalism usa regional national online)
• The New York Observer: New York Times Undertakes Multi-Bureau Rupert Murdoch Investigation
  “The New York Times is currently undertaking a major news investigation, led by managing editor Jill Abramson, into News Corp.’s business dealings throughout the world…”
  (tags: nytimes rupertmurdoch newscorp journalism)
• Telegraph: BBC ‘risked safety of troops’
  “The BBC was accused last night of risking the safety of British forces in Iraq after trawling for information on troop movements in the war-torn country.”
  (tags: bbc iraq journalism telegraph)
• Random Acts of Journalism
  A blog to watch and comment on — Jessica is graduate student at the University of Sussex looking at citizen media.
  (tags: citizenJournalism)
• Businessweek: Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online
  An impressive BusinessWeek chart shows what different age groups of US internet users are doing online (via Alfred Hermida).
  (tags: internet interactivity age participation infographics visualisation BusinessWeek)
• Media Culpa: Metro pays bloggers per page view
  “Metrobloggen [is] a new blog tool where the free daily Metro offers its hosted bloggers 3 öre (about half a US cent) per page view.”
  (tags: sweden metro bloggers blogs blogging free newspapers)
• Netzeitung: Online-Videos bald auch von dpa
  Germany’s DPA agency joins the online video race.
  (tags: video online agencies dpa germany journalism mecom)
• Telegraph Blogs: Getting it wrong
  Shane Richmond says two Andrews — Keen and the The Register’s Orlowski — are very wrong indeed in their analyses. Orlowski says newspapers are engaged in a lemming-like rush to put their content online for free. A bit like the Register, obviously.
  (tags: andrewkeen andreworlowski the_register)
• SND Update Blog: New director in Western Europe
  Alan Formby-Jackson, sub-editor and designer at the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough, is the new director of the Western Europe region of the Society of News Design.
  (tags: news design teesidegazette)
• Guardian: Lords warn against curbs on FoI
  “Parliament’s reputation is “at serious risk” from attempts to exempt its members from the freedom of information act, [The all-party Lords constitution committee] warned today.”
  (tags: foi foia parliament lords)
• yelvington.com: Stop shoveling, start building
  Steve Yelvington: “Every day, millions of pieces of information stream through the newsrooms of every newspaper in the world. … Very little is put to good long-term use.”
  (tags: news wikis community online journalism)

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