links for 2007-07-01
Sunday, 1 July 2007, 13:21
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Alistair Campbell talks to US public radio about Tony Blair’s relationship with the British media.
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PFJ survey: “Candidates with between 3 and 5 years experience command £24K in the local press but £35K for online titles – that’s 46% more. After five years that gap widens further – £30K compared with £45 online.”
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Alexa stats (usual disclaimer apply) suggest TechCrunch gets nearly as much traffic as the Guardian. Stephen Davies “Here’s a team of three (I think) compared alongside two national titles consisting of streams of professional journalists.”
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“For centuries, an encyclopedia was synonymous with a fixed, archival idea about the retrievability of information from the past. But Wikipedia’s notion of the past has enlarged to include things that haven’t even stopped happening yet.”
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CNN.com relaunched a day ahead of plan to cover the Glasgow airport story with its new site.
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Chris Dillow on why Gordon Brown and David Miliband are portrayed as wonks, geeks or swots: “One possibility is simply that anyone of above-average intellect will look like a freakish genius next to the average journalist.” Ouch.
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“It’s about time the industry faced reality: Registration doesn’t work. The information gathered is largely a database of lies. … Registration data is only useful to us when it’s also useful to the user.”
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1. Pat Thornton | 1 July 2007 at 1951
Martin,
I posted a review of the new CNN.com site at my blog (www.patthorntonfiles.com/blog).
Overall, I like it, especially compared to the old CNN site. It’s a technologically beautiful site. They just need to hire a few more journalists to really make it shine.
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