links for 2007-08-13
Monday, 13 August 2007, 13:24
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What happened to Al Jazeera’s Sami al-Haj
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“New Zealand Newspaper publisher APN News & Media began outsourcing editorial production work Sunday, a strategy being watched by media outlets in other countries”
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A strange assumption Adam Tinworth faces when teaching journalists about blogs: “blogs=IT”, which is a bit like “magazines=printing press”.
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“some of the harshest indictments of the press now come from the growing segment that relies on the internet as its main source for national and international news.”
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Parting shots from an ex-hack, including these wise words: “Journalists report facts, not truth. Why? Because if you can read this you’re literate, if you’re literate you can decide the truth for yourself.”
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“The quality British papers, particularly in their online editions, are much farther down the road toward what looks like the future of newspaper journalism, one that places a much higher premium on analysis and opinion than do serious American newspapers
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“Metro is set to launch in Dundee and Perth in the next few weeks as part of a major expansion around the UK. … [T]otal daily distribution of the free paper is set to rise from 1.1 million to 1.35m copies as every UK edition is beefed up.”
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Mike Soutar’s no-nudity pledge for Shortlist “reflects a minor revolution in the men’s magazine business in Britain, a proving ground for the “lads’ mag” phenomenon of the 1990s. The formula — a lowbrow blend of bare-breasted B-listers and bawdy
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ISPs “are warning they may have to restrict customers’ access to the BBC’s new iPlayer service unless the corporation contributes to the cost of streaming videos over the internet.”
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Pat Thornton: “Reporting the news with video isn’t exactly new. So, why would throwing some random video on your Web site all the sudden make you new media? It wouldn’t.”
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“Indeed, US reporters might fare better in Britain. Both the Contempt of Court Act and European rights laws acknowledge the right to protect sources.”
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“On Thursday, [Gannett] filed papers with the [SEC] that included a new change-of-control plan, one that would accelerate payments to top executives in the event of a corporate takeover.”
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“Gannett, owner of 84 daily newspapers and 23 TV stations, announced Friday the launch of 100 [WAP] mobile sites of breaking news, sports, weather and other local information … produced by Gannett Information Centers.”
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“Media professionals characterized it less charitably as an effort by engineers who do not understand the impracticalities of such a project on a large scale — for instance, how do you verify a source’s identity or screen for inaccurate statements?”
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Seamus McCauley takes issue with Henry Blodget’s newsprint-is-doomed analysis.
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