"Sporting News will launch on July 23 Sporting News Today, a daily editorial product styled after a traditional newspaper but which will be e-mailed each morning to a list of subscribers…"

Yoni Greenbaum: "An approach that I’ve encouraged my reporters to use is to publish their own email newsletter, call it ‘[insert reporters name]’s Weekly Update.’"

Bill Thompson: "Each year I tell my students on the online journalism course at City University … hat once someone e-mails them from a work address then that person can never be guaranteed anonymity in future, simply because it is so easy for employers

Why should Google buy Yahoo? With the exception of search, Yahoo’s strengths map to Google’s weaknesses, almost precisely.

"Six percent of the mail coming into [The University of California, Berkeley e-mail system] in May 2007 — across all students, staff, and faculty — is from Facebook. For a single source — a single application — that is a staggering percentage."

Mark Hamilton quotes from Anna Politkovskaya and wonders: "Can we get to journalism like this solely by email or blog post? No." That just about says it all. End of silly blogospheric debate.

"The solution, and a good one at that: Podcast the interview. The reporter gets his quotes; the blogger gets his public interview; the public gets an extra piece of the story: Everyone’s happy. The question now, is how many of your sources would buy int

Scott Rosenberg says any reporter who doesn’t admit they prefer telephone interviews because they "hope to use the conversational environment as a space in which to prod, wheedle, cajole and possibly trip up their interviewee" is lying.

Jason Calacanis reflects on the email interview brouhaha: "Print is dead in the news role because it can’t keep up with the conversation–not because people don’t like print per se."

Scott Karp on the e-mail interview debate: "both sides are right and also wrong". "It’s so easy to say the old model is ENTIRELY broken and therefore we need to throw the WHOLE thing out. If only life were that simple — everything is so much easier in

Jeff Jarvis: "The interview is outmoded and needs to be rethought." … "in the time of the empowered interviewee".