Everyone who believes this discussion is over (myself included), is sadly mistaken. The first comment dispatches it elegently.

"[T]he trouble is, for many people, local news is boring and not relevant to them. And hyper-local (aka, local-local) is even more so. This is especially so for people who don’t have strong ties to the community in which they live."

"[R]eporters are effectively ‘embedded’, with all the ethical and professional considerations that that should entail. The question is, is the pressure to produce web video bringing newspapers too close to the police?"

"Beijing’s Gehua New Century Hotel, site of the official non-accredited media center for the Beijing Olympics in August, has rescinded its offer to pay journalists as much as 1000 yuan ($145) for positive stories."

NHS Behind the Headlines calls BS on the Star and Express: "This study cannot be taken as evidence that eating chocolate, and specifically Mars bars, will reduce your risk of bowel cancer, or any other type of cancer, or that it is ‘good for you’."

"The hybrid McClatchy–Knight Ridder DC operation is enjoying its biggest achievement to date. The subject matter of “Guantánamo: Beyond the Law” wasn’t new, exactly … But the depth of McClatchy’s treatment was unprecedented."

Student journalist rips Northcliffe’s (older) regional newspaper sites…

The full report is now avilable from the Medill Journalism School team studying the impact of location-based technologies on journalism.

Interesting PCC ruling that could have future implications for newspapers’ geotagging efforts. Also interesting because the existence of a Wikipedia article is part of the justification for allowing newspapers to report information.

"[M]ore than two out of four people in my newsroom are getting bought out or fired by the end of the summer. … No getting around this fact: It’s going to be pretty hard to produce a product that doesn’t totally suck with that kind of job-slashing. "

"When we journalists talk about integration we generally mean, integrating print and online activities. But the true integration comes online itself. The integration between journalists and citizens."

Kevin Marsh: ‘journalists have always been far more entranced by ‘the story’ than audiences. Less than a quarter of newspaper readers claim to read to the end of a story, even one they’re interested in ."

"Shooting the Messenger, Al Jazeera’s documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, investigates how international reporters became targets."