"Do you know any rock star multimedia journalists? Should the nation idolize the people behind the journalism? Share your thoughts in the comments."

Commenter rips into Gavin O’Reilly’s view about the health of newspapers: "It’s fine for aul Gavin, investing in rising markets in India and Africa, but I don’t work there and I don’t invest there."

"Sketch Pad is a cool New York Times column that asks architects or designers to create a vision of what an apartment, house, loft or shack now for sale might look like in order to ‘help real estate shoppers learn to see past ugly paint, too-small kitchen

"The scrum for control of the Washington Post’s future … shuffles back and forth across the Potomac River. Priest, Hull, and hundreds of other Post editorial types work downtown. Their dot-com associates, meanwhile, do their biz in … Arlington…"

FT.com’s Cynthia O’Murchu explains how they produce multimedia feature packages: "Readers online don’t want to be forced to follow stories in a linear way".

Neil McIntosh: The report of the NUJ multimedia commission "shows a level of understanding completely absent from much of what the union has had to say about the web to date, and is a signficant step forward."

On integration done on the cheap: "it turns reporters into residual processors, it also carves the heart of our trade. Reprocessing didn’t bring us last week’s Mail on Sunday scoop about Labour funding. Reprocessing can’t cover wars or dive into foxholes.

"And here is one key pillar of Mecom’s European strategy: the notion that all journalists have to be able to work across different media. … This idea may be old hat to Brits but it is a big step in Germany, where two of the biggest newspapers … still

"Former multimedia war correspondent and Yahoo! newsman Kevin Sites talks about how online media pick up where traditional media leaves off."

"I was stunned by the scaremongering spread looking forward to next month’s report by the union’s Commission on Multi-Media Working. Particularly shocking was the reactionary, badly-argued piece headlined ‘Web 2.0 is rubbish’."

Some impressive slideshows from the Midland Daily News in Michigan.