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

"[F]or the second and now … third quarters of 2008, the company has reduced the rate of pay per pageview."

Peter Kirwan: "[A]nyone thinking of buying Trinity Mirror at the moment should think in terms of paying money for its digital operation — and picking up print for free as part of the deal."

"[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?"

Matt Wardman: "Anybody who thinks that any web traffic measuring process (even the “gold standard” ABCe version) can meaningfully distinguish differences between competing websites of well under 1% has not done their homework."

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Gehua New Century Hotel, site of the official non-accredited media center for the Beijing Olympics in August, has rescinded its offer to pay journalists as much as 1000 yuan ($145) for positive stories."

3D sculpture of the Twitter Fail Whale.

"The Irish Times will publish under its own title online from Monday morning with the launch of a new site for the newspaper, www.irishtimes.com . Access to the site will be free."

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’."

"Who could win in this? Who always wins these days – Google, of course. … Well, with more confusion in names, we’ll all end up having to search Google more often."

"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."

"The US and the EU are nearing completion of an agreement allowing law enforcement and security agencies to obtain private information — like credit card transactions, travel histories and Internet browsing habits — about people on the other side of t