"[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?"

"The Birmingham Post has become the first UK newspaper to cover an event by both broadcasting live on the internet and blogging."

"Last.fm, the social music service that CBS Interactive acquired last year, is venturing into original content for the first time with a new video series called Last.fm Presents."

"The Associated Press has launched a new syndication feature for members of its Online Video Network (OVN), enabling uploaded video to be shared with the rest of the network."

Loïc Le Meur looks at how important news finds him via the various social tools he uses online. This is how geeks and young readers find information. Advice to publishers: understand this now. (via Adam Tinworth)

"On Thursday, [Sports Illustrated] will introduce the Vault, a free site within SI.com that contains all the words Sports Illustrated has ever published and many of the images, along with video and other material, in a searchable database."

"Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has been shortlisted for foreign correspondent of the year in the British Press Awards. He will be filing a series of remarkable profiles of ordinary Iraqis every day this week."

A good roundup of what regional newspapers are doing with video online.

"[On Thursday, the BBC] launched embedded media (see an example here) across the BBC News and Sport sites. … you will eventually be able to syndicate and embed BBC video in your own sites."

"Broadband firms are having to restrict customers’ usage because of the unprecedented success of the BBC’s iPlayer, the online viewing service."

From online viral from Germany to local newspaper nib in England. But why?

"If you’re the "bearer" a [Major League Baseball] press pass, here are some of the new, unbearable rules…"

"[A]s before this is not [News Reporter Stuart White]’s fault. Step up owners Surrey and Berkshire Newspapers Limited, part of the Guardian Media Group."