links for 2007-06-06

“Hyperlocal journalism is just a fad term for what good community papers have been doing for hundreds of years. It’s a fad term for the kind of nuts-and-bolts community coverage many daily newspapers abandoned in the wake of Woodward and Bernstein.”

A wanted man was arrested following a tip from someone who had seen him on Sky News’ interactive crime map.

German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel releaunches online. Before and after pics.

“[T]he first half of My Telegraph, community, was about bringing blogs to people who had never tried them before, so the second half, personalisation, is about bringing news feeds to novices.”

More about City Room at the New York Times.

“Video games could be used to train the journalists of the future, according to the developers of one upcoming title that casts the player not as an action-hungry warmonger, but as a freelance reporter.”

“Newspaper Web sites might reap the most from local advertisers spending online but a new study reveals online newspapers are losing share.”