A few more — okay, a bunch more — interesting bits have shown up in the RSS reader:
- CBC bans employee blogging without permission – no politics or causes allowed. A report at Boing Boing. Giving a whole new meaning to the network’s nickname, the Mother Corp.
- The audience is the media and newspapers are just their platform. Andy Dickinson ties together a bunch of different writings to probe the connections between readers, hyperlocal reporting and print. I need to think more about this, and I need to continue to follow the conversation developing in the comments.
- How the Spokesman-Review is dealing with budget problems. Another long-time innovator bites the bullet: increased cover charge, section front ads and, of course, staff cuts.
- J-School Confidential: Off The Fence. At Media Bistro, young journalists are telling the tales of how their careers got started.
- The Seattle web wars. Interesting news from just down the road where the web wars are heating up and the TV stations are in the thick of things. I’m expecting that to become more and more the case in all media markets.
- The Dead Tree Digital Replacement Index. This is fascinating: Vin Crosbie has come up with a formula that compares newspapers’ print losses with their digital gains to measure how well online increases are offsetting print losses. I’ll leave it to those who are smarter than I am to see if there are holes to be poked in the formula, but it seems to make sense. And the news is not good.
