Feeling somewhat better today, with just enough energy to pass along these:
- Stuff journalists like. Like Stuff White People like, but for journalists. Some of it is flat-out hilarious.
- Japan: Newspaper industry “relatively recession-proof” but dying. No punches pulled with that headline. The article names the usual suspects, including an aging population and youth who don’t read newspapers.
- Video: Dan Burnett on linking defamation case. Lawyer and adjunct j-prof explains the significance of the court ruling that, in cases of defamation, linking is not republication. I mentioned this Canadian case yesterday; Burnett explains how big a decision this is for anyone who links.
- Christian Science Monitor to Cut Daily Print Edition. Lots of sites have this news; this Poynter column is as good a place as any to start with the news that the CSM will publish only a weekly print magazine and move its daily journalism to the web next spring. While there are special circumstances for the CSM, this feels like an historical decision. Pat Thornton has a great take on this, too. Related business news: Bluffton, SC daily paper will no longer be free (it’s the only way to bring in more money, apparently) and New York Times To Staff: Relax, We’re Not Firing You Yet.
- Frank magazine folds. Satirical magazine that was once a must-read for Canadian pols and political junkies can’t make its business model work. Also from Canada: Carleton Free Press closing and, related to that, CAJ calls on Ottawa to stiffen competition act after loss of award-winning weekly paper.
- CNN to offer wire service to newspapers. Did AP’s troubles just get a little deeper?
- Searching dirty. No, not porn, but tips for finding private stuff that sometimes leaks out onto the web. I seem to recall, but am not certain, that I found this through the ever-valuable Amy Gahran. Speaking of stuff to help journalists, there are a ton of tutorials on all aspects of multimedia storytelling at the Knight Digital Media Centre.
- Better online video for news: Short movies = long pictures. I’m not entirely convinced by these arguments about how video should be used be newspapers. Your mileage may vary.
- Thoughts on Age. A very nice piece that points out that emerging-photographer pieces always feature folks in their 20s and 30s, and never those who have a lifetime of experience behind them and start emerging later in life. Worth thinking about.
- Time to move on… Colin Mulvany updates us on his situation at the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Go give it a read to see the type of determination that journalism needs now. (And no, there is no contradiction between my admiration for Colin and my support for departed editor Steve Smith.)
