Wednesday squibs

From the reader today:

• The 7 Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine… in Full. Seven very good reads, including Richard Ben Cramer’s classic “What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?”
• 10 changes in journalists role (and 5 things that remain the same). A great spot-on post from Alex Gamela that offers as good a list as I’ve seen of the skills now required for being a journalist.
• Old Media Interview: Stephanie Romanski, Web editor of The Grand Island Independent. A great interview with Stephanie about battles fought, victories won (and a stalemate or two) by the web editor of a smalltown newspaper. Old Media, New Tricks earlier interviewed Erica Smith, another piece worth reading.
• Stuff White People Like: Journalism? A think piece about journalism and “overculture.” It’s really worth reading and giving some thought to.
• Why feds won’t bail out newspapers. The idea that the U.S. government should bail out media companies is a silly one. Alan Mutter explains why, in great detail, an explanation that includes the fact that media is not that big a player in the overall U.S. economy.
• Bad week for user-generated video. The problem is money, and the user-generated stuff doesn’t make any.
• Will Newspapers be the New Newsweeklies? Mark Potts wonders if the Christian Science Monitor model (internet all week, news magazine on the weekends) isn’t a viable future for other dailies. Very much related: Martin Langeveld’s The bottom line: how it fares when you nuke your newspaper, in which he argues a two-day-a-week newspaper makes sense for a lot of daily publishers.
• UK’s Independent Axing Quarter Of Editorial, Says Online Requires Fewer Editors. From across the pond. Other (un)employment news: Study: U.S. publishers increasingly offshoring to India and Goldman Lets Newspaper Analyst Go (No More Companies To Follow).
• Amazing Photojournalism: Where to find the best in news photography. More links from Mark Luckie, and a great set they are. I’m hoping people throw more links into the comments.