Monday squibs

I moved over the weekend and fell way behind on my reading. I’ve probably missed some interesting stuff from the past few days, but I have found these:

• CBC parliamentary reporter fed questions to MP, probe finds. The reporter, who seems to have shown an incredible lack of judgment, has been reassigned.
• Ousted Los Angeles Editor Assails Tribune Co. Editor won’t make newsroom cuts, editor gets fired. Howard Owens dissects one of his parting shots.
• The Atlantic, monthly mag, to go free online. The magazine, apparently, just realized the online version is more than just a marketing tool.
• IndyStar.com uses time-lapse photography for NFL. The Star produces some interesting work, using flipbooks because they get around NFL restrictions on video. Can we expect a crackdown on audio slideshows next?
• The truth about free newspapers. Piet Bakker is the guy when it come to understanding freesheets. He has provided some interesting facts and figures to the World Editor & Marketeer conference , including this: “Free newspapers don’t necessarily reach the target audience they claim to reach.”
• Technical skills in journalism jobs. Interesting tag cloud of the technical skills from journalism job advertisements. Are these pointers for the near future for j-school grads?
• Our disgruntled young journalists. Sean Blanda: “I believe that 2008 will be the beginning of a movement in journalism where graduates will opt to carve their own path rather than be another layoff at a slow adopting newspaper or magazine.” Interesting post; interesting comments.
• Be a multimedia McGuyver – 101 DIY tools and techniques for cool, professional photo, audio and video gear on the cheap. Oh my this is a long, interesting list.
• iJournalism: stop the presses, reporters with cell phone cameras. Just because you can cover politicians with a cameraphone doesn’t mean you should, although Dennis Dunleavy sees some value in expanding the visual record. But compare Mother Jones’s happy snapping with some real political photojournalism.
• Twenty days. Twenty thousand still images. A single message. Kots of people are pointing to this exceptional piece of journalism from the Toronto Star. It truly is astonishing.