Jun
18
From the web:
- AP and the Media Bloggers Assoc. I’m finding it hard to get excited about AP’s attempt “to set standards” for use of AP material by bloggers, but if you are exited, Mathew Ingram’s post is one of the best of the bunch. Related: The Real Threat to AP by Dorian Benkoll.
- Today’s news on the business. More posts on the sad state of the industry: Analysts slash prices for Australia’s top media stocks (and one of those companies is owned by our own CanWest), Taiwan daily lays off half its staff (which amounts to between 500 and 600 people:wow, big staff), McClatchy on McClatchy (looking at how McClatchey newspapers covered their recent layoffs), Newspaper Roundup: Tribune Bankruptcy Speculation; Gannett, NYTCo May Numbers, Sun-Times, Shared presses will squeeze deadlines (Alan Mutter on one of the effects of some of the McClatchey moves) and Bloomberg: Tribune, MediaNews could default on billions.
- 20 questions about polls. Questions reporters need to ask when reporting polls. Number one on the list: why do we spend so much time reporting on polls? (Just kidding, that’s a personal peeve.) This really is a helpful resource.
- PJ ethics during convergence. Mark Hancock is passionate on the subject of photojournalism ethics and it shows in this long post. Well worth reading and thinking about. Related (and also worth reading and thinking about) Photojournalism Ethics is an ivory tower by Andy Dickinson.
- Burmese editor arrested for helping cyclone victims. Good grief.
- Anna Politkovskaya: four charged over Russian journalist’s murder. The Guardian report includes this: “Politkovskaya’s colleagues at Novaya Gazeta, the small liberal newspaper where she worked, said they were deeply sceptical that the investigation had got to the bottom of her murder.”
