Mark Glaser interviews the two journalists who work on Josh Marshall’s TPM Muckracker site.

After reading a PG interview with Martin Bell, Kamm comments: “My criticism of BBC journalism is that it is far too concerned with avoiding offence. Rather than being ‘biased’, as many critics … charge, the BBC has the opposite problem of confusing th

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Editorial Photographers UK claims the Mirror’s digital archive project “could be the largest breach of copyright ever attempted by a UK publisher.”

There will be no formal consulation on proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Act fees regime. The Campaign for FOI is encouraging people to write directly to Lord Falconer.

Google has launched some new webmaster tools that allow publishers whose sites are included in Google News to define which articles appear in the aggregator.

… more details of the new Google News webmaster tools.

Rachel Sterne looks at the various models that citizen journalism projects have used to pay their contributors.

Tom Grubisich has updated his 2005 OJR article which argued that hyperlocal citizen journalism initiatives had until then failed to live up to their promise. What has happened 12 months later?

The Editors Weblog interviews Guardian foreign editor Harriet Sherwood.

Bloggers have been responding to the New York Times gushing story about the 21-year-old blogger behind the US television news and gossip site TVNewser. One says he wouldn’t have a chance to execute something similar at (ahem) a traditional trade magazine.

“People employed by the mainstream media are always intrigued (threatened?) when powerful people who used to get their news from the MSM begin to mention that they also get their news from people who create personal web-based media.”

Marketwatch’s Thomas Kostigen worries that the availability of statistics - and social news aggregators like Digg - are tempting him into journlistic populism. Is this really a problem?

Charles Lewis, who founded the Center for Public Integrity, is not quite sure what to make of social networks as a tool for journalism, but is optimistic. The key issue is how to produce investigative reports that are on solid legal footing.

“[T]op reporters and columnists at major newspapers are realizing (or will realize soon) that their fates are not necessarily tied to those of their employers.” Just one line from a great reimagining of the unbundled newspaper.

[T]he California Supreme Court ruled Monday that individual Internet users cannot be held liable for republishing defamatory statements written by others.”

Mark Potts looks at the significance of two Washington Post reporters’ decision to jump ship in favour of a new political web site.

The vibrant, dissenting blogosphere in Iran “rather undermines the view of blogging as frivolous and self-indulgent. At the moment, it is the only channel for free expression in Iran.”

Claire Georges explains what the staff of professional journalists do at Korean citizen journalism site Ohmynews.

Rob Curley: “There is big “J” journalism and little “j” journalism, and I feel newspapers have the obligation to provide both for their communities. We have to do all that we can to continue to be the Fourth Estate — to be the watchdogs. But we

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Seven US newspaper chains representing 176 newspapers have signed a deal with Yahoo that will see their classified advertisements appear on Yahoo’s job site HotJobs and will eventually have local news tagged and optimised for Yahoo’s news portal.

Susi Wease, who has been posting one-minute video reviews on YouTube for Shiny Shiny, has landed a job with the BBC as a presenter on BBC2’s Something for the Weekend.

The New York Times has a profile of Brian Stelter, the student behind the TVNewser blog that has become required reading in the US television news industry.

Ross Levinsohn has resigned as president of FIM and will be succeeded by Peter Levinsohn, president of digital media for the Fox Entertainment Group.

Journalists at the WSJ are the latest to rebel against the growing list of new media tasks they are having to do.

“If newspapers simply reproduce, in the digital world, the same crusty, ill-informed bundle of prejudices they express in print, they will fail.”

(Ugh. You spend a Friday at some awards thing, and what happens? You get scooped, that’s what.) The Mirror will launch a searchable PDF archive in January. Great stuff.

Seamus McCauley looks at the Craigslist decision and asks: “Is liability for what goes on online tipping ever more from the media owner to the user?”

Blogger Josh Wolf, who is in a US prison for contempt after refusing to turn over a tape he shot at a demonstration, could remain jailed until July. “If that happens, Mr. Wolf, who has served 88 days, will be the longest-incarcerated journalist in recent

David Cohn at NewAssignmet.net looks at why MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe were right to be included in the PG “New Establishment” list.

Universal Music has sued MySpace for copyright infringement. “The foundation of MySpace is its so-called user-generated content,” the suit states, adding this is “user-stolen intellectual property of others, and MySpace is a willing partner in that

“It’s time for Silicon Valley to accept the same laws that govern the rest of American business, says Fortune’s Adam Lashinsky.”

Footage from cameras located in Tesco in Barrow is now on view to the public on YouTube following a security breach.

The New York Times has a new news blog It’s called “The Lede”. See what they’re doing there? Clever, eh?

Curierul National in Romania has relaunched. And the design will look familar to those on Farringdon Road.

Google News launches in Sweden and Norway.

The Economist looks at the various ways that people are making a living just by blogging. One interesting snippit: John Battelle comparing the cost of one new Wired subscriber to the cost of growing his blog’s audience.

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AJE is available in the United States on satellite network GlobeCast and two Internet-based services. It’s still not available on cable. “It would be naive to think that politics had nothing to do with it,” says Washington anchor Dave Marash.

PRs should stop snubbing student journalists, says former Telegraph.co.uk editor Richard Burton. “Aren’t these the very people you’ll be phoning, emailing, and dragging in front of your clients in a few years’ time?”

A vote in the Council of Ministers confirms that EU countries will not have to regulate internet video. Whew.

Kevin Anderson responds to John Humphrys by exploding three common myths about blogs that are being perpetuated by journalists.

Perhaps not “better”, but no concession on “faster” — which is pretty important in the online news business.

The Guardian’s Charles Arthur likes Adrian Holovaty’s notion of the programmer-journalist. But then he tried it for himself…

Kevin Geary of BBC Interactive told the World Audio Festival in the Netherlands that more people see Newsnight videos on YouTube than on the BBC web site. And the Beeb doesn’t call it “citizen journalism” — but we knew that bit already.

Reuters has invested $7m in Pluck, the company behind BlogBurst syndication network.

The excellent Dutch new media blog De Nieuwe Reporter has a audio interview (conducted via Skype) with BBC Interactivity editor Vicky Taylor. Topics include the user-generated content hub which she runs and why the BBC doesn’t use the term “citizen journa

Rupert Murdoch: “In our major markets, the United States, Australia, Great Britain, advertising is pretty flat, some places it’s down a fraction and other places it’s up a fraction, but nowhere would you say is the consumer marketing economy buoyant.”

Amanda Congdon, the former host of the popular video blog Rocketboom, has been hired by ABC News. She will video blog on technology and appear on the network’s broadband channel, ABC News Now.

I won’t join the assault on Peter Scheer’s wacky idea to keep news secret to protect newspapers — Mathew Ingram has already rounded up all the relevant abuse.

“When [Richard Desmond's newspapers, the Express and the Star] die I just hope no one suggests they are victims of the rise of the internet. Newspapers can still die because they are crap.”

“In the rush to the Internet is anyone thinking of how to make long form journalism even more appealing to audiences?”

Backfence chief exec Susan DeFife says the hyperlocal web site model is working. Ten per cent of people in its coverage areas have used the sites and 1 per cent have posted to them.

What are the legal implications, particularly for privacy, of the ubiquity of camera phones?

Blogs are built to capitalize on the power of the Long Tail. First, you need to focus your blog on the segment of the conversation you care passionately about - and stick to it.

Just as blogs are not a publishing strategy, the web is not just another edition of a traditional publication. The web is about being timely, useful, interactive and entertaining, says Steve Yelvington.

An Ipsos MORI poll found that blgos are a more trusted source of information than TV advertising or e-mail marketing. Among their European counterparts, Britons are the least switched on to blogs.

Kevin Anderson: “Yes, blogs allow us to focus on niches. Yes, websites in general and blog in particular promise a bottomless newshole that we can fill with additional content. But it’s the engagement that really matters.”

Simon Waldman has called for the online publishing industry to develop a sustainable business model for distributed content.