George Brock bespricht eine vierbändige Anthologie mit Reportagen von Herodot bis heute - typischer und bester TLS-Stil. Reportagen sind viel älter als der professionelle Journalismus, und sie können ihn überleben.
Jounalismus-Studentinnen berichten in Blogs über den Vorwahlkampf in den USA; Frank Washkuch über einen Kurs an der University of Washington und Neudefinitionen von "Journalismus" und "Newsroom"
"Lesson: Newspapers need better local online products to offer advertisers (and how), and need to be much smarter and more aggressive about how they sell them..."
"Today, for example, we could see the launch of Metrobloggen, a new blog tool where the free daily Metro offers its hosted bloggers 3 öre (about half a US cent) per page view. If your blog becomes a hit you might actually earn a buck or two..."
'WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched “Local Explorer, ” which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for “mapped journalism.”'
"Originally developed by Belgian programmer Dries Buytaert, the CMS is a favourite of web hacker geeks around the world, but has been currying increasing favour inside newsroom production offices, too..."
"Rupert Murdoch has summoned his top news executives to California next week for a three-day meeting to plan asurvival strategy for hisglobal newspaper empire in the digital age."