Google has been sued in the US, over claims that its Buzz social media service “violated” Gmail users’ privacy rights, Bloomberg’s BusinessWeek reports.
Buzz, introduced by Mountain View, California-based Google in February, automatically displayed to other users the customer’s contacts pulled from Google Gmail e-mail accounts. Google has said it modified the service after customers complained.
It looks like the two channels have quite different priorities. CNN goes for Tiger Woods and the iPad, while Al Jazeera puts the Wikileaks story top of its page.
MSNBC has “indefinitely” suspended its news anchor David Shuster for filming a new pilot for CNN, Huffington Post (and others) report.
Schuster had also got into trouble for a tweet sent to the conservative activist James O’Keefe in January; it was deemed “inappropriate” by the channel, adds HuffPo.
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“We endorse the sentiment that it is local journalism, rather than local newspapers, that needs saving,” says the report.
“The two are far from mutually exclusive, but newspapers need to be innovative in the way they train their journalists to work in a multiplatform world.”
p4 – “the broadcast pool”: “We take note of the Press Association’s concerns about the exclusivity of the ‘broadcast pool’ (video content of news events that are only allowed to be covered by a single camera, and is then shared between the BBC, ITN and Sky) and conclude that it is no longer appropriate to distinguish between broadcast and non-broadcast media when newspapers are increasingly using video on their websites.”
p9 – breakdown of local media operators and owners;
p11 – the role of local and regional newspapers in “the news pyramid”;
p16 – “We welcome the BBC’s proposals to increase the number of external links on its websites. We recommend that every local BBC website should link to the local newspaper websites for that area.”
p17 – Committee’s views on state subsidies for local and regional media.
p17-21 – recommendations for changes to cross-media ownership rules and regulations;
p24-5 – recommendations regarding local authority newspapers and council publications;
p28 – “For a long time local newspapers have made relatively little change to their business models. Now, along with the other traditional media platforms of television and radio, they face a vast array of digital and internet services, providing relatively easy market entry, all vying for advertising revenue and readerships. While some economic factors are cyclical, other changes of a structural nature are likely to be permanent. As is clear from the evidence we have heard from local newspapers themselves, local newspapers must innovate and re-evaluate the traditional model of local print media in order to survive in the new digital era.”
p33 – “the PSB obligations and other regulatory burdens on ITV need to be reduced, if not removed”;
The Associated Press (AP) is creating four regional investigative teams to support its staff across the US with “reporting and presentation resources”, in particular by using journalists with expertise in computer-assisted reporting (CAR), Flash interactives and access to public records.
Now, any reporter in a region who has an idea for a story that requires high-level data analysis will have a partner. If an editor has an idea for a project that lends itself to an interactive map or another data-driven multimedia project, they can work with the team. When a big, breaking story happens anywhere in the country, we’ll tap the region’s I-team [the name given to the newly created teams] to begin digging into public records and inspection reports while the story is still developing, not days after the fact.
New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute has compiled its list of the top 10 works of journalism of the decade 2000-9. The list, which unsurprisingly has a US bias, was whittled down from 80 nominees.
Our purpose was to call attention to and honour work of exceptional importance and quality – journalism that brilliantly met the challenges of this difficult decade.
Top of this inspiring poll is the New York Times’ ‘A Nation Challenged’, a special section published in 2001 looking into the local, national and international impact of the 11 September attacks.
Engadget takes a look at news and magazine applications developed for the iPad now that the device has gone on sale in the US. Le Monde, the New York Times, the Associated Press and Reuters’ apps are all reviewed.
