"Nick Carr sets it out very clearly: there’s an oversupply of news, and the market is correcting it ruthlessly. News is pretty much fungible (one of my favourite words - it means that if you have a pipe and stuff some of your supply in one end, what comes out at the other is indistinguishable...

Peter Kirwan: "[H]ow does the Mail’s attack dog coverage [of Facebook] square with its demographics? ... Facebook is now the Britain’s second most-visited website after Google UK. As Hitwise attests, social networking sites now account for over 10% of all Internet visits. This is one hell o...

Peter Kirwan on Ed Roussel's outsourcing idea: "The other question that needs to be asked here is this: what will a newspapers’ roster of 'premium' writers look like once they’re required to blog and Twitter with the rest of us. Getting the top knobs to take the web seriously...

Martin Belam joins the debate about whether the PCC needs reform with a little case study from the Daily Mail: "Quite how publishing pictures of a named 13 year old in her school uniform and inviting readers to discuss whether she looks like a slut or not squares with ... the PCC code of conduc...

"Without scarcity to sell ('You have to go through us to reach the local market') newspapers are stuck. Not only do they need to continue to bear the burden of local newsgathering, but they can’t underwrite those costs anymore as print dollars dry up and online prices are driven down ...

Richard Addis: "The Lebedev affair has had loads of coverage over the weekend. But I do not think anyone has looked at it hard enough from the Murdochian point of view."...

"Speaking generally, our study shows that newspapers are trying to improve their web programs and aggressively experimenting with a variety of new features. However, having actually reviewed all these newspaper websites it is hard not to be left with the impression that the sites are being impr...

A hilarious collection of those bullshit formulaic "formula for the best ..." "science" stories from certain UK national newspapers. (Highlighted by Ben Goldacre in his Bad Sceince column today)....

George Brock: "The term 'journalism' has been in use for less than 200 years, but over the past century the word has suffered from mission creep on a grand scale. When printed newspapers became a mass medium, reliable news was hard to come by. Modern communications and affluence ensure ...

Murray Dick: "Web 2.0 is changing the ways journalists can find contributors online. ... Here I’m going to do a general comparison of the best online people finders I’ve found – 123people, Pipl and yoname."...