The Future of Journalism: a joint Media Alliance & Walkley Foundation initiative

Mark Scott speech to the Melbourne Press Club sets out vision of new journalistic skill sets to ensure quality and newsbreaking across all platforms while bringing audience into newsgathering process:

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Get hip to social media or quit, says BBC (in other wirds, FIFO – fit in or …). The Guardian reports:

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What are the key skills for journalists in our changing lancscape? Know how to be a proper journalist, says the Online Journalism Review

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How one journo hit it big by blogging: Alan Mutter, the newsosaur, tells the story of Michelle Leder whose business blog has just sold to Wall Street:

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Sharing is caring. No really – a study of what sort of New York Times articles were emailed or sent to friends via social networking sites came up with pieces that are positive, helpful or awe-inspiring. Read the report:

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Senior Daily Beast journalist admits to plagiarism. Gerald Posner is suspended and apologises:

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World waits as Press + pioneers Brill online payment system: New York Times

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Avatar helps News Corp post December quarter profit: The Guardian

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It’s all very well praising hyperlocal journalism, but where are the jobs? Rob Williams

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Can an unbiased cable news service survive? Columbia Journalism Review

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UK Telegraph to stop chasing hits and concentrate on e-commerce: The Guardian

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newspapers still making strong contribution to News Corp’s bottom line: The Australian

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ISPs not responsible for users’ copyright infringement: Stilgherrian

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Australian film industry disappointed by the ruling on ISPs: Read AFACT’s press release here:

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The Journalist: Why technology is good for journalists, writes Vivien Sandt, who is putting together a report for our friends at the UK’s National Union of Journalists:

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And below, a report by Ian Wylie on the NUJ’s recent conference: New Ways to Make Journalism Pay:

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The Guardian: More on the Tablet – watch out for the Skiff reader, says Peter Kirwan

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The Guardian: The UK Telegraph group’s head of digital media, Greg Hadfield, quit this week in rather dramatic fashion, writes Roy Greenslade

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And here’s something from Hadfield:

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The debate: How are established news organisations vetting material from non-mainstream and start-ups? Washington Post, New York Times, Miami Herald

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Washington Post: Why you are seeing more copy editing mistakes in the post. Less subs with more to do, writes ombudsman Andrew Alexander. So that’s all right then!: 

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Newsleader: Justin King’s top tips on what you need to be a multi-media journalist (is there any other kind?):

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Guardian – Google to end censorship of its China site and will pull out of the country if necessary, writes Tania Branigan:

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Buzzmachine – Jeff Jarvis interviews John Paton, the recently hired boss of the Journal Register, about his vision for taking a news company digital:

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Alan Mutter – the Newsosaur gives us the first of a three-part analysis in demand for newspapers:

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Guardian - News International will block the web aggregator NewsNow from all of its sites, writes Mercedes Bunz:

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Orlando Sentinel: Tiger and the TMZ effect - Can the mainstream media compete, asks Hal Boedeker

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Wall Street Journal: New TV apps take their lead from the iPhone.

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and watch Fox News report here:

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Journalism.co.uk: AFP to launch a paid-for iPhone news app:

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Links for 05/01/10

Guardian: Huffington Post and Politico set to make a profit for 2009. And guess what – they are hiring journalists, writes Mercedes Bunz

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New York Times: Waiting for Apple – there have been a lot of fancy video demonstrations of how tablet newspapers and mags might look, but who is going to produce one that works, asks Nick Bilton

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And here: Apple’s Tabula Rasa, by the Recovering Journalist, Mark Potts

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New York Times: Brad Stone asks: why have tablets flopped?

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Guardian: BBC accountant’s report says corporation stimulates $15 billion for Britain. Take that!

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Irish Times: Roy Greenslade has a dream – he also has a nightmare:

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Advertising Age: Is Google becoming a media company? Looks like it, writes Sikon Dumenco:

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