Mediagazer: BBC News linking policy (Steve Herrmann/The Editors)

12:25 AM ET, March 21, 2010

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Ravi Somaiya / Gawker:

How Blogs Are Becoming More Like Newspapers — The LA Times today examines how the Seattle Post-Intelligencer segued from print to exclusively online journalism. But blogging — how and why we cover the stories we cover — is going the other way and coming to resemble... newspapers.

James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:

An e-model for journalism in Seattle — After the 146-year-old Post-Intelligencer folded last year, 20 of 160 employees were retained to produce an online product. — From Seattle — When a bright young reporter for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer named Monica Guzman mentioned a couple …

Discussion: The Daily Weekly

Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:

Anonymous Comments: Are They Good or Evil? — I enjoy a good debate about media-related topics pretty much any time, even when I'm supposed to be on vacation with the family in Florida. Today, in between playing shuffleboard and bocce and taking the kids to the swimming pool …

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Felix Salmon:

Did Charlie Gasparino get Teri Buhl fired? — It's well known that Charlie Gasparino likes getting into mini-feuds with reporters who write about him, myself included. It's part of what makes him Charlie, and he's welcome to call me a twerpy nutjob as much as he likes.

Paul Levy / CL&P Blog:

The Hot News Doctrine Rides Again — Does a firm that expresses an opinion “own” that opinion, and thus have the ability to prevent others from reporting on the fact that the firm has expressed the opinion? When a newspaper or other entity reports some facts, does it “own” …

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SlateV:

How I Ran an Ad on Fox News — Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100.

Discussion: AdPulp, Ben Smith's Blog and The Impolitic

Steve Herrmann / The Editors:

BBC News linking policy — How often do you click on the external links we add to stories on the BBC News site? — How useful are they, and how could they be better? — We are looking at the way we do links to other sites, and I'm interested to know what you think.

Discussion: Online Journalism Blog

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Stat Rant: Does Facebook Trump Google For News & Can't We Measure Twitter Correctly? — Earlier this week, Hitwise put out stats suggesting that Facebook is beating Google and Twitter when it comes to driving traffic to news sites. I dug a little deeper, and I beg to differ.

Discussion: Hitwise Intelligence

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

March Madness: CBSSports.com Says It Served 3.4 Million Live Hours On Day One — Initial stats are in for NCAA March Madness on Demand and it looks like CBSSports.com will be able to declare victory again (unlike fans of Georgetown or Vanderbilt). Unlike NBC Universal (NYSE: GE) …

Discussion: Multichannel

Chris Pendleton / Bing Maps Blog:

Bing Maps for Broadcast is now Free! — A couple months ago we changed the Bing Maps Terms of Use in a post called Bing Maps Terms of Use Changes; Benefit Educators, Not-for-Profits and Developers. Well, we've gone a done it again. This time all you TV anchors are going to look so much hotter …

Rick Edmonds / The Biz Blog:

Circulation Losses May Seem to Stop as Calculations Change in the Future — A cynic might say that the newspaper industry has found an ingenious way to stop the discouraging news every six months of continuing deep circulation losses — change how total circulation is calculated.