By: E&P Staff
In today's links, San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds drops his lawsuit against two reporters over implications he took steroids, a critic suggests the New York Times turn all its columnists into bloggers and take them out from behind the TimesSelect pay wall.***
Critic: Turn 'NY Times' Columnists Into Bloggers"I think the writers can be fairly paid without the TimesSelect wall," writes PBS blogger Mark Glaser. "Currently, the Times will only let you read these columnists if you are a print subscriber or pay $49.95 per year for TimesSelect, which also includes access to newspaper archives and other goodies."
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Global Report: News Orgs. Hiring Younger, Cheaper JournalistsPress Gazette (U.K.): A new report by the International Federation of Journalists highlights a worldwide trend of experienced senior staff being replaced by younger graduates who are often employed on a casual or freelance basis and on less pay. The report, entitled "The Changing Nature of Work: A Global Survey," polled 41 journalists' organizations in 38 countries that are affiliated to the IFJ, which includes the National Union of Journalists in the UK.
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Media Mogul Kenneth Thomson DiesThomson, a shy art collector who built Canada's largest fortune by transforming his father's trans-Atlantic newspaper business into one of the world's leading providers of electronic data and information, died on Monday. He was 82.
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Old Media Can't Make Headway on Web"Every day we read articles about how the major media companies are dealing with the Web," writes TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer. "Some are adopting podcasts, some are putting delayed programming on the Web. Still others are adding augmented programs or additional scenes to their Web entities. OK, I'll say it: It's all nonsense. That's right. It is all much ado about nothing. Because the economics of the Web simply aren't there."
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Barry Bonds Dropping Suit Against 'SF Chron'San Francisco Chronicle: Barry Bonds is dropping his lawsuit against The Chronicle and two reporters who wrote a bestseller based in part on the Giants slugger's secret grand jury testimony, his lawyers said Sunday. Bonds, who filed suit in March against Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams along with Gotham Books, Sports Illustrated and The Chronicle, contended that the writers should surrender all profits from the book "Game of Shadows'' because portions of the book were based on improperly used grand jury transcripts.
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E-Newspapers Just Around the Corner. Really.Reuters: The newspapers of the future -- cheap digital screens that can be rolled up and stuffed into a back pocket - have been just around the corner for the last three decades. But as early as this year, the future may finally arrive. Some of the world's top newspapers publishers are planning to introduce a form of electronic newspaper that will allow users to download entire editions from the Web on to reflective digital screens said to be easier on the eyes than light-emitting laptop or cellphone displays.
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MySpace Launches Job Listings"Fox Interactive Media was part of a recent $13.5 million investment in jobs metasearch site SimplyHired in April," writes Greg Sterling on Search Engine Journal. "At the time, there was an explicit discussion of the integration of job listings into Fox properties, including MySpace. Now, after several delays, MySpace Careers is launching.
The MySpace integration doesn?t contain all the features and functionality found on SimplyHired, in particular the navigation, salary research, personalization and LinkedIn integration. Compare a search for 'editor, San Francisco' on MySpace Careers and SimplyHired."
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'Vanity Fair' Writer Mnookin Fires Back at Ex-'NY Times' Editor Howell Raines"Raines refers to me dismissively as a junkie, implies that my critical coverage of him had stemmed from the fact that he hadn?t hired me, writes that he would have hired me out of pity had he only known about my past, and disparages my reporting," notes Seth Mnookin on his blog, referring to Raines' recently published memoir. "I was, at one point, a heroin addict; that?s no secret. And I had sent in some clips to the Times in the fall of 2001, after Inside.com and Brill?s Content shut down. But if Raines had ever even seen those clips, he would have known about my personal story: I included an essay I?d written about my treatment and recovery because, as I said in my cover letter, I wanted to give prospective employers 'the broadest sense of my abilities' and not have them caught off guard."
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When Accountability is Compromised"The practice of source confidentiality needs an overhaul," writes Edward Wasserman in the Miami Herald. "Confidentiality promises are powerful and complex things. Sometimes brave and desperate people take great risks to expose important wrongdoing, and the reporters who shield them accept legal exposure. Good for them."
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