"Amateurs, happy to accept small checks for snapshots of children and sunsets, have increasing opportunities to make money on photos but are underpricing professional photographers and leaving them with limited career options. Professionals are also being hurt because magazines and newspapers are cutting pages or shutting altogether."

Keeping track of the discussion going on around your online presence.

"Journalism schools were made to serve the Church of Journalism and the vanity contained within it (“Oh, I’m a journalist actually.”). The foundations of that cathedral have been shaken to the core because there is less money to validate its existence and shield the inadequacies of some of the people in it. My advice to kids currently in journalism school is to, at the very least, find a niche and expertise that isn’t about content creation itself. If you do, you might be one of the lucky ones to serve the Reader Elite." via Doug Fisher.

"The multimedia debate needs a new question: How are we using technology to create a more relevant product? We’re not going to “save” media by out-featuring each other. We can and will re-cement media by using the technology to deliver the experience consumers want most: intelligent, meaningful news that’s accessible where they are in the moment." – via Doug Fisher

Alfred Hermida's five tips for successful blogging: "Have a focus; Offer a critical perspective; Create value for your audience; Engage with the community; Make it personal."

"Pageviews remain the metric by which we’re all graded at the end of the day because, right or wrong, that’s all advertisers currently care about in the online world. #

We all walk a line between pageview pumping and our own editorial guidelines. Some go too far one way, some go too far the other." #

Justin McLachlan has set up an e-mail list with legal reporting tips for journalists. You can sign up at this link. Pretty good stuff.