Morning Links: February 10, 2009

Explore Harvard's Nieman network Nieman Fellowships Nieman Lab Nieman Reports Nieman Watchdog Nieman Storyboard

In the (future of) news this week: Facebook, The New York Times, GigaOM, Hasselhoff? nie.mn/yrRbkW

Morning Links: February 10, 2009

— Mario Garcia applauds upcoming changes at Newsweek and says hurrah for more opinion: “Objective journalism, in this case, is more about the accuracy and fairness of the piece, and NOT necessarily in keeping viewpoints out of the mix.”

— Clay Shirky brings the smackdown on micropayments.

— Simon Owens writes about The Printed Blog, which I haven’t mentioned here before because it just seems like a spectacularly bad idea. But best of luck to them.

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How NPR drove traffic to a local station by geotargeting stories on Facebook

When NPR shared links to KPLU stories on its Facebook page — only visible to people in the Seattle area — the station’s website got record traffic.

http://www.theprintedblog.com Joshua Karp

Joshua… just out of curiosity… why do you think that the Printed Blog is a bad idea? It’s self-selected (based on where you pick it up), hyperlocal (community based bloggers in addition to national ones), it’s anti- the “one-size-fits-all” model of traditional newspapers so advertisers only pay a fraction of current rates and can target specific buyers; we pay the bloggers a portion of the revenue from ads… what don’t you like about the model? Thanks… Josh (founder and publisher; The Printed Blog)