Morning Links: November 20, 2008

By Joshua Benton @jbenton Nov. 20, 2008, 10:36 a.m.

— Upmarket-aggregator smackdown: Tina Brown points out she pays her writers — a not very subtle point on rival/buddy Arianna Huffington’s HuffPo, which doesn’t.

— LA Times online guru Eric Ulken goes solo to figure out where journalism. One to watch.

— Paul Bradshaw builds a timeline of the biggest moments of blogging journalism history.

POSTED Nov. 20, 2008, 10:36 a.m.

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Gene Allen

How a titan of 20th-century journalism transformed the AP — and the news

“If one man fails to file a story of a millionairess marrying a poor factory hand because that man understands such a story is not properly A.P. stuff, such an error of news judgment ought to be generally made known to other employees.”

Sophie Culpepper

The New York Times launches a free, geo-targeted extreme weather newsletter

Readers can opt in to receive morning emails explaining the level and type of extreme weather risk in up to four different places. The newsletter is free for everyone, not just subscribers.

Laura Hazard Owen

Gannett journalists across the U.S. will strike on June 5

Gannett has around 200 newsrooms, and editorial employees at around two dozen of those will go on strike.