Links on Twitter: Schiller’s departure, TPM’s ad sales, PR’s future

"As long as reporters can come up with such great descriptive prose the future of journalism is entirely bright" http://nie.mn/gEWtEq »

How to safeguard your computer at a coffee shop: practical brilliance from Gizmodo http://nie.mn/gx2yUi »

Does PR have a future? http://nie.mn/eSbbbT »

Wow. TPM’s direct ad sales rose 69% between 2009 and 2010 http://nie.mn/eyCjyR »

Al Jazeera is launching an English-language children’s channel http://nie.mn/feKrdP »

RT @CJR: Timely re-read: "NPR Amps Up. Can Vivian Schiller build a journalism juggernaut?" From March/April 2010 CJR http://bit.ly/eTf27E »

"I’m told by sources that she was forced out," Folkenflik says of Vivian Schiller resignation http://nie.mn/fV6c1G »

Fantastic, important listening: @emilybell on the future of online journalism (via @mathewi) http://nie.mn/fFd3D4 »

Joshua Benton

PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down

“While there is even more need for this intervention than when we began the project, the initiative needs more resources than the current team can provide.”

Richard Tofel

Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income

“I think risk aversion is the thing that’s killing our business right now.”

Jeff Jarvis

The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news

“If there are resources to be put to work, we must ask where those resources should come from, who should receive them, and on what basis they should be distributed.”