links for 2008-01-26

• Anger as BBC sets up a rival to Facebook… for six-year-olds
  The BBC is setting up a Facebook-style social networking site for children as young as six.
  (tags: bbc facebook social+networking)
• Mystery death of journalist found dead in hotel
  Reporters Without Borders today voiced shock and dismay at the death of prominent journalist Hugo Arce, 56, who was found dead in a Guatemala City hotel room with a bullet through his heart.
  (tags: guatemala journalism murder)
• Circus journalism: Distracting the masses
  Because journalism has been so often a court of last resort in our society we have been beguiled into looking away from its most tawdry aspects, the tawdriest being that when it comes to money the public is bamboozled.
  (tags: journalism podcast)
• Nonprofit News
  As news organizations continue to cut back, investigative and enterprise journalism funded by foundations and the like is coming to the fore.
  (tags: journalism job+cuts)

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