James Mitchell

"Students at the UC Berkeley journalism school are doing great work, recently starting six hyperlocal sites focusing on Bay Area communities."

Demand for Wednesday newspapers heralding the Obama win was so high that many papers ran an extra run yesterday, and predictably, a thriving market in the collectibles has emerged on eBay.

"There is a future for print media. But the future is doubtful for large newspaper companies that are saddled with heavy costs and debt. If newspapers had focused on their business as "news" rather than "papers," they would most likely have invested heavily in digital ventures beginning in the mid-1990s, and established themselves as the primary source for locally relevant content."

"Anyone can be a reporter, a journalist has a craft. A reporter has a job, a journalist has a future, that is never clearer than during the great, slow burst of the century-old newspaper bubble."

"Sky News is hiring a 54-foot yacht that will be parked in the garden of the villa and used to interview floating voters on what might swing their vote to Obama or McCain."

"One of my least favorite parts of my job is performing what I like to call journalistic fellatio. It’s my own wonderfully crude term for those stories that I have to do to keep the people who provide me with information happy."

"Dennis has bought technology review website bit-tech, in a move that will boost Dennis’ online presence and net it an extra million unique visitors."

"Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths."

"But as print circulation declines, media owners are still reliant on the web as a source of growth. Many are diversifying out of advertising into revenue-sharing partnerships with e-commerce sites, such as travel or dating. But some are also experimenting with techniques and technologies, with increased targeting of advertising to readers widely seen as the best way to raise yields."

"Glam Media, a high-profile but controversial internet advertising and content network that focuses on women, is launching a venture for men whose name – Brash – says as much about its ambitions as it does about the debut’s timing."