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According to Scott Karp from Publishing 2.0, The New York Times is increasingly embracing link journalism - the idea that online journalism should heavily rely on one of the Web's main attributes, hyperlinking, to increase a story's editorial value.

Karp has been grappling with the idea of link journalism for some time (see his posts here).

The Times' Lede blog makes intensive use of 'link journalism'. In one of its posts, it links back to several external sources including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, USA Today, and an independent blogger.

But according to Karp, 'link journalism' extends far beyond the simple act of hyperlinking:

The Lede's posting "isn't just lazily linking to these stories -- he's read them, compared them, identified shortcomings, extracted key facts and issues, and connected the dots.

"In a traditional newspaper article, all of these facts and analysis would have been synthesized, but the reader wouldn't have had the opportunity to read for themselves the source material. This post does what journalism is supposed to do -- empower people with facts, understanding, and perspective about important issues."

The challenge for newspapers and their websites is to strike a balance, between remaining synthesizers of a wide mass of information (because consumers still expect journalists and editors to do so), while also becoming aggregators and relay points for news consumers who may want to access more in-depth sources on particular topics.

Source: Publishing 2.0

According to the Biving Report's Todd Zeigler, newspaper websites are increasingly, and efficiently, using interactive features to complement their storytelling.

Zeigler examines an interactive piece in Flash by The New York Times that shows box office receipts by month and movie for the last twenty years (click here to see it).

The Flash project also promotes other content produced by the newspaper, by linking back to reviews about movies, summaries and more.

Following Super Tuesday in the US, the NYT had announced that its interactive graphic about the elections had drawn the most page views on the site.

Yet another proof that online and multimedia content can improve the quality of journalistic coverage.

Source: Bivings Report

The Jutland Post has created a hybrid print and online edition of the paper to prepare for what it believes to be the future of digital newspapers.

According to Reuters, Yahoo’s partnership with newspapers may help publishers increase advertising, but it will also cost newspapers in terms of independence and flexibility.

A few weeks ago, USA Today announced the launch of widgets. The Washington Post launched its first widgets only two months ago. Both newspapers, which tend to be at the edge of multimedia innovation, plan on rolling out more widgets in the weeks to come. For those who haven’t caught on to the craze, washingtonpost.com’s Executive Editor, Jim Brady, and USA Today’s Executive Producer, Joel Sucherman, describe their use and advantages for newspapers.

In the era of social networking and Web 2.0, more and more newspaper websites are trying to build their own communities and personalization tools. The Press Gazette looked at The Telegraph’s and The Sun’s customization features, less than a year after their launch.

Michael Wolff, now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair among other things, will soon seek to revolutionize the very substance of news in the digital age, by launching Newser.com. Here he asks, is there still any need for news as we know it?

In an excellent article, Editor & Publisher’s (E&P) Joe Strupp gathers 12 important lessons learned from online flops and failures, such as… 

If you were told Last.fm was the website that discovered a number of music hits before they were ever scouted by record companies or music magazines, you would think this had little to do with newspapers – or does it?

When he started in 1994, David Dunkley Gyimah was one of the first video journalists in the UK. An academic lecturer and avid videojournalist who has advised newsrooms internationally, he explains how ‘any old’ newspaper can put up a regular video feed within weeks. Even better: newspapers have the assets to potentially produce better videojournalism (VJ) than their TV counterparts, both in terms of internal organization and marketwise.

According to Microsoft’s Web portal, MSN, The Live Earth concerts broke records in traffic, with more than 9 million Internet streams. Live Earth is a success story, both for organizers, the public, and news outlets linking to the event.

Ten years ago, the Associated Press (AP) was a “collection of different companies.” The online and print teams were independent units, its video team was largely set apart in London, and its international branches all had different logos and cultures. Since then, AP has moved to become a fully digital multimedia platform, following the “one name, one logo, one story” precept. The Editors Weblog interviewed Tom Kent, AP’s deputy managing editor, who insisted on the importance of cultural change and communication for smooth newsroom integration. More than that though, Kent details the strategies put into place, explains the changes in the editorial process, and gives a preview of the future of the integrated newsroom.

At the beginning of March, USA Today, US’ largest newspaper, launched its redesigned website with much emphasis on reader interactivity, user-generated content, and providing social networking tools such as reader and reporter profiles. Executive editor Kinsey Wilson, who has led USAToday.com’s development, explains how the online edition is embracing social trends while sticking to the paper’s journalistic heritage.

Mark Glaser of MediaShift says that serious, even investigative, journalism doesn’t have to die as news moves online; instead, he says, newspapers should look at what is rising - online readership and advertising revenue – and consider how to make their websites work in the new economy.

The rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism.

Citizen journalism media and local news websites offering user-generated content influence their communities and are here to stay, according to a report released by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. Traditional Media companies are coming up against these citizen journalism sites so it’s imperative to understand how to set them up, the secrets to success and how they can work hand in hand with newspapers.

UK newspapers are teaching their reporters how to write articles. How so? By writing in ways that show up at the top of search results from Google and other search engines. This is a look at how the online news portal oligarchy is concretely changing journalism.

Clashes are rife between newspapers and online search engines. Where search engines are often at the heart of the internet for many websurfers, newspapers desire to accomplish the same. But how? Start-up news search engine Inform.com purports to answer this question.

The New York Times has added a new service making it easier for users to link and post stories on social news and networking sites Digg, Facebook and Newsvine. Linking buttons were added this morning but will not be available on Time Select articles, newspaper's premium content offering, staff blogs or wire stories.

Friday, Google reached a settlement with Belgian journalists and photographers taking out two of the five groups involved in the lawsuit. The lawsuit, brought on buy Belgian media companies trying to prevent Google from linking to their sites, will continue today with the remaining plaintiffs. 

Copyright suits against Google roll on in some nations while in others newspapers are striking content sharing deals with search engine companies. The divide between these two approaches is echoed by a divide in opinion in how newspapers should adapt to the Internet. CityTools founder Robert Cauthorn believes instead of resisting changing business practices newspapers need to jump on the bandwagon and learn how to make the Internet work for them.