Here is what I’ve been scanning today whilst getting my head around validation paperwork

• The FT newsroom in 2009 – The FT release a document outlining what they are going to do next in their newsroom I predict a lot of newspaper execs getting their assistants to download this. 🙂
• FT Newsroom 2009 changes – More meat on the bones of the FT’s plans
• Photo technique: framing | Reuters.com – Thanks to Rob Galbraith for this pointer to a great resource for those of us still doing that hand over the lens stuff.
• CMS vendor map – CMS watch get all underground with a neat map of CMS vendors
• Serious, Long-Form Multimedia Journalism that WORKS « The Changing Newsroom – Carrie Brown touches on some very interesting audience engagment metrics as she reports back on Brian Storm’s turn at the College Media Advisers conference last week in New York City
• Trinity chief predicts newspaper closures – “A senior regional press executive has predicted a “sharp contraction” in the number of newspapers across the UK as a result of the economic downturn.” Maybe it’s me but is predict a funny word to use given the source?
• Emily Bell: Digital media cannot be contained by the analogue rulebook – Emily ponders the semantics and legalethics of this new thingy, whotsit that is the the web like “The challenge for the courts, the regulators, the distributors and the publishers of all manner of content is not to try to bind the digital inside the analogue rulebook, but to look beyond it for something that is quintessentially digital and fits this freer world.”
• Digital Steenbeck – Not the virtual grapes of wrath – that’s Steinbeck. This is editing furniture geek heaven.
• Essential multimedia tutorials and resources for do-it-yourself training – More great stuff from Mark S. Luckie
• Introducing the 3rd “Programmer-Journalist” | PBS – Nick Allen is the next Knight News Challenge sponsored *“programmer-journalist” at Medill School. What could a “programmer-journalist” do when he graduates – “Keeping a news organization ahead of the competition technically will be a constant battle. The news innovator’s role will be to invent, scout, and borrow innovative tools and techniques.” *sounds good to me.
• Social Media Marketing Budgets on the Rise – Mashable – According to the Aberdeen group “63 percent of companies plan to increase their social media marketing budgets in 2009, despite the current weakness in the economy.”
• Why young reporters need to get past their institutional mindsets; or, how reporters are like priests » Nieman Journalism Lab – The future of Journalism and Vatican II all in the same post. Joshua Benton explores the conservative mindset of some young journalists
• YouTube Adds Detailed Engagement Statistics –* “YouTube is adding more features to its Insights platform that helps video publishers get a more detailed look at how their uploads are performing on the site.”*
• The Declining Value of Content? – “Anyone trying to surface their video content today has to solve a very difficult problem with distribution, and should have a strategy, budget, and partnerships to do so.”
• Videos for journalists, #SXSW edition – Kevin Sablan offers “a few videos, shot at the 2009 South by Southwest festival, that contain advice that journalists might find helpful.”
• Part One: a theory of storytelling – “*What makes a story memorable? Is it the plot; the setting; the characters; use of imagery and figurative language? Although these are standards in written stories, there are additional elements in visual storytelling that must be taken into account. ” *Cyndy Green looks at visual storytelling in two parts
• SEO strategies for publishers – “How can publishers maintain high visibility on search engines without losing their brand distinction? Decide where to draw a line in the sand” So says Drew Broomhall, Times Online’s Search Editor. He’s an ex-student of mine. Very proud.