30 Minute long BBC Radio 4 show looking at how … "Many of the world's best-known business newspapers and magazines are being painfully squeezed by the recession and the rise of rival media. In London and New York, Peter Day finds out why it matters... and how they are going about fighting for survival." Via Mr Murphy.

Following on from my previous Pinboard post, the Nieman Journalism Lab's Jonathan Stray has had the opportunity to find out more about the BBC's User Generarted Content Hub from one of its contributors Silvia Costeloe.

MA Online Journalism (Birmingham City University) student Caroline Beavon has posted a series of videos from her workshop with Matthew Eltringham, who heads up the BBC's User Generated Content Hub.

With a 25% budget reduction coming its way the BBC website has announced that it will actively seek to add more external links to its news stories. A BBC strategy review document states the goal of: "Turning the site into a window on the web by providing at least one external link on every page and doubling monthly ‘click-throughs’ to external sites." Interesting that the BBC are going down this route while many privately owned and for-profit news organisations are talking about installing a pay-wall around their content. Nieman Journalism Lab article.

Programmers over at the BBC scratch an itch by drawing up a process that willl allow for a little bit of A/B Testing.