Cody Brown: "News is important. It’s so important that leaving it to a group of people in an office downtown is and has always been irresponsible… we now have the technology to make this ideal more than a faith based abstraction… public can be counted on to share and disseminate its own news"

Here's a nice thing: against the backdrop of layoffs, buyouts, and cutbacks in the media sector, the Columbia Journalism Review is launching a fellowship program to aid downsized journalists -- predominantly baby boomers with years of experience and institutional memory -- by creating an "opportunity to continue doing what they do best: reporting."

By the brilliant Danny Sullivan… "As the rhetoric over how Google “rips-off” newspapers, magazines and other print publishers continues, a thought occurred to me this weekend. Perhaps Google should charge publications whose reporters tap into the service to research their stories?"