links for 2010-01-27

• With Apple Tablet, Print Media Hope for a Payday - NYTimes.com
  Can Steve Jobs save print? “Steve believes in old media companies and wants them to do well,” said a person who has seen the device and is familiar with Apple’s marketing plan for it, but who did not want to be named because talking about it might alienate him from the company. “He believes democracy is hinged on a free press and that depends on there being a professional press.”
  (tags: stevejobs apple tablet print newspapers USA journalism news business pay paywalls future futureofnews internet digital)
• Op-Ed Columnist - Is China the Next Enron? - NYTimes.com
  Tom Friedman on the CHinese economy
  (tags: china economy NYT friedman)
• CNN Backstory: killed over bag of rice
  CNN discussion of video report which showed a man dying in the street, apparently without assistance from the News crew. Explores why and the ethics.
  (tags: cnn haiti journalism values ethics safety INSI)
• An Elegy for Journalism? | Foreign Affairs
  The rise of American foreign reporting was marked by outsized personalities and an expansive sense of mission. Today, the craft is in steady decline. But what will be lost if journalism disappears?
  (tags: RIJS foreignaffairs foreigncorrespondents news journalism future futureofnews business globalaffairs newsgathering)
• The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist? | Alan Rusbridger |
  "There is an irreversible trend in society today which rather wonderfully continues what we as an industry started – here, in newspapers, in the UK. It's not a "digital trend" – that's just shorthand. It's a trend about how people are expressing themselves, about how societies will choose to organise themselves, about a new democracy of ideas and information, about changing notions of authority, about the releasing of individual creativity, about an ability to hear previously unheard voices; about respecting, including and harnessing the views of others. About resisting the people who want to close down free speech."
  (tags: rusbridger cudlipp news journalism future futureofnews business digital internet society poltics murdoch pay paywalls)
• Moscow’s New Rules : CJR
  Independent Journalism in modern Russia
  (tags: CJR Russia freespeech index journalism)