links for 2011-05-30

Twitter doesn’t replace any other form of media or journalism, any more than YouTube replaces television, or Facebook replaces the need for normal human interaction. Twitter is just a tool, like the telephone or the video camera — it doesn’t replace the need for traditional journalists. It may make their jobs slightly different, but we still need people to curate and make sense of that stream. If anything, in fact, we need *more* of them, whether we call them journalists or not, as the amount of information we are trying to consume continues to increase.

As managing director of Trinity Mirror Regionals, which acquired MEN Media last year, she has had a hands-on role steering newspapers through turbulent times caused by structural shifts within the sector and the uncertainty of a weak economy.

The event will focus on the core strengths of the regional press and how it is now reaching bigger audiences than ever across its print and online platforms.

Hey all, at Local Government Group we’re trying to redo the guidance for councillors on social media.

The library is one year into its plan to digitise 40m news pages from its vast 750m collection, housed in Colindale, north London. This autumn, the library will reinvent its cavernous vaults as a website, where amateur genealogists and eager historians will be able to browse 19th-century newsprint from their home computer.