Lieut. Commander Steve Tatham, former head of the British Royal Navy's Media Operations in the Northern Arabian Gulf, was involved in the media planning for Iraq invasion. He's written a book -- Losing Arab Hearts and Minds: The Coalition, Al Jazeera and Muslim Public Opinion -- and spoke about it Monday with Democracy Now!

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Cameraman Doug Vogt, who was seriously injured earlier this year in Iraq, talked about his friends with CBS who died in Iraq on Monday.

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Citizen journalism evangelist Dan Gillmor has been writing fairly regulary for the Beeb's website. This entry is actually from a few weeks ago. It's one of his responses to readers columns. This is a glum little excerpt:

Reader: Organisations that produce newspapers have an enormous head start over any new entrants because they have the skills and networks needed to provide the content. The challenge for existing media organisations and new entrants alike is in developing revenue from the web, either from subscription, sponsorship or advertising. The revenue streams may be smaller, but the distribution costs for electronic news are orders of magnitude smaller than using dead trees. Keith Dowsett, London

Dan: I agree that traditional news organizations have a built-in advantage, but they have moved with remarkable slowness. What I don't know is whether the online revenues will reach the levels that support the journalism soon enough to make up for what will be lost on the print side, even with the potential savings. The early numbers aren't encouraging.

From the BBC:

Online journalists have the same rights as traditional reporters, a Californian court has ruled.

The decision was made in a case brought by Apple against a number of reporters who published information online about a future Apple product launch.

Apple filed the lawsuit to find out the source of the reporter's information.

But judges said that online journalists have the same right to protect the confidentiality of their sources as offline media.

"Today's decision is a victory for the rights of journalists, whether online or offline, and for the public at large," said Attorney Kurt Opsahl of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights organisation who have been defending the journalists.

From the BBC:

In her latest incarnation, she is a rich socialite who has a romantic history with another 52 character, ex-police detective Renee Montoya.

The new-look Batwoman is just one of a wave of ethnically and sexually diverse characters entering the DC Comics universe.

Others include Mexican teenager Blue Beetle - who replaces the character's previous white incarnation - and the Great Ten, a government-sponsored team of Chinese superheroes.

Regular characters Firestorm and The Atom, meanwhile, have been reinvented as black and Asian heroes respectively.

The characters are part of a wider effort to broaden the make-up of comic-book creations in line with society as a whole.

Batwoman, who first appeared in July 1956, has not been seen since September 1979 when she was killed by the League of Assassins and the Bronze Tiger.

A bit more can be found at Newsarama.com (H/T to Dwight Williams)

CTV colleague David Akin reminisces about about being in the little leagues of journalism before he got a desk with a view in Ottawa. :)