Only my dear departed dad would truly get the reference, so I'll make it easy for you. Guardian columnist Roy Greenslade muses about why all the kids studying journalism at tony City University in London are middle class.

The Poynter Institute's David Brewer gave the following pluses and minuses for breaking down an online news story into tweets.

John Temple, former editor and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News, analyzes a lauded local newspaper website in Tucson, Ariz. to determine how user-friendly it is. The short answer? Not very.

A couple columns that passed my way via Twitter say the real gem in the crown of former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite's career was his clear-eyed analysis of the war in Vietnam -- one formed by on-the-ground reporting.

One of the great broadcast journalists has died. Walter Cronkite, anchor of the CBS Evening News for 19 years, was 92. Never knew him, never really watched him (being a Canadian and all), but I'm still saddened by his passing. He struck me as being a dignified gentleman and a man of integrity.

I'll curate some stuff below, but first, a snap of the nytimes.com home page right now:

From the July 14 Globe and Mail:

The Globe and Mail's award-winning series Talking to the Taliban has been nominated for another prize, this time for an Emmy Award.

The nominees for the 30th Annual News and Documentary Emmys were announced Tuesday in New York. The Globe project was recognized in the New Approaches to News and Documentary category, along with work by Reuters, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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Rule One: Study what I do here, and then do the opposite (just kidding -- sort of).

More seriously, Reuters' Felix Salmon offers a raft of tips, but I'll excerpt his 'what-not-to-do' section: (seen first on Twitter)

The BBC's Peter Horrocks on how the world of journalism is changing.

His thoughts are contained in a chapter of a book by the BBC College of Journalism entitled The Future of Journalism (available online for free):

Maclean's Anne Kingston tried to play Globeandmail-ologist and discern the real reasons for the termination of Globe and Mail editor Edward Greenspon, dispatched by publisher Philip Crawley.

For background, here's my original post from the time of the firing on May 25.

Saw this one on Twitter; a clip from the 1999 film Three Kings:

And yet another reworking of the Hitler-freaking-out-in-the-bunker scene from Downfall:

While it isn't Jacko-related, I always smirk at this Downfall adaptation.

The Toronto Star's David Olive says the biggest problem facing newspapers (and he includes supper-hour newscasts in the mix) is that they are boring.

His solution? Apparently, book-length articles on major social problems of the day!