Having had occa­sion to put my life, rather than just my lunch, on the line for journ­al­ism, I was inter­ested in this graph from Win­dows on the Media reflect­ing on the rel­at­ive safety of journ­al­ism as a profession.

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• How much did it cost the Guard­ian to reclaim the web­site top spot? | CounterValue
  The Guard­ian had a 3 million-visit uplift com­pared to May so, at between 1p and 2p per click by buy­ing search terms from Google, you have to won­der whether the com­pany spent some­where north of £30,000 to regain its position.
  (tags: guard­ian google rank­ings tele­graph)
• Res­id­ents in Spain fined for put­ting pros­ti­tute cli­ents on You­Tube | Times Online
  Exas­per­ated Mad­rid res­id­ents who filmed pros­ti­tutes nego­ti­at­ing with their cli­ents out­side their homes and broad­cast them on You­Tube have been fined for infringing the Span­ish data pro­tec­tion Act.
  (tags: pri­vacy data pro­tec­tion you­tube)
• Eco­nom­ics ‘dying out’ in schools | BBC NEWS
  There are three times as many pupils tak­ing psy­cho­logy A-level as eco­nom­ics and almost twice as many tak­ing A-level media stud­ies. Sport and phys­ical exer­cise and the express­ive arts are now big­ger sub­jects at A-level than economics.
  (tags: eco­nom­ics media-studies schools)
• Thom­son Reu­ters New Chan­nel Won’t “Chal­lenge” CNBC | Sil­icon Val­ley Insider
  [W]e’re talk­ing about a micro-business, no threat to the $330 mil­lion in estim­ated profits CNBC took in last year. The world just isn’t clam­or­ing for another busi­ness news chan­nel, and cable oper­at­ors know it.
  (tags: thomon-reuters business-channel cnbc)
• Craigslist CEO: Our Real Estate List­ings Are Boom­ing | Sil­icon Val­ley Insider
  CEO Jim Buck­mas­ter shared some June num­bers that will make a news­pa­per pub­lisher weep: hous­ing ads are up 85% y/y, with rental ads up 120% and real estate up 70%.
  (tags: craigslist clas­si­fieds)
• Attack on journ­al­ists puts China under fire | FT.com
  Video from Hong Kong tele­vi­sion sta­tions showed Beijing police officers throw­ing one journ­al­ist to the ground and thrust­ing him by the neck…officers pulled cam­era­men from lad­ders as they sought to record chaotic scenes sur­round­ing Olympic ticket sales.
  (tags: china olympics journ­al­ists)
• Fox Biz Rat­ings: On Par With Fox News Dur­ing Its Early Months | TVNewser
  The head­line spins. The story? “Fox Busi­ness is aver­aging about 8,000 in busi­ness day and 20,000 in prime time…FBN is still far behind mar­ket leader CNBC. The NBCU chan­nel aver­ages 284,000 view­ers dur­ing the day and 191,000 in prime time.”
  (tags: fox-business-news spin)