This is some of what’s caught my attention in the past hours:

• Science journalism and the methane “time bomb” | Adding Noughts in Vain – “If you want to make a splash as a science journalist though you should get some hapless fool of a scientist to talk to you about their recent work prior to acceptance, prior even to writing a scientific paper.”
• RDF interim results | RTTNews – RDF Media Group Plc (RDF.L: News ) announced its interim financial results for the six months ended 31 July 2008, reporting a net loss of £1.32 million or 3.2 pence per share…
• Free News On The Internet A Failed Business Model? – “Most forecasts say that even in five years time the Internet will provide no more than 13% of total revenue for most newspapers, and that won’t be so much because of increasing web revenues as it will be from decreasing print revenues.”
• Channel Five News to get makeover for male audience | Mediaguardian.co.uk – “What I want to look at is can we make it look a bit different and can we tap into a different viewership.”
• Undercover Soldier: why didn’t the Beeb open up the debate online? | Journalism.co.uk – It’s a story that has seen a hive of online activity: the BBC puts a new reporter in the army for six months (he’s never worked in the media before); puts out a documentary, based on mainly anecdotal evidence; the army suspends five people (not clear how many were a result, if any, of the investigation); the mainstream media reports on the whole thing (Telegraph report linked here, as an example)…Yet nowhere on the BBC website is there anywhere to post a comment.
• New York Times bulks up on business, tech | Reuters.com – “[T]he journalism business might be in trouble, but business journalism is only getting hotter.”