The brief: Top Facebook tips for journalists, local TV debates and is a scoop still a scoop?

Here's tonight's round-up of interesting links and tid-bits from around the media/social media/journalism web, including:

The meaning of competition and whether first is best

A thought provoking piece from Patrick Smith about whether the scoop means anything anymore. I guess it comes down to what you value in journalism, and to me the enterprise scoop is the most important and we should always maintain and find a way to encourage genuinely interesting reporting. Tweeting a press release from the police a micro-second before someone else isn't as important, as Patrick points out, but slaving away for ages to show up the local MP in Middlesbrough for not being in touch with his local community. Why hyperlocals should not rule out print

Another interesting post from Damian Radcliffe on the UK's hyperlocal scene, this time focuses on the potential for hyperlocal to do print. He points out this is nothing new with the likes of the Echo Community Newspaper in the West Midlands has been running since 1979. Radcliffe makes a good point that print and online can co-exist quite happily as Pits n Pots saw when launching a print edition and seeing traffic to its website double.

Useful tips for journalists from the man at Facebook

Ten great starting points for journalists on using Facebook. It's interesting how Facebook is trying to convince more and more journalists to use Facebook like they would Twitter - and what we know is that there's a bigger audience on FB than on Twitter so if FB can make sure the tools are there then the chances for engagement, story finding and profile building of journalists is surely far higher?

Will local TV happen? If it does some clues here...

Good round-up post from Suzanne Kavanagh on the local TV debates which were happening up in Liverpool yesterday. I was following the hashtag on and off and there were some interesting speakers, explaining how if Jeremy Hunt survives and Local TV gets off the ground how it can actually work and be sustainable. That's the key thing, you can pump money into it but it needs to be able to create compelling programming and attract an audience for a long time after that money has run dry. I've done a few posts about local TV and where I feel it has gone a bit wrong (i.e. too much TV and not enough web) here.