Category: Journalism
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Explainer: Why do reporters need shield laws?
What is a shield law, exactly? When can a government official require a reporter to disclose sources or information? Who counts as a journalist under a shield law? What types of sources or information are protected? Is there a big difference between a subpoena and a search warrant? by Jonathon Peters CJR This is a…
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Reflection on accuracy in journalism & Judith Miller
Judith Miller was invited to speak at SPJ back in 2005. I was still getting used to being a journalist, and I couldn’t believe the way many of the traditional journalists just took what she said as gospel. She seemed like a shill for the Bush administration to me; a beltway sycophant. Despite persuading…
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Don’t Keep Readers Out, Make Them Want to Come in
According to a Guardian executive, thanks in part to the growth of the Facebook app, social sharing is now close to generating as much traffic to the paper’s website as search does — a fairly incredible statistic, considering that social produced just 2 percent of the traffic to the site as recently as six months ago. The Washington Post has seen…
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New “Standout” Tag Syntax to Reward Good Journalism in Google
Image via CrunchBase Google has announced a new piece of code that you can add to posts that you think should be featured. Every day, news organizations and journalists around the world dedicate significant time and resources toward some of the most critical types of coverage: exceptional original reporting, deep investigative work, scoops and exclusives,…
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Info Wrangling: Getting Organized, Being Productive
Image via Wikipedia ifttt.com is a new app that takes other apps, and let’s a non-programmer make useful mashups. It works simply enough. You choose a “trigger” which can be an kind of Internet unit – person, place, event, etc. Then you refine it, with hashtags and other filters,and then you choose an action that…
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But I’m sure they didn’t do that in the US…
Brown joins a long list of Labour politicians who are known to have been targeted by private investigators working for News International, including the former prime minister Tony Blair and his media adviser Alastair Campbell, the former deputy prime minister John Prescott and his political adviser Joan Hammell, Peter Mandelson as trade secretary, Jack Straw…
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AP to cite “pajama-wearing bloggers”
Image by biverson via Flickr I am sitting in my pajamas, working on getting my syllabii together, and being connected. This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad. We live in an age of information. There is so much information, we not only can share it, but we can make money from analyzing it,…
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OpenFile is Similar to ChicagoTalks, AustinTalks Model
OpenFile is a collaborative local news site. Stories are suggested by readers, selected by editors and investigated by professional journalists. We are an independent online newsgathering organization dedicated to local journalism. OpenFile’s journalists and editors research, write, and share stories that matter to Torontonians. We embrace a collaborative approach to news by encouraging members of…
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Confidentiality, Bloggers, and the TSA
The Tyranny Of Government And Our Duty Of Confidentiality As Bloggers. TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington discusses two bloggers who were recently served with subpoenas from the TSA, a government agency. One blogger refused to reveal his sources. The other, who was served as he was babysitting for his children, gave his computer over to the TSA.…
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John Cook on the Ex-Trib News Collective
The entire organization was seized by their collective panic at lowering revenues, plummeting readership (I quite literally never met a Tribune subscriber socially during my five years in Chicago), and frequently aborted frantic attempts to do something—hastily convened committees to launch new sections produced prototypes that languished for months and months in sad little piles…
Barbara K Iverson 