January 9, 2011 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Natascha Fioretti
Lessons to learn from 2010. In the end, Julian Assange was not named Man of the Year by TIME magazine. Yet there’s no doubt 2010 will be remembered for the Wikileaks controversy and the resulting upheaval in the media. Particularly...
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January 2, 2011 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Pew research shows growing number of seniors dive into social networking. She bakes a mean gingerbread and started a fibromyalgia support group on Facebook: She is Granny 2.0. Seniors are typically paper-readers and six o’clock...
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December 22, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Media prophecies, 2011. As the familiar lists of wrap-ups and predictions spring from every conceivable angle, the future of the news media is, once again, condensed in 10 convenient points. Deeming 2010 the year of “mobile for...
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December 21, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
EU and US join forces, launch website, battle piracy. The new site – the Transatlantic IPR Portal – was devised to help small software and hardware developers protect their intellectual property from counterfeiters. According...
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December 16, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Since the publication of Wikileaks’ latest wave of documents, the world seems to be spinning upside down. Not only has the U.S. diplomacy been snubbed, but the Wikileaks servers along with those of mega companies like Mastercard, Visa,...
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December 9, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Study compares news content on the Web to radio, television and newspapers. Published in Journalism and Mass Media Quarterly, Scott Maier’s 18-month study builds on the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s News Coverage...
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December 7, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Anyone who’s done a bit of freelancing is aware that news editors are surprisingly un-Googleable. Email addresses along with other relevant contact info appear sparsely, if at all. In Googling ourselves we uncover the old standbys...
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December 7, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
An alliance of news organizations unite for accuracy. The Report an Error Alliance, formed by Scott Rosenberg of MediaBugs and Craig Silverman of Regret the Error, is designed to improve accuracy in news coverage by giving readers the...
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November 30, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Wiebke Schoon, a researcher from the University of Hamburg, spoke euphorically of the “cosmopolitan turn” taken by media and journalism research. Indeed, only a few years ago it would have been unthinkable: Nearly 1000 researchers...
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