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Kate Nacy is the first EJO Fellow to participate the European Journalism Fellowship program at the Freie Universität Berlin. Kate Nacy works as a journalist, writer and editor. Her work has appeared in news publications as well as in literary and arts journals. She served as the European Journalism Observatory’s English Web Editor from 2008 – 2012.
November 26, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
New app for journalists launches. Qluso is a new online app that allows news editors to bid on exclusive stories from freelance journalists (in exchange for 10 percent of generated profit, of course). The app is designed to help news...
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November 23, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
A California company tackles online plagiarism politely. Attributor, a company based in San Mateo, California, devised the first Web-wide monitoring and enforcement platform, created to monitor licensed use and protect against unauthorized...
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November 11, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
MediaBugs releases first survey of U.S. media correction policies. MediaBugs – an online service providing the public with tools to reports errors in media coverage – takes a look at the websites of 40 major U.S. newsrooms, including...
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October 25, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Kate Nacy
Paris-based NGO Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) releases Press Freedom Index 2010. Last year was a particularly grim one for journalists, as the number of murdered reporters rose 26 percent, while violence against...
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October 23, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality, Public Relations •
by Kate Nacy
We’ve long hailed the Internet as the great liberator, the free-sharing facilitator. But with the business of burying information booming, how accurate can this be? In a recent NPR story, Peter O’Dowd discusses digital...
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October 18, 2010 •
Digital News, Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
With the publication of a new edition, the BBC’s editorial guidelines now include recommendations on the use of social media and user-generated content. Replacing the previous 2005 edition, the new edition covers BBC Online content,...
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October 4, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
Polis report discusses new media communication tools and the concept of networked journalism. Released this past summer, “The Value of Networked Journalism” sprung from four years of research at Polis, the journalism think-tank...
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October 1, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Kate Nacy
Most reasonable humans can agree that material published in tabloid magazines is likely to canker your brain into a noxious puddle of wasted potential. Sure it’s something to do on the subway, a way to keep up with Kevin Federline...
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September 15, 2010 •
Digital News •
by Kate Nacy
New report discusses the legality of news aggregators. Likened to barnacles suckling at the underbelly of Industrious Reporting, news aggregators are often faulted for the decline of traditional media, xeroxing (there’s a traditional...
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