Tag Archive for tag: journalism
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Tag Archive for tag: journalism
Barry Parr just concluded his “Why can’t a newspaper be more like a blog?” series. Over the last week or so, Barry has taken his “deliberately provocative” headline and explored how online news publishers could learn much from blogs.
While he covers a number of different related topics, his main point is that news sites should [...]
A website I designed and programmed while at my last job (it went live over two years ago) won a First Place Award in the 2003 Arkansas Press Association Awards (award results not on their website yet).
That site got second place in 2001, third place in 2002, and, finally, first place in 2003. I’m sure [...]
John Gruber waxes eloquently about independent content in today’s Daring Fireball. He makes a lot of good points about the goals and means of independent vs. corporate content (and not just on the web). While his categories of “independent” and “corporate” imply a pigeon-holing that is pretty strict, his observations about content and audience can [...]
UPDATE: Jeff Balkin, an attorney who blogs clarifies the court’s decision mentioned here the other day. Bloggers aren’t protected from libel laws for things they write themselves, only for linking to libelous stories or — and this may be most important — libelous statements written by others but published in the blogger’s comments section.
Newspapers [...]
Mark Glaser’s latest column for OJR is about newspaper columnists who have “official” blogs and tensions between releasing news or opinion on the blog or holding it for the paper. There’s a lot of interesting discussion on Dan Weintraub’s California Insider blog as well as some commentary from Dan Gilmour.
