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Nikki Haley and Rand Paul Races: Where Have All the Reporters Gone?
The FTC & Bloggers: New Rules
Today, the Federal Trade Commission formally enacted new rules regarding the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (PDF), extending these requirements regarding disclosures of conflicts of interest (last revised in 1980) to the Internet. As the Commission summarizes:
Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his...
Bloggers and the Federal Shield Law
This news pisses off lots of bloggers and citizen media advocates:
For citizen journalists, the federal shield law front was looking good for a while. Although the House of Representatives version of the bill, passed in April, only offered a shield to professional bloggers, the Senate version didn't differentiate between the pros...
Mike Huckabee is right, and at the same time …
... so full of crap that his eyes are turning brown.
First, being right (although for the wrong reasons):
"I’m sad to report today a death of a good friend to all of us.....Journalism," Huckabee wrote in a post on his political action committee’s blog. "The once esteemed 4th estate of...
Fact-checking and journalism in the land of grown-ups
Connie Schultz, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist and Very Serious Person, reflects resentfully on the new media landscape:
Certainly, we are concerned about job stability. But veteran journalists are equally troubled by the online threat to standards we hold dear.
If anyone had told me five years ago that newspapers would...
Bob Novak: An Appreciation
Filed under: Media
Nan Robertson, ‘Girls in the Balcony’ Author, Dead at 83
Filed under: Woman Up, The Daily FLOTUS with Lynn Sweet
The legal battle for "workplace parity" at The New York Times waged by a group of courageous women at the paper helped pave the way for female journalists like myself to have equal opportunities in the business. Nan Robertson...
It’s the Comedy, Stupid
Filed under: Woman Up
Newspapers are hanging on for dear life. Comedians, meanwhile, are cleaning up.
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Medill Innocence Project Fights Subpoenas of Student Records
Filed under: The Cram, News Media
Professor David Protess and his students in the Medill School of Journalism use their journalistic skills to prove that convicted criminals are innocent, often winning their release from prison (at left, Anthony Porter is shown hugging Protess after his...‘Anonymous’ Captured Neda’s Death, and Now the Polk Award
Filed under: Woman Up
In Farsi her name means "voice."Almost instantaneously, screengrabs of 26-year-old student Neda Agha-Soltan, shot through the heart on June 20, 2009, by the Iranian regime's hired guns, became the face of a movement.
So powerful was the 40-second
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