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Matt Mayer

Digital publishing gets transparent at The Washington Post - The Washington Post - 1 views

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shared by Matt Mayer on 02 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Matt Mayer on 02 Sep 11
     
    The Post took a very big step this week, perhaps a leap. It has posted publicly for all to see its new 5,000-word guidelines for digital publishing - the dos and don'ts for journalists working in this new age of online and social-media publishing.
arnie Grossblatt

The New Presumption of Transparency - 0 views

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publishing libel censorship transparency

shared by arnie Grossblatt on 09 Jun 09 - Cached
  • In the U.S., public figures have to prove that statements about them are false and made with malice -- but in Britain a statement that harms one's reputation is enough to justify a libel action. Defendants must prove that statements are true or "fair comment." This has a chilling effect on the reporting of damaging facts.
  • "If information cannot be freely exchanged, if journalists must fear being sued over information reported in good faith on matters crucial to our defense, matters such as the financial networks supporting jihadist terror, then we cannot make sound security policy," former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said at a recent conference on "libel lawfare." This is a useful term to describe lawsuits to suppress facts about radical Islam and terrorism.
  • The Web means that publishing anywhere means publishing everywhere, thus subjecting authors and publishers to litigation in pro-plaintiff jurisdictions
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  • Among the proposals under consideration is to broaden the law to give American publishers the right in the U.S. to sue plaintiffs who bring what U.S. law would consider abusive lawsuits.
  • Digital technology makes sharing information possible and, increasingly, makes it mandatory.
  • arnie Grossblatt on 09 Jun 09
     
    "The Web means that publishing anywhere means publishing everywhere, thus subjecting authors and publishers to litigation in pro-plaintiff jurisdictions"
Ryan Holman

Faster Forward - Yelp dumps 'Favorite Review' feature, shows 'Filtered' write-ups - 0 views

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yelp social media transparency

shared by Ryan Holman on 06 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Ryan Holman on 06 Apr 10
     
    Blog entry about Yelp's answer to criticism that its favorably reviewed places, while ostensibly crowdsourced, were actually paid for. Will this help Yelp? Time will tell....
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