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Jered Wilcox

Journalist Shield Law - 0 views

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    Kurt Wimmer, counsel for the Newspaper Association of America, talked about the the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013, being sponsored by bipartisan members of Congress, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. The bill would protect journalists from fines and jail time when they refuse to name confidential sources unless federal officials make their case in court
Andrew VanNess

Blogging Vs. Journalism - 0 views

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    What makes a blogger a blogger and a journalist a journalist. 
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    Another topic about what the difference between blogging and journalism is. While still an opinion, this discussion includes multiple viewpoints, including some professional journalists viewpoints.
Jenna Peterfeso

Goodbye to Newspapers? - 0 views

  • Its advertising and circulation are being drained away by the Internet, and its owners seem stricken by a failure of the entrepreneurial imagination needed to prosper in the electronic age.
  • Surveys showing that more and more young people get their news from television and computers
  • Rupert Murdoch
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  • but it was the disclosure in May that the Bancroft family, which controls The Wall Street Journal, might be ready to sell him their paper for five billion dollars that really struck at journalism’s soul.
  • . Still, it is on the ownership and management side that the gravest problems exis
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    A long article about the present state of newspapers. Includes information about selling the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch. Includes names of many journalists that may be important. 
Jered Wilcox

New bill raises concerns for citizen journalists - 0 views

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    Proposed legislation by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the so-called "Free Flow of Information Act," which cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 12, would restrict protections afforded to the media under the principle of freedom of the press to salaried journalists, according to ActivistPost.com.
Savanna Germain

Find schools with a major in Journalism - 1 views

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    This is just another picture of a journalist. I thought it could be useful.
Jenna Peterfeso

Citizen Journalism - 0 views

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    A quick summary of what a citizen journalist is and their role in today's news.
Savanna Germain

Is Journalism Dying? | The Mind of Marvin - 0 views

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    Talks about why journalism will not die. Claims as long as there are passionate journalist the journalism career can't die.
Samantha VanTassel

As Newspapers and Magazines Struggle, Companies in Other Industries Are Hiring Journali... - 0 views

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    How the media business is being transformed and disruptive. How will this new change effect business' revenue and their way of advertisement?
Jered Wilcox

A shield law is necessary to protect U.S. journalists - 0 views

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    SOME GOVERNMENT secrets should remain under wraps. Many others are kept out of view for poor reasons, including extreme caution, rote classification habits and a lack of recognition that withholding information from the public should be an extraordinary practice.
Jered Wilcox

Senate Revises Media Shield Law for the Better, But It's Still Imperfect - 0 views

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    The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved a new version of the proposed media shield law, forging a compromise on who should be protected from having to reveal their journalistic sources in court. The amended bill, which is now clear to go for a full vote in the Senate, avoids defining who is a "journalist."
Jenna Peterfeso

Technology Industry Extends a Hand to Struggling Print Media - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • the tycoons who have led the digital revolution are giving traditional print outlets a hand.
  • Call it a sense of obligation. Or responsibility. Or maybe there is even a twinge of guilt. Helping print journalism adapt to a changed era is becoming a cause du jour among the technology elite.
  • Google, which has been criticized for profiting from news content created by others, began financing journalism fellowships for eight people this year.
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  • are supporting the press because they value it,
  • The founder of Craigslist, the free listing service that helped ruin newspapers’ classified advertising, helped finance a book on ethics for journalists.
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  • Many critics of the newspaper industry say its predicament is its own fault for allowing upstarts like Craigslist to outflank it with better methods for advertising automobiles, rental apartments and other merchandise.
  • Since then, the search giant has been cozying up to journalists in a growing variety of ways, financing reports on the impact of the Internet on journalism, sponsoring journalism conferences and donating to press advocacy groups.
  • But Esther Wojcicki, a teacher of high school journalism for several decades in Palo Alto, Calif., and the mother-in-law of Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, said the motivations of the tech people supporting the press, many of whom she has spoken to, were more sincere.
Jenna Peterfeso

How the Internet Can Save Journalism | Bruce Ackerman - 0 views

  • Enter the Internet news voucher. Under our proposal, each news article on the web will end by asking readers whether it contributed to their political understanding. If so, they can click the yes-box, and send the message to a National Endowment for Journalism -- which would obtain an annual appropriation from the government. This money would be distributed to news organizations on the basis of a strict mathematical formula: the more clicks, the bigger the check from the Endowment.
  • a news organization must have a group of editors and fact-checkers committed to journalistic integrity.
  • Although the Internet may have destroyed the newspaper's old business model, we can use it to create a new decentralized system that may generate an even more vibrant marketplace of ideas for the twenty-first century.
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    Discusses the idea of a National Endowment for Journalism.
Andrew VanNess

Steal* This Article - 0 views

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    This academic journal talks about how changes are being implemented in the way that paywalls work. Micropayment services are changing the way that newspaper websites and blogger websites will work. In a sense, the more views that a page gets viewed, the blogger / artist / journalist can get a "tip" from the the viewers.
Samantha VanTassel

A Whole New Kind of Journalism? A Dissenting View - 0 views

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    the article explains; If there's anything left for journalists to do, it's to attempt to add value by analyzing and retelling what everyone has seen already.
Melinda Snell

The future of newspapers is uncertain; not so the future of journalism - 0 views

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    Arianna Huffington talks about how new technology will play a part in the papers future, but journalism will stay strong since journalists have new ways of gathering more information than in the past
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    As it encapsulates one era that has passed, it also has the potential to expand the era we are in. This combining of the best of traditional media with the potential of digital media represents an opportunity to move from the future of newspapers to the future of journalism - in whatever form it's delivered. After all, despite dire news about the state of the newspaper industry, we are in something of a golden age of journalism for news consumers.
Jered Wilcox

HARPER: Mixed feelings as Congress weighs media shield law - 0 views

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    It took the Senate Judiciary Committee 837 words to define a journalist. That's nearly 20 times as long as the First Amendment. The definition has become part of the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013, which passed the committee last week by a vote of 13-5.
Jered Wilcox

Media Coalition Endorses Journalist Shield Law - 0 views

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    Caroline Little, chief executive of the Newspaper Association of America, an organization serving as liaison between a coalition of media outlets and Congressional staffs crafting a federal media shield law, praised Thursday's passing in the the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 13-5.
Samantha VanTassel

Bill of Rights - 0 views

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    the rights that journalists have when publishing a column
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