There has been quite a debate recently about the announcement by the Associated Press that they will protect their news by a code that will enable them to show who is using their content without paying for it. I am not sure everyone in the debate discussed the same thing, but in any case it [...]
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Posted in News Agencies on Jul 16th, 2008
“Anytime judgment is involved, unbiased opinion is not possible,” is the opening sentence of a blog entry on journalism published at Under the Same Sun here. This fed into an article at Politico.com about new and highly controversial ways the AP (Associated Press) now promotes, mostly in writing analysis but increasingly in writing stories.
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Posted in New Media, News Agencies, Newspapers on Jul 10th, 2008
Jeff Jarvis made interesting comments here regarding new division of “labour” in the internet age, in this case among newspapers and Google (or somebody - Google is a metaphor). His point is that everybody should be doing what they are best at, and he considers that:
Newspapers are in the wrong businesses. They should no longer [...]
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