In Iran, Journalism Makes Use of Unverified News ""Check the source" may be the first rule of journalism. But in the coverage of the protests in Iran this month, some news organizations have adopted a different stance: publish first, ask questions later. If you still don’t know the answer, ask your readers." (tags: journalism twitter [...]
Journalism, attribution and Creative Commons "The Daily Mail posted a story on their website about my friend Andy Stanford-Clark, and used a crop from one of my photos to illustrate it. As it happens, I would have been perfectly happy for them to use it (and even to crop it) if they’d asked for permission. [...]
The Newsweekly’s Last Stand "Given that even these daily digests are faltering, how is it that a notionally similar weekly news digest—The Economist—is not only surviving, but thriving? Virtually alone among magazines, The Economist saw its advertising revenues increase last year by double digits—a remarkable 25 percent, according to the Publisher’s Information Bureau. Newsweek’s and [...]
Yahoo!'s Dangerous Newspaper Deal? "As newspapers around the country struggle to develop strategies for growing revenues online, more and more of them are turning to an unlikely ally for salvation: Yahoo!. Last week, five struggling newspapers including the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Orange County Register joined the Yahoo! Newspaper Consortium, an online advertising partnership [...]
John Dvorak's Second Opinion: As news source, Twitter has seven deadly flaws "As a provider of news, Twitter has serious flaws that are too obvious not to complain about. " (tags: journalism online+journalism twitter future iran)
