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Journalism and the law
I like lawyers. They always smile, even when they’re not actually billing you. Big hats off to Andy Scott of the LSE‘s law department for bringing together a terrific cast of what we in journalism would – rather unimaginatively – call “top lawyers.” It was Chatham House rules, but the lawyers thought:
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links for 2008-07-16
Anonymity of bloggers is clashing with the law | IHT “The demand for secrecy raised the unnerving prospect that prosecutors could quietly investigate anyone who posts comments online, while the person making those comments is unaware of and unable to respond to the risk” (tags: blogging blogs bloggers anonymity law) An open letter to Craigslist…
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links for 2008-07-15
Mother sues over tale of ‘drunken party’ lifted from Bebo | The Independent The case is expected to have far-reaching consequences for third parties who use or publish information from social networking sites. Lawyers say it could place a duty on all second-hand users to establish the truth of everything they want to republish f…
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Crime reporting in S Africa: white paper, black paper
Fascinating post from Anton Harber on crime reporting in South Africa and the different agendas/perspectives of two newspapers. I hope he won’t mind if I repeat it all: Two newspapers in the same building do the same crime story. The result: two versions so different that there is almost nothing – not even their photographs…