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Of journalism and elephants
Seamus McCauley responds to Ryan Sholin and tells it like it is: Maybe the elephant in the room is a reluctance to even think of newspapers (or journalism or whatever you want to call it) in business terms. Because if we did, we wouldn’t start with the premise “since we’re definitely going to keep making…
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David Eady and privacy
Here are my excerpts from David Eady‘s judgment in Mosley vs News Group Newspapers Ltd: The law now affords protection to information in respect of which there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, even in circumstances where there is no pre-existing relationship giving rise of itself to an enforceable duty of confidence. That is because…
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The teller not the tale: link based journalism and rewrites
What value do newspapers add to information? A couple of days ago, I bookmarked this piece on product placement, from the New York Times. Basically, it’s about coffee cups appearing on the desk during a local morning news show in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Sun reported it first on Monday: Oooooooh, they’re calling out…
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links for 2008-07-24
How MSM bloggers fit into the blogosphere | Shane Richmond Perhaps MSM blogs, often seen as the cuckoo in the nest by those who are going it alone, have a role to play here. Perhaps our position gives us the opportunity … to help drive more “non-crazies” into the top tier of the blogosphere. (tags:…