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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…
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links for 2008-07-14
Sarkozy looking to build national media champion | IHT “We want a BBC à la Française and we want a Murdoch à la Française.” (tags: france bbc rupert-murdoch news-corp sarkozy) Who listens to blogging heads? | Los Angeles Times [Political] blog readers are already habitual voters and need no extra encouragement from blogs to go…
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Carnival of Journalism
This being part of the Carnival of Journalism (and late), ringmaster Doug Fisher asks: what changes will need to be made in national and international legal systems to help the digital age, and especially journalism in the digital age, flourish? At the risk of making myself unpopular, in our own digital realm – journalism –…