by Sydney Smith on Mar 30, 2010
Should Newspapers Delete Published Police Records? Editors explain policies
Thanks to the Internet, a simple Google search of a person’s name can now quickly turn up that police record you...
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by Sydney Smith on Mar 29, 2010
Corp for Public Broadcasting Invests in Journalism Jobs
Good news for journalists? As newspapers across the country have been slashing jobs the past few years, journalists have struggled...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 25, 2010
Should anonymous comments be banned from news sites?
Publishing online has hit yet another speed bump, this one framed as a question: Should readers be required to disclose their...
by Siobhan Dixon on Mar 19, 2010
Accused Killer Casey Anthony Gets Hefty Payout From ABC News
Maybe crime does pay if you do business with ABC News. Shocking details from a Florida courtroom reveal that Casey...
by Siobhan Dixon on Mar 16, 2010
Sued for plagiarism? It can cost you money….
Everybody knows that plagiarism can get you fired from a job or expelled from a university, but less known is that plagiarism...
by Robert Buckman on Mar 15, 2010
For want of a tilde, the spelling is wrong!
What a character! Literally. I refer to the tilde, aka, “the little squiggly thing over the “n” in Spanish. In...
by Rhonda Roland Shearer on Mar 15, 2010
Jeffrey Goldberg: ‘Atlantic’s Web site has no fact-checking standards’
Columbia Journalism Review's recent study of magazine's Web sites asked editors if their Internet content was copy edited and fact...
by Molika Ashford on Mar 14, 2010
Are You Journalist Enough for a Press Pass?
The perennial “new media” question of who is and who isn’t a journalist also includes: Who gets a press pass? Yes,...
by Molika Ashford on Mar 11, 2010
Dodge City Reporter Claire O’Brien Fired After Reporters’ Privilege Fight
The embattled Kansas reporter Claire O’Brien--who refused to reveal a confidential source and story notes from her jailhouse interview to Ford County...