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Anonymity is not a guarantee for online commenters
Federal prosecutors who had made a broad request for user information of commenters on the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Web site backed down a bit, but an American Civil Liberties Union attorney representing four anonymous commenters on the newspaper Web site says it’s still an important, precedent-setting case. (Maggie) McLetchie said that this case is an…
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Running the numbers
We journalist types typically eschew focus groups and market research about news coverage, saying we know what a news story is and we don’t need no stinkin’ survey to figure it out. But we are learning to measure … and are finding it useful even if we put away our pica poles long ago. In…
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Multimedia boot camp for journos planned in Nashville
The Freedom Forum’s Diversity Institute is putting on an intensive week-long multimedia boot camp in mid-August. The program is designed for journalism educators, students or professionals with limited multimedia skills.