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If you’re first, you’re fired
What a message in the breaking news age. The person who posted the death of Tim Russert on Wikipedia has apparently been fired, least that’s what NBC sources say they’ve been told. The Wikipedia entry on Tim Russert seems to be first report of the death, well before NBC, other TV networks or the Associated…
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Tag a site hyperlocal and it’s doomed
The problem with creating a hyperlocal site is once you call it that, it’s doomed. Doomed to be irrelevant. Doomed to be ignored? Doomed to be abhorred by advertisers. That’s my spin on a topic posed by Andy Dickinson in this month’s Carnival of Journalism. His question for all the carnival writers was roughly around…
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Along came AP on an otherwise slow day in June
The most ironic angle to surface so far in the AP vs Drudge Retort copyright/fair use flap is the suggestion of an ethical lapse in the New York Times’ coverage of the tempest by failing to disclose it is among the “owners” of the news service. Which leads me to a question: Who forgot newspaper…