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“In reality, what is happening on the web is the transfer of the authors’ labour to large corporations for nothing. Anti-copyright lobbyists have become either unwitting allies, or shills, for big business.”
UK photojournalist Sion Touhig writes in Register: How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer .
He says basically because of all the free [...]
Want to know the fate of American newspapers? Here it is: McClatchy Co. bought the Minneapolis Star Tribune for $1.2 billion eight years ago and today announced it was selling it for $530 million. Little did I know, when I worked for the Star Tribune as its Sunday Magazine editor from 1984-1990, it was probably [...]
Read this Phil Lewis, Bonita Springs (Florida) Daily News column to get insight into the questions that the Internet is forcing on thoughtful editors. Of one day’s top ten most read stories on the Internet, only one of them, a story about a locally found blue frog, got on the front page of the newspaper.
Here [...]
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This comes under the heading, if only I had the time. Jeff Jarvis explains it best: The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof makes an amazing offer to his readers: ‘Remix me’. Read Jarvis to see the potential and all the problem with the Times Select firewall. Any how, here is what Kristof writes:
Stories can be [...]
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.