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11 Oct

Who speaks for a website?

Online communities often operate as a news medium, rather than a traditionally staffed news publication. Other news reports about these sites, to be fully accurate, should reflect that fact by […]

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17 Sep

Ethical guidelines for editing audio

When editing interviews….The most important rule – NEVER change the meaning of what the interviewee said. It’s okay, even expected, that you will cut out ums, ers, long pauses, and […]

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12 Sep

Fixing quotes

In an August 12 column, Deborah Howell, ombudsman at the Washington Post, compares and contrasts two version of a Redskins football player’s quote published in the paper, one of which […]

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23 Aug

OJR piece explores issue of “rewriting history”

In this piece for OJR.org, Elizabeth Zwerling, an associate professor of journalism at the University of La Verne in Los Angeles County, attempts to answer the question: Should editors delete […]

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29 Jul

Even the Internet needs editors

Gary Kamiya, a writer-at-large for Salon, sings the largely unsung praises of newspaper editors. And the former editor argues the one medium that has traditionally resisted editors the most — the […]

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27 Jul

Journalists and Facebook

To answer the questions “What’s in (Facebook) for journalists? For journalism? And for news organizations, at large?” editors at Poynter.org established a Facebook group called “Journalists and Facebook.” They invited about 25 […]

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17 May

Outsourcing local news to India?

The editor of PasadenaNow.com, who in an earlier report was planning to outsource coverage of local city council meetings to journalists in India, has postponed his decision due to an […]

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26 Apr

Reader comments: the good, the bad and the ugly

An AP story examines how various newspapers monitor online reader comments and the ethics of allowing unfiltered content vs. assuming more editorial control.

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25 Apr

Definition: Journalism sourcing

Wikipedia has a page in its Journalism section about sourcing and all of its inherent issues.

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20 Apr

CBC criticizes NBC’s handling of Cho footage

Canadian Journalist blogs on a recent column by CBC News Editor-in-chief Tony Burman that criticizes NBC’s decision to air excerpts from the Virginia Tech killer’s “manifesto.” Deb Jones questions CBC’s […]

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