Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
This month’s Carnival of Journalism question, posed by Doug Fisher, asks — more or less — what the law can do for journalism.
My answer? As little as possible.
Keep the frontier wild.
Photo by Ushlambad on Flickr.
One of the more striking parts of the Media Law class I took a surprisingly long time ago in grad school [...]
Let’s be clear, here: There are trolls everywhere. On the letters to the editor pages of our newspapers, on every daytime television talk show, not to mention most hours of cable news, at the table next to us at the coffee shop, the halls of Congress, and yes, in the blogosphere.
ABC News blog The Blotter is reporting that a “senior federal law enforcement official” told them the federal government is running the whole caller-ID data mining trip on journalists in an effort to track down their confidential sources.
Other sources have told us that phone calls and contacts by reporters for ABC News, along with the [...]
Reporters Without Borders has published the Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents.
It’s available for download in English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian.
The handbook is designed to encourage free speech online, regardless of what your local laws might have to say about it. There are tips on maintaining your privacy, blogging anonymously, and, perhaps most important, [...]