Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, journalism education, and communication.
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 [...]
The Phoenix New Times is facing grand jury subpoenas of all sorts of crazy crap after publishing a county sheriff’s home address.
Read the whole story (warning - your IP address might end up part of these legal proceedings) in the New Times for all the sordid details, but the rather absurd money quote is the [...]
I’ve got a guest column in today’s Spartan Daily that elaborates on the dangers of the Hosty v. Carter decision, what State Assemblyman Leland Yee wants to do about it, and why we’re actually pretty safe on public campuses in sunny California.
Here’s an excerpt from the column:
“College newspapers often boast that they are “independent,” but [...]
In today’s Spartan Daily, the student newspaper here at San Jose State University, former Daily executive editor John Myers reports that a California legislator has introduced a bill in the state assembly that would make it more difficult for university officials to censor campus media outlets.
Myers wrote that Leland Yee, the sponsor of the bill, [...]
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Comment trouble at the Arizona Daily Star
Danny Sanchez points out an explainer from the Executive Editor of the Arizona Daily Star on why comments were deleted from some stories:
“While we created the reader comments feature to give readers a place to talk, StarNet is still our house. And our editors and staff simply do not want guests [...]