Monthly Archives: December 2017

Some thoughts on this from Nieman Journalism Lab contributor Mira Lowe are here.

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You should. It may affect your work some day. Here’s a story from the RTDNA about a prior restraint case involving an Iowa news organization.

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That’s the opinion of Tracie Powell, a Nieman Journalism Lab contributor. She lays out her reasons for this belief in this article.

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Not fake news – just mistakes! Compiled by Poynter.

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That’s the title of this article from the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. Who’s the designated trainer in your newsroom?

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That’s the phrase Monika Bauerlein, CEO of Mother Jones, uses to describe the attacks on media itself. She points out it used to be politicians would attack a particular story as being false, but now they attack all media as being “fake news”.

Read her thoughts on the matter here.

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We like them. We like them a lot better than the old 140-character limit.

Here’s the report, from Buzzfeed.

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From a master story-teller, writing for CJR. Read it here.

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As if we needed more evidence. Anyone who checks the comments on news stories posted to social media knows how much vitriol is on display.

Most of us who work in news understand that the First Amendment is there more to protect UNpopular speech than popular speech, which doesn’t need much protection. But there’s a difference between free speech and responsible speech. Advocating death by hanging isn’t responsible speech.

Dan Shelly, executive director of the RTDNA, made public some of the comments he got after the RTDNA sent a letter to merchants requesting that the “Rope. Tree. Journalist.” t-shirts be removed. See the comments and Dan’s narrative here.

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From Poynter. Fascinating! Read it here.

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