Should you pay for a newspaper?
My local paper has been free for three weeks, about what it's worth. We believe the internet is a better source of the news.
View ArticleWhen is a blog an advertisement
When all they do it pitch their services We follow the computer virus topic on Google Reader. Last week we started getting “stories” that are just advertisements on a variety of cookie cutter sites....
View ArticleThere are no journalists only citizens says the Supreme Court of Canada
Big Media crows about this week’s Supreme Court ruling but it’s not all about them By David Eaves eaves.ca (from a Tweet by Michael Geist) I’ll confess some confusion around the slant taken by several...
View ArticleCBC erects pay-as-you embed pay wall
Canada’s national broadcaster wants you to pay if you use their stories in a blog Michael Geist, copyright lawyer and blogger, Twitted this today, “CBC adopts new licensing plan: wants $250 to embed 1...
View ArticleCitizen Journalist Wins 2009 George Polk Awards
Bloggers, Twitter, YouTube and Liveleak are winners of the George Polk Award for Videography marking an inflection point for modern news reporting The biggest story of video news story of 2009 was not...
View ArticleBloggers Now Eligible For Press Passes In NYC
Great for the Big Apple but will it float in Little Pond Online Media Daily In a nod to the growing influence of online journalists, New York City said Tuesday that bloggers and others who publish on...
View ArticleMedia taking cues from bloggers
TV networks and newspapers learn new tricks from bloggers but they won't give bloggers credit
View ArticleNew Hampshire Supreme Court Rules Website Has Reporter’s Privilege
New Hampshire rules bloggers can be journalists something the Supreme Court of Canada already acknowledged By Sam Bayward, Citizen Media Law Project This morning, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire...
View ArticleOn blogging and journalism
Peter Rukavina is not a journalist but other bloggers are Randy MacDonald weighs into the discussion on “bloggers and journalism” referring to the controversy about NJN Network’s expulsion from the PEI...
View ArticleActivist Journalist Silver Donald Cameron Gets Order of Canada
It could only in happen in Nova Scotia - in on Pate-Gate activists banned from Press Gallery of the PEI Legislature
View ArticleCan a journalist also be an activist?
The old double standard - big media broadcasters like CBC hire bloggers then say bloggers are not journalists
View ArticleBig Media Censorship in Canada
Activists not journalists? What a line. The news from big media in Canada has as much bias as news from bloggers.
View ArticleCBC Adopts Blogging Only News Room
CBC has a double standard. CBC bloggers are journalists but other bloggers are best described by an epithet.
View ArticleCourt Says Blogger is Journalist
Florida Court of Appeals rules that a Blogger is entitled to the same protection as traditional media.
View ArticleSupreme Court of Canada: There are no journalists, only citizens
Since 2009, bloggers and journalists have had the same legal standing in Canadian defamation law.
View ArticleWe Could Have Seen This Coming
The Guardian's Wayne Thibodeau said the world would end if journalists blogged
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