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AP Tells Google and Other News Aggregators to Pay Up or Face Lawsuits

The Associated Press has announced that it is willing to fight over the question of who owns the content its member newspapers produce, even if it means no longer playing nice with the giants of the Web like Google.

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Senator Cardin Introduces Bill to Allow Newspapers to Operate as Nonprofits

United States Senator Benjamin Cardin today introduced legislation that would allow newspapers to become nonprofit organizations in what he described as "an effort to help the faltering [newspaper] industry survive."

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Do Ads in Google News Search Change the Fair Use Analysis?

Last Wednesday, Google began including advertisements in its Google News search results in the United States. The next day, Zachary Rodgers at ClickZ speculated that this move might stir major media companies to sue Google for copyright infringement, and

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Twitter Moves to Federal Court

The fights over whether blogging ought to be allowed during trials -- and whether it's good journalism -- aren't even over, and a new front has opened in the war over technology and its proper role in coverage of the justice system.

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Live-blogging journalism? You betcha. It's just not always good journalism.

As a young journalist, I remember listening with interest to colleagues recounting long-ago fights for the right to bring cameras into the court room. And while that battle hasn't been won everywhere, it appears nevertheless to be giving way to a new wave of concerns.

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Live Blogging in the Courtroom, Is It Journalism?

One of the recurring themes I've discovered in my reading assignments for law school is that judges are, by and large, not technologically savvy. Far from it, in fact. Thus, it was of great interest to me to find an ABA Journal article about U.S. District Judge Mark Bennett, who recently allowed a journalist for the Cedar Rapids Gazette to blog live during the a tax fraud trial in his Sioux City, Iowa, court.

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Iowa

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Thoughts on the Value of Journalism in the Wake of GateHouse v. New York Times Settlement

The fallout from the GateHouse v. New York Times settlement, anticlimactic as it was, has been fascinating, and deliciously exhaustive in the way that only Internet-based discussions of Internet-related issues can be.

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Massachusetts

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Authors: Government Censorship Better than Corporate

LA Observed has a post about how KRON TV in San Francisco disinvited the authors of a new book from a talk-show appearance after discovering that the book, No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-hour News Cycle, takes shots at the crappy state of local TV news. My initial reaction was incredulity. I mean, how clueless is that kind of move?

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California

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Huffington Post Criticized For Copying Content

Wired/Epicenter alerts us to the controversy swirling around the Huffington Post's new Chicago edition. Last week, Whet Moser of the Chicago Reader caught the Huffington Post using an entire Rea

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News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

Submitted by David Ardia on Thu, 12/18/2008 - 13:13

After a year of study, countless meetings, and at least two conferences, a team of researchers at the Berkman Center have released a series of papers exploring the potential and challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment (note: I played a small role in this work). If you are sitting there thinking that this is a BIG topic rife with thorny questions about the future of journalism, you're right.
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Access to Gov't Information
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AP Tells Google and Other News Aggregators to Pay Up or Face Lawsuits

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Do Ads in Google News Search Change the Fair Use Analysis?

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Twitter Moves to Federal Court

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Live-blogging journalism? You betcha. It's just not always good journalism.

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Live Blogging in the Courtroom, Is It Journalism?

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Thoughts on the Value of Journalism in the Wake of GateHouse v. New York Times Settlement

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Authors: Government Censorship Better than Corporate

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