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Facebook privacy and face recognition
So we are all worried about our privacy but we post countless pictures of ourselves and our family members on social media websites. Here are the potential dangers in a story on Slate: Do you believe it all? What do you do to protect your identity online?
Posted in: Privacy
Joe Paterno death reports: First isn’t always best
January 22, 2012
by tomhanson64
In today’s media world, a scoop (a breaking news item) is measured by minutes instead of days. But what is really more important: Being first or being accurate? Saturday night a few journalists suffered their worst nightmare. Several news organizations reported that former Penn State coach Joe Paterno had died. The family says this is […]
Posted in: Copyright laws
First Amendment in the college opinion section
December 3, 2011
by Andrew Friedgen
by Andrew Friedgen adfriedg@eagle.fgcu.edu College students, thrown into a new world where free thought is emphasized, are some of most susceptible to “faulty opinion”—that is, unfounded and hyperbolic understanding of issues. As the opinion section editor for the school newspaper, one of my goals is to have writers who are able to avoid “faulty opinion” […]
Posted in: First Amendment law
Ethics in a student newsroom
December 2, 2011
by allison1234
By Allison Gagliardi amgaglia@eagle.fgcu.edu As editor for the student newspaper at Florida Gulf Coast University we have decisions to make on a daily basis regarding right and wrong. One of the more recent discussions in our newsroom was whether opinion writers and opinion editors should be able to produce content outside of their section. […]
Posted in: Copyright laws
Avoiding perception of bias: AP redefines Social Media guidelines
November 6, 2011
by tomhanson64
Journalists are supposed to report the news and not make the news. And news journalists should never give their opinion on the news. The Associated Press reiterated that journalist should remain, or be perceived as, unbiased, in releasing its Social Media guidelines. “AP employees must refrain from declaring their views on contentious public issues in […]
Posted in: Internet laws, Media ethics/Case Studies
Tryin’, cryin’ & grumblin’ about dropped ‘g’ from Obama speech
October 19, 2011
by tomhanson64
Whatcha talkin’ about Willis? Gary Coleman, playing Arnold on Different Strokes, made this phrase famous. Is this the correct spelling to the phrase? Would the meaning of the phrase change if Whatcha became What you? Or more significant of late, would be wrong if a “g” got added to talkin’? The famous phrase has flavor. […]
Posted in: Media ethics/Case Studies
Eliminating all of those unnecessary journalism phrases
October 3, 2011
by tomhanson64
There is a very unique website that is definitely a game-changer when it comes to examining unnecessary phrases used by journalists. The name of the website gets right to the point: Unnecessary Journalism Phrases. The author, Josh Sternberg, has introduced a new and innovative way of bringing needed attention to our desire to complicate sentences. […]
Posted in: Copyright laws
The headline that has all of Detroit, and the newspaper industry, talking
September 28, 2011
by tomhanson64
All newspaper editors know the importance of getting an important story above the fold. Never before have had any of them had to consider what impact a simple cross fold on the page would do to a headline. This edition of the Detroit Free Press sitting in a newspaper rack has to make the most […]
Posted in: Funny, Media ethics/Case Studies
Media Law & Ethics 411 
September 11, 2013
by tomhanson64
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