The Media Drop

On Tuesday, Lost Remote’s Cory Bergman wrote about the fact that there weren’t any more photos showing up all over the Drudge Report. Bergman was discussing the rights issues, but there’s a whole different issue that at least one of the commenters over there discussed - hotlinking.
The fact of the matter is, Matt Drudge has […]

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In recent months, stories have arisen about journalists and mediafolk who have been unmasked as having been on the payroll of government agencies. It was bad enough to be worrying about paid reviewers of products being touted on TV shows as objective individuals, but when we find that the government is involved, too, it’s too […]

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If there’s one thing you can learn while working as a journalist (or just playing one on your blog), it’s that information is everywhere. Tons of it. Company performance information, mergers & acquisition rumors, hirings and firings, new products-to-be, and much more. The important thing is knowing what to pursue, and what […]

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In Sunday’s Cincinnati Enquirer, John Kiesewetter details the situation at local radio station WLW-AM, whose staffers have been informed that they can make no mention of any television station personalities - or stations at all - that compete with WLW owner Clear Channel’s WKRC-TV. Nor will ads for the “competition” make the airwaves.
Radio stations […]

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Editor & Publisher’s Joe Strupp has details on the “recall” of a sports reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette from his post in Jacksonville to cover the New England Patriots at the Super Bowl. It turns out that a recent piece that ran on Ken Powers‘ byline contained “substantial portions” of a column […]

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For the last day and a half, I’ve been trying to figure out what, if any, warnings were given to the people in the various areas affected by Sunday’s tsunami in southern Asia / India. As it turns out, it doesn’t appear to be just as simple as a lack of “emergency broadcast system” […]

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LGF’s Charles Johnson leads us to an E&P story by Joe Strupp that discusses the lawsuit filed by eight individuals - six Navy SEALs and two of their wives - against the Associated Press on Tuesday for the use of a photograph that showed the SEALs’ faces. The suit states that the AP’s publishing […]

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Tuesday’s Editor & Publisher story about a proposed update to the ethics policy at the Associated Press detailed some concerns among union leaders about some of the restrictions involved. That being said, it appears that many of the tenets put forth are basic principles that AP staffers - along with journalists elsewhere - have […]

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Editor & Publisher’s Joe Strupp has the scoop on a proposed ethics policy that’s causing a stir with union leaders representing Associated Press journalists. The items in question include proper use of datelines, attribution for anonymous sources, and restrictions on ownership of company stock.

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Journalism-Freedom of the Press

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