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Pasadena Weekly Editors on Deleting Online Contentnew
With web archives getting more robust by the day, more sources are asking editors to change or delete old quotes and comments, Online Journalism Review reports. Reporter Elizabeth Zwerling talks to a few papers about how they've handled such requests, including the Pasadena Weekly, which in 2006 decided to remove the name of an ex-con from an archived story, six months after it came out in print. The story, on Crips co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams, featured quotes from a man who said he'd been in prison with Williams. The man had been charged with raping and sodomizing his former girlfriend, and convicted of assault -- information that was included in the story, along with the man's claims of innocence. "Our first reaction was 'no don't change it'," deputy editor Joe Piasecki says. "I tend to say that unless (the reporter) screwed up, don't change it." Piasecki, who was also the reporter for the story, says the paper made an exception in this case because the man wasn't familiar with the internet and his quotes weren't that important in the context of the story. The paper ultimately took the man's name out but kept the quotes in. "The guy said every time he applied for a job they Googled his name and this was the only hit," Piasecki says. "We took his name out so he could move on with his life."
Online Journalism Review |
08-29-2007 8:50 am |
Industry News
Report: Content Producers Need Intermediaries to Succeed Onlinenew
JupiterResearch's new report "Networked Media: Thriving In An Intermediated World" points to the importance of blogs, portals, and aggregators as digital megaphones for newspapers and other content producers. The report notes that 57 percent of 18-to-24-year-old internet users get their news from portals and that online users now trust portals nearly as much as traditional news media. "To thrive on the web, news sites must become more network-focused and aggregate content from other sources while distributing their own content through intermediaries," says David Schatsky, JupiterResearch's president.
Online Media Daily |
08-28-2007 2:16 pm |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
Mark Cuban: 'The Internet is Dead and Boring'new
Blog Maverick |
08-28-2007 10:27 am |
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Five Maxims for a Successful Digital Content Strategynew
Adotas |
08-27-2007 2:30 pm |
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Content Replaces Communications as Primary Web Usenew
Center for Media Research |
08-27-2007 2:06 pm |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
MySpace Unveils Ad Targetingnew
GigaOM |
08-27-2007 2:04 pm |
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Opinion: Online Video Will Help Dailies Capture Younger Audiencenew
Online Video Insider |
08-27-2007 12:55 pm |
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Daily Newspaper Web Editors Discuss Online Flops and Failuresnew
Editor & Publisher |
08-24-2007 10:25 am |
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Facebook to Mine User Profiles for Ad Targetingnew
Wall Street Journal |
08-23-2007 9:11 am |
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Former City Pages Editor to Launch 'Web-only Local Publication'new
Steve Perry, who left the paper earlier this year, tells the Minnesota Monitor that his new project is "a professional journalism site, but it's just as importantly conceived to be a community-and-conversations site." Though he won't reveal the site's name yet, it's set to launch in October or November. He says he's pulling inspiration from sites as diverse as The Stranger's, the Gothamist chain of city sites, and the Gawker Media sites. "I love the idea of building a forum that wantonly blurs the lines between 'professional' and 'amateur' voices wherever appropriate," Perry says. "After we started blogging extensively at City Pages, I was struck by how much I learned from the comments and correspondence it generated."
Minnesota Monitor |
08-22-2007 8:31 am |
Industry News
Creative Loafing CEO on New Papers: 'Why Would You Change Anything?'new
Responding to fears that out-of-town owners will change the ethos of the Chicago Reader and Washington City Paper, Ben Eason tells the St. Petersburg Times that he doesn't want to make any major changes, because the papers "are already at the top of their game." He says his goal with the new six-paper chain is to create "a national platform, national quality technology, that features local content." Creative Loafing also doesn't "have a mandate to share editorial," according to Eason. "If you put your efficiency hat on, could one film reviewer do the same job for everybody? Perhaps, but that connection to film and the local community is something I'm proud of."
St. Petersburg Times |
08-21-2007 8:42 am |
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Forrester: Traditional Web Advertising Failing on Social Networksnew
vnunet.com |
08-20-2007 11:14 am |
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Why are Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives Floundering?new
BusinessWeek |
08-16-2007 9:53 am |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
YouTube vs. Google Stats Show That Alexa is 'Useless'new
TechCrunch |
08-14-2007 11:42 am |
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Tags: Electronic Publishing, Management
JupiterResearch: Social Media Not Best for Brand Advocatesnew
Online Media Daily |
08-14-2007 11:26 am |
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