By Mike Masnick
Back in May we wrote about a lawsuit questioning whether or not a blogger could use journalism shield laws to protect a source who sent her info she used for a blog post. The company the info was about is suing her for slander (which is odd, since slander is usually spoken, while [...]

ByÂ
Alexandra Le Tellier

 

As news outlets sprang into action to report on Michael Jackson’s condition June 25, users on social media sites were whipped into a frenzy: He’s not breathing! He’s in a coma! He had a heart attack! And then a Facebook status update, made at 2:21 p.m., that Jackson had died.
Of course, 23 [...]

By Jeff Jarvis
Following the frighteningly dangerous thinking of Judge Richard Posner – proposing rewriting copyright law to outlaw linking to and summarizing (aka talking about) news stories – now we have two more lemming lawyers following him off the cliff in a column written by the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz.
First note well that Schultz [...]

By Howard Kurtz

Â
For Chuck Todd, getting calls from Rahm Emanuel is a staple of covering the White House. But they dwell as much on what the NBC correspondent knows as what he can get the president’s top aide to divulge.
For New York Times columnist David Brooks, it’s an Emanuel invitation for a White House chat [...]

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
 

Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will announce on Saturday, greatly expanding their potential audience and helping newspapers fill the gap left by their own shrinking resources.
Starting on July 1, the A.P. will deliver work by the Center for Public Integrity, [...]

Blah blah newsmag remake blah blah.
By Michael Kingsley
Having recently been dumped by Time, I naturally had great hopes for this week’s much-anticipated makeover of Newsweek. Both surviving newsmags (US News is said to exist still in some form, but no one I know has seen it lately) are in an Internet panic like that affecting [...]

Will P.R. pros take the baton of investigative journalism?
By Tim Cavanaugh 

Who will do investigative reporting once the daily newspapers go out of business? This seems like a rhetorical question. Without a large journalistic institution paying the substantial costs, how could anybody out there have the guts, the moxie, the chutzpah to wear out the shoe [...]

by Peter Osnos
Â
The future of news isn’t newspapers, blogs, or revenue-sharing models—it’s all three. From Rupert Murdoch on down to the Internet’s cub reporters, meet the newshounds who are joining forces to reshape tomorrow’s media landscape.

Like the mayhem in the broader economy, the media-business crisis is far from over, and in the case of [...]

Evening Standard, Touting Redesign, Apologizes for Past Coverage, Promises to Do Better

By AARON O. PATRICK
As newspapers around the world frantically search for ways to keep readers, one British newspaper is trying an unusual tactic: apologizing for its past coverage.
The Evening Standard, the only paid-for daily paper circulated solely in London, last week launched a billboard [...]

By HERBERT G. McCANN

Reporters at the Chicago Tribune say they believe the marketing department in recent weeks solicited subscribers’ opinions on stories before they were published, a practice they said raises ethical questions, as well as legal and competitive issues.An e-mail signed by 55 reporters and editors, sent Wednesday to Editor Gerould Kern and Managing [...]