Training helps bloggers hone professionalism

Miami real estate agent Lucas Lechuga began blogging to share his knowledge of the local market. He didn't bargain for a $25 million defamation lawsuit when he wrote that a Miami developer had gone bankrupt decades ago.

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CNN.com Creates User Submissions Section

With camera phones and other gadgets a greater part of everyday life, CNN wants to make it easier for viewers to submit images they happen to capture as they witness news in the making.

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This "Seed" is about Politics, but as importantly, the increasing role the Internet, Social Networks, and Citizen Journalism is playing in shaping our present and future world.

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Celebrating Christmas, Minneapolis Style

Every year, Minnesotans grab their heaviest coats, snow pants, blankets, mittens, scarves, hats and hot coffee/chocolate and head downtown to see Holidazzle. This Christmas parade begins after dark and has become Minneapolis tradition.

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Announcement: Official Newsvine Coverage at CES 2010

The forms have been filled out and the hurdles have been cleared: As of today, I am officially registered to cover the 2010 Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas as an MSNBC.com / Newsvine correspondent, live-blogging from the NBC Universal Blogger Lounge and elsewhere arou …

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By the time photojournalists learned that three bombs had detonated in the London Underground, they knew that they were already too late.

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Photojournalism Rewind: Protesting the Republican National Convention, 2008

I promised some time ago that I was going to get some additional photographs up from the Republican National Convention uploaded onto Flickr. There's no excuse for not letting any of you know about it until now.

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Fire at the night club "Khromaya Loshad" (Lame Horse) [RUS] in a central Russian city Perm killed more than 100 people. According to an official version, the fire was caused by fireworks inside the club.

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his is a summary of a paper that explores, in great depth and detail, the role of technologies that use digitally managed personal information to shape the content and direct the delivery of content in a journalistic setting.

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On November 17, YouTube launched a new tool for Citizen Journalism, called YouTube Direct. One advantage will be that if a website uses the video, that website will be automatically linked to the youtube video.

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Today's guest panel debate went from the left to the right and also took into account the centrist view regarding the issue of journalism and in particular what constitutes news versus feature stories, the practice of flaming behind a pseudonym and how to prevent and/or respond t …

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Paul Carr writes in Techcrunch – After Fort Hood, another example of how 'citizen journalists' can't handle the truth. Paul describes that during the Fort Hood news blackout, Twitter updates contributed to the disinformation.

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Normally, I'm pretty gung-ho for social media and cit­i­zen jour­nal­ism. I really do believe that jour­nal­ism isn't some high-and-mighty, elit­ist pro­fes­sion.

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Thoroughness. Accuracy. Fairness. Independence. Transparency.

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Domke did a study with old and young news consumers.

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Many of our journalists desire to exercise their 1st Amendment rights by gathering information about what happens in school board meetings, community events, county commission meetings or in the state legislature.

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A story from ABC (Australia) show "Foreign Correspondent" that explores the role of citizen journalism and related technology in Iran during the recent anti-government demonstrations in the nation among Iranian youth.

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In a widely reported controversy, Illinois prosecutors responded to a Protess-led, university-based journalistic investigation of a 31-year-old murder conviction with subpoenas seeking "virtually every conceivable record" relating to the school's newsgathering activities, i …

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Google's Birthday Marks 11 Years of Change

Spelling is not my best subject, but having Google as my default page today's double ll, Googlle logo jumped out immediately. It's their 11th Birthday and what a transformative decade plus it has been.

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from the oh-really? dept. Mathew Ingram points us to the news that President Obama has indicated that he's at least open to hearing bills that would help bailout the newspaper industry because he's afraid of reporting becoming "all blogosphere":

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Information Nation

I am not one for uncivilized discourse. I have always had the mindset that if two parties involved in an argument cannot see the bigger picture of an issue and what is needed to resolve it, then there is no point in engaging.

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I get to Combine Journalism and Fantasy, Good Times!

I'm not sure why, but people don't really think about fantasy and science fiction when they hear Idaho mentioned.

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SPIEGEL: Your local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, is fighting for survival. If it was to disappear tomorrow ... Anderson: ... I wouldn't notice. I don't even know what I'd be missing.

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AS THE first tweets about yesterday's Jakarta bombings made their way around the world, the Future of Journalism conference at Melbourne University was wrestling with the rise of citizen journalism.

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If at all possible, don't go into education journalism or stay there long.

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When she headed the Huffington Post's "OfftheBus" project, Amanda Michel led a nationwide team of citizen reporters as they looked into stories of the 2008 presidential election that weren't covered by the media.

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Alison van Diggelen took all this business about anyone being a citizen journalist seriously. She's not the sort to register with Blogger to start tapping out essays on the battles between California gray squirrels and the pesky blue jays in her verdant backyard.

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