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RTDNA releases social media and blogging guidelines for journalists
Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 by Aaron Manfull.
How should professional journalists deal with their Tweets, Facebook entries and Blogs? When do you run photo or videos from outside sources? What can a journalist write on a personal blog? The Radio Television Digital News Association just released new Social Media and Blogging Guidelines for its professional journalists. It’s already created a lot of [...]
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The three ‘P’s of online legal issues
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by JEA Digital Media.
Those thinking about expanding their student media outreach need to keep three concepts in mind: three Ps of online legal issues. Policy When you design editorial guidelines for your digital media, create them as equivalents with your print or broadcast media. You do not want separate and unequal designations of rights and responsibilities, especially if [...]
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You don’t need permission to run photos in your web news publication
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by JEA Digital Media.
Do you need permission to run photographs in your print news publication? No? Then you don’t need it for online pictures either. Student journalists have every right to publish online photos they would otherwise use in their print publications. The fact that those pictures can be seen by a larger, potentially worldwide group is not [...]
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Web and Print Legal guidelines are the same
Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by JEA Digital Media.
The law as it applies to scholastic news Web sites comes down to one guideline: The courts make no distinction between print publications and their online counterparts. So many shareholders will tell you the law is different, that somehow the rules are altered for Web publications. Those shareholders – administrators, community members, etc. – will [...]
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