September 3rd, 2010
Fact-checking has come a long way in the Internet age, evolving to a point beyond recognition. In the good old days, fact-checking was a venerable profession with its set of ethical rules, and fact-checkers were an integral part of any self-respecting....
August 13th, 2010
Loki, one of our bloggers at SixEstate, passed along an article by AOL editor Lori Fradkin, “What It’s Really Like To Be A Copy Editor.” It resonated with me big time. Fradkin writes,
When I left to take a non-copyediting position at....
August 9th, 2010
“Copyright is for losers,” infamously proclaimed graffiti artist, political activist, and “Britain’s newest national treasure” Banksy in his book, Wall and Piece. Banksy’s artistic genius aside, we respectfully disagree.....
July 20th, 2010
Laurie Penny covers pop culture and politics for the New Statesman. In a recent column, she writes:
As more and more of us cherry-pick our media online, drawing little distinction between the mainstream press and the popular blogosphere, industry insiders....
July 13th, 2010
An ordinary citizen defies the government to release sensitive data over the Internet, to spread information he or she feels should not be kept secret. It’s something that is happening more and more frequently, and is even being recognized by top....
July 9th, 2010
Let’s optimistically assume that all printed books go through at least one round of copyediting. With print publishing having to cope with economic recession, there’s still hope that the industry standards have not dropped beyond reasonable.
Grant....
July 1st, 2010
With increasing frequency, larger media outlets are taking chances on new ways of acquiring content. The NYC Beat, a “citizen journalism music blog” from The Huffington Post, is searching for new writers in the New York City area:
In an effort....
June 23rd, 2010
Krishna Bharat, the creator of Google News, is optimistic about the future of journalism. He believes it can survive as long as it adapts to the changes within the industry. In an interview conducted at the IJ-7 conference at Stanford University, which....
June 22nd, 2010
Hyperlocal content and community is a rapidly growing trend, as mentioned frequently here on the SixEstate blog. Even national and international media outlets are getting in on the action by creating local-specific projects.
The Guardian is based in....
June 16th, 2010
On Monday, YouTube announced that the CitizenTube section of its website will now support a fulltime news venue dubbed the YouTube News Feed.
In the past two years since its inception, CitizenTube has only been updated sporadically. Now, its companion....
