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- AUDIO: Borrell's Conti on why newspapers must "get" mobile fast -- ads and audience
- AUDIO: Susan Karol on SNA research on news website user-generated content
- AUDIO: Dan Kennedy on social media, blogging and journalism
- AUDIO: The art of digital and online photography
- AUDIO: Retaining reporters and free-lancers
New Englanders value open records, want tougher open-access laws, news-organization study finds
Source: New England Society of Newspaper Editors
Full poll results are available on the NEFAC/Northeastern website:
www.northeastern.edu/firstamendment
The vast majority of New Englanders believe that having open access to the workings of government is important to citizenship and most favor toughening the laws that protect access, according to a poll of attitudes toward the First Amendment. Moreover, nearly nine out of ten New Englanders believe government agencies that wrongly withhold public records should pay the legal bills necessary to open them.
One-day news/media literacy confab at MIT on Saturday Oct. 24
Are you concerned about a generation of youth who aren't paying attention to the news? Find out about at least a half-dozen initiatives in American classrooms to do something about it -- at a one-day Media/News Literacy symposium at MIT, in Cambridge, on Saturday, Oct. 24. For details of a key breakout session on Saturday at 10:30 a.m., go to: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mit-media-literacy-jouranalism
Video - "NEWSOUT: What happens when the newsroom lights dim"
The New England News Forum has made video available from the “Newsout: Options and strategies for New England communities when the newsroom lights dim” event which took place on March 21, 2009 at Boston University. Click here to view videos.
NEWSOUT: What happens when newsroom lights dim -- NENF symposium March 21 at Boston Univ.
BOSTON, Mass. - Dramatic declines in the quantity or quality of local news, and the impact on participatory democracy in New England communities were topics at a daylong collaboration among some 45 public officials, journalists and concerned citizens Sat., March 21.
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"Newsout: Options and strategies for New England communities when the newsroom lights dim," was a one-day participatory conference co-sponsored by the New England News Forum (NENF) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Boston University College of Communication and the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism.
The conference ran from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Boston University's College of Communication.
"Sharing the News" symposium draws 45 to UMass-Lowell, Alumni Library
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Some 45 New England college journalism educators, high-school newspaper advisors, editors, news directors, citizen journalists, bloggers
Death of Conn. newspapers -- what are the options?
The news last week that Journal Register Co. might shutter two Connecticut newspapers is generating some interesting discussions.
MGP2006 alum Aldon Hynes, who lives on the Connecticut coast. He's posted some thoughts on his blog, Orient Lodge, entitled "The Future of the Newspaper." In reply, JTM-Silicon Valley alumn David Cohn talks about the premise behind Spot.us -- a site he launched Nov. 10 which allows the public to support journalism by direct contribution.
Massachusetts shield law fails again -- New effort needed to stem criticism that it was a special-interest bill
The government will always cover up its mistakes if it operates in secret and that it was up to journalists to expose the truth…..Robert Schieffer, CBS News Reporter.
Blog Commentary by John Gatti
In Massachusetts, the 2008 Reporters Shield Law legislation has failed again to win passage. This will continue, in my view, unless the legislation is precise, comprehensive and not self serving for journalists. And that's unfortunate, because news reporters and their sources need the protection.
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