Issues with Digital Journalism
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Ethical Issues in Online Journalism
- Authenticating sources of information, especially when they are provided by an anonymous source.
- Assuring the reliability of information on linked sites.
- Dealing with conflicts of interest. Concerns involving lack of oversight or accountability." [1]
The End of the Newspaper
"Imagine that printing had never been invented and that we only had the internet today. And, I came to you and said, 'I have a great business idea: we gather together all the news of the day, single the most important stories out, print them on giant, expensive printing presses, on paper, and then drive them with an unbelievably expensive fleet of trucks across the country, hand them out, and for all that, you can read today's news tomorrow morning.' Would you give me any money? The newspaper is moving away from the news business and toward background stories with specific profiles; weekly papers will probably give up news altogether.. this pull toward online is going to eventually affect television and radio as well. The internet will be the center, and the other media- the other media will be satellites" - Warren Buffett"
The Seattle P-I
International Issues
Rundfunkstaatsvertrag
German federal broadcasting agreement that "only authorized online departments to offer Programmbegleitung (program accompaniment) for already broadcast radio and televisual material. Thus, for example, the text of a radio interview or a television clip could be placed on the public broadcaster's website. But the online department could not research and develop it's own "unique content" and then broadcast it. It was also mandated that the public broadcasters could spend no more than .75% of their entire budget upon online initiatives" The idea behind the strict budgetary limits was that it would not allow the German Public Broadcasting system to dominate German online news media. It's also a really great word.
