By Mindy McAdams
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Melissa Worden asks about ethics in gathering and editing audio. I am asked these questions a lot when I do training.
Worden found (and quoted) some excellent resources.
Here’s what I tell students:
The cardinal rule is the same as in written journalism, when you write quotes into a story: Never change the meaning of what the person [...]
Allan Detrich, a 25-veteran of photojournalism, has resigned from his job at the Toledo Blade newspaper. This is a sad story, and I feel more compassion for Detrich (whom I have never met) than anything else.
His story will serve as a cautionary tale for our students for many years.
The moral of the story is [...]
Food for thought from Jeff Jarvis (writing from the We Media gathering in London):
A man from the room says one cannot edit without an agenda and he asks what is the BBC’s agenda other than ‘you are right and we are wrong.’ The BBC is caught in the same bind as old American papers — [...]
In Wikis test students’ research skills, Roger Riddell writes that the increasing use of Wikipedia and “similar online reference tools” is adding urgency to the need to educate people about how to judge the accuracy and reliability of Web information.
Wikipedia got a black eye last year when John Seigenthaler, a former aide to Robert Kennedy [...]
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