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Engagement is a big buzzword in journalism today. But what if the future of journalism lies not only in building the right app or tech tool but in developing deep and meaningful connections between reporters and residents?
That’s what Free Press’ News Voices: New Jersey project set out to discover six months ago.
Soledad O'Brien Fact-Checks a Politician Live (A.K.A.: journalism).
Day of Action to Save Our News: Stop the Kochs
The FCC just took a critical first step toward tightening its rules and putting more of the public airwaves into the hands of local owners.
So what happens next?
U.S. journalists should be able to enter the country without fear of detention or intimidation.
But government authorities have been stopping journalists, whistleblowers and many other travelers on a regular basis, seizing their electronic devices and examining them without search warrants.
This harassment needs to stop.
Demand that Attorney General Eric Holder stop the harassment of journalists.
The British government’s conflation of journalism with terrorism in the case of David Miranda is problematic largely because journalism, like terrorism, is no longer performed by discrete, centralized entities. Instead, journalists and those performing journalism around the world operate in small cells or individually. You post a video of police detaining a suspect to your Facebook wall, and you’re committing an act of journalism — one that authority figures may not see as subject to First — or Fourth — Amendment protections.
"Edward Snowden has said, ‘I’ve committed a serious crime,’ the newspaper that has put this out there surely should be prepared to answer questions about whether anything they have done – in cahoots with this guy, we don’t know how far he goes – anything they’ve done borders on criminality....
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