"[R]eporters are effectively ‘embedded’, with all the ethical and professional considerations that that should entail. The question is, is the pressure to produce web video bringing newspapers too close to the police?"

"Beijing’s Gehua New Century Hotel, site of the official non-accredited media center for the Beijing Olympics in August, has rescinded its offer to pay journalists as much as 1000 yuan ($145) for positive stories."

Interesting PCC ruling that could have future implications for newspapers’ geotagging efforts. Also interesting because the existence of a Wikipedia article is part of the justification for allowing newspapers to report information.

"By monitoring the signals from 100,000 mobile-phone users … a team from Northeastern University … has worked out some apparently universal laws of human motion." Commenters are not impressed.

Nature today publishes a study of human movements based on tracking their mobile phones’ locations. AP’s story says the paper raises the emerging ethical issue of "locational privacy".

"Staff of the new Thomson-Reuters are forbidden from using blogs for internal communications and for liaising with co-workers. The merged news agency produced a new a code of ethics late last week…"

A recent TechCrunch post about Twitter is cited here as an example of what differentiates big-time blogging and journalism, and why advertisers will continue to be wary of blogs.

"Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times h

"… any professional …reporter who agrees to respect an "off the record" request at a meeting is committing an act of unilateral professional disarmament. I say… bag that. Don’t tell organizers that you’re a reporter. You’re a citizen, too. Get in, a

"The editors of the Daily Express and Daily Star should resign. So should the editors of the Sunday Express and Daily Star on Sunday. They won’t, of course."

"The court-appointed attorney for Ashley Dupré, the prostitute linked with Gov. Eliot Spitzer, defended his client’s privacy in this letter sent to the media.He says that Dupré was ‘thrust into the public glare at age 22 without her consent’"

"Online users only need click over to Google to find a controversial site in a few seconds anyway. I’d rather see news site provide the link, possibly with an intermediary warning page about what the viewer is about to see. Serve the readers; don’t ma

"Much of the background information on [22-year old Ashley Alexandra Dupre, otherwise known as Kristen.
], as well as photos, have come from social networking sites, such as MySpace."

"The Press Complaints Commission yesterday announced that Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail … will be the new chairman of the Editorial Code Committee … There are many reasons why I think this is a bad idea. Here I’ll name just 5"