New York Times: On Twitter, Conservative (or Liberal) by Association
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 15:31
"Much of the discussion about over-sharing on social networks has focused on users not being able to escape from something they have said online. But a person’s connections are also revealing, as this research found."
Ben Goldacre: If you don’t link to primary sources, you are dead to me
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:41
Ben Goldacre: "If you don't link to primary sources, you are dead to me, I do not trust you. There is a high risk that you chose not to link it, because you're hiding something"
Bad Science: Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:40
Ben Goldacre: "Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? Whether it’s a press release, an academic journal article, a formal report, or perhaps (if everyone’s feeling brave) the full transcript of an interview, the primary source contai…
New York Times: What Would Ellsberg Do With Pentagon Papers Today?
Monday, 19 April 2010, 10:16
"[If] someone today had the Pentagon Papers, or the modern equivalent, would he still go to the press, as Daniel Ellsberg did nearly 40 years ago and wait for the documents to be analyzed and published? Or would that person simply post them online immediately? [Daniel] Ellsberg knows his answer. 'As of today, I wouldn’t have waited that long,' he said in an interview last week. 'I would have gotten a scanner and put them on the Internet.'"
Nieman Journalism Lab: Iceland aims to become an offshore haven for journalists and leakers
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 22:19
"On Tuesday, the Icelandic parliament is expected to introduce a measure aimed at making the country an international center for investigative journalism publishing, by passing the strongest combination of source protection, freedom of speech, and libel-tourism prevention laws in the world. … Could global news organizations with a home office in Reykjavík soon be as common as Delaware corporations or Cayman Islands assets?"
YouTube: Newswipe S02E02 at 5:09
Saturday, 30 January 2010, 13:16
Heather Brooke on Newswipe on attribution and sourcing and accountablity in British journalism.
Your Right To Know: When Brooke met Brooker
Saturday, 30 January 2010, 12:51
Heather Brooke on Charlie Brooker's Newswipe: "I’m talking here about the way journalists grant public officials anonymity for no good reason. By the very definition of their role, official spokespeople have absolutely no reason to be anonymous yet one of the more dubious practices of the British press is the way reporters collude with officials by granting anonymity."
ComputerWorld: Wikileaks plans to make the Web a leakier place
Friday, 9 October 2009, 14:39
"Wikileaks … is working on a plan to make the Web leakier by enabling newspapers, human rights organizations, criminal investigators and others to embed an 'upload a disclosure to me via Wikileaks' form onto their Web sites."
Shane Richmond: Naming Nightjack: The Times was right legally but wrong morally
Friday, 19 June 2009, 10:54
Shane Richmond: "I can see the sense in both The Times's argument and Mr Justice Eady's. The legal case is clear but I'm less comfortable with the moral case. Nightjack was trying to shed light on his work and bring the public a view of policing that could only be done anonymously. Shouldn't newspapers be protecting people like him? Certainly, The Times would have protected him had he been their source. But being out on his own meant that he was fair game."
Times Online: Nightjack: mixed feelings over his exposure
Friday, 19 June 2009, 10:32
"We must confess to mixed feelings about the High Court ruling which allows the name of the award-winning blogger Nightjack to be published." (more unimpressed commenters)
Media Guardian: MPs’ expenses: how scoop came to light – and why journalists fear a ‘knock on the door’
Monday, 18 May 2009, 19:56
"The expenses data was sighted by at least three other newspapers before the Telegraph broke the story more than a week ago."
WSJ.com: Ex-Army Officer Helped Paper Get Sensitive Information
Sunday, 17 May 2009, 14:19
"In the hyper-competitive world of Fleet Street, it is a burning question: how did the Daily Telegraph newspaper obtain sensitive information on politicians' expenses that have been secret for years."
Belfast Telegraph: Journalist refuses to hand over Real IRA information
Monday, 4 May 2009, 08:35
"Suzanne Breen, Sunday Tribune Northern Editor, has been threatened with legal action if she doesn't give up phones, computers, discs, notes and other material linked to two articles she has written on the paramilitary organisation."
Monday, 9 June 2008, 13:06
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"In addition to rifling through telephone records for a year from 2005 to 2006 to determine the extent of contacts between management and journalists, it now looks as though Telekom was also using mobile phone signals to keep track of their locations."
