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News-Press voted APME’s first Innovator of the Year
October 25, 2007
The News-Press has been named APME’s first Innovator of the Year “for its culture of innovation and a series of trend-setting initiatives that include mobile journalists, or mojos, crowdsourcing and a team of watchdog citizens.”
Judge tells site to reveal anonymous commenters’ names
October 23, 2007
A British court has ordered a site to reveal the names of anonymous commenters who criticized a football club.
The judge ordered that three fans whose postings might “reasonably be understood to allege greed, selfishness, untrustworthiness and dishonest behaviour”, should be unmasked. Their right to maintain their anonymity and express themselves freely was outweighed by the directors’ entitlement to take action to protect their reputation, he said.
Court orders obliging websites to disclose the identity of users posting anonymous defamatory remarks began in 2001.
Dominic Bray, of K&L Gates, Sheffield Wednesday’s solicitors, said: “There seem to be quite a lot of websites that are using their anonymity to make comments about people and think that there shouldn’t be any liability for it. But the internet is no different to any other place of publication, and if somebody is making defamatory comments about people then they should be held responsible for it. What these cases do is just confirm that’s the law - the law applies to the internet as much as it does to anything else.”
WNYC’s ‘Are You Being Gouged?’ crowdsourcing results
October 7, 2007
Here are the results of WNYC’s group journalism/crowdsourcing project, “Are You Being Gouged?” WNYC asked listeners to check the prices of three common items in their local store and report it on their website. They’ll be announcing the results on air later this week.
They got over 350 contributions and they’ve plotted all the prices on a map at their website. When the show page goes fully live, you’ll be able to click on the icons for any of the items and see the price, the name of the store, the address, and the listener’s comment.
Here are some of the findings based on what the listeners reported:
Most expensive milk: Crown Heights, Brooklyn (2.99 for a quart)
Least expensive place for milk: Gravesend, Brooklyn (99 cents for a quart)
Most expensive place to get beer (6 pack of Budweiser): Greenport, NY (14.99)
Least expensive place for beer: Redhook Fairway (4.49)
Most expensive place to get lettuce (iceberg): Tribeca (3.49)
Very nicely done.
Least expensive for lettuce: Wayne, NJ (0.79)
WNYC crowdsourcing: Are You Being Gouged?
September 24, 2007
WNYC’s latest crowdsourcing project asks listeners to go to their local grocery store and find out the price of three goods: milk, lettuce and beer.
You don’t have to buy them (or consume them), but we want to know how much they cost in different neighborhoods throughout the New York area.
Here’s the assignment:
Go to your local bodega, supermarket, or gourmet grocery store and get the prices for our predetermined basket of goods. Here’s the shopping list:
-a quart of regular, non-organic whole milk
-a head of iceberg lettuce
-a 6-pack of 12-ounce Budweiser (bottles)Then, come back to our website and leave the following information in a comment:
-The prices of these goods
-The neighborhood where you bought them (please give exact address, or at least the block and cross street)
-The name of the supermarket
-Any distinguishing characteristic (e.g. Korean Deli, high-end retailer, etc.)
-Whether or not you were surprised (yes or no)?You have until next 1 pm on Monday, October 1st to carry out the assignment. This is something you can do in the course of your regular shopping trip, but we encourage you to go the extra mile and report on neighborhoods and stores you wouldn’t normally shop in.
Next week we will report the findings, along with a map showing the most expensive and least expensive neighborhoods, and talk about what they mean on the air.
News services protest Rugby World Cup restrictions
September 6, 2007
Among them: News organizations can’t post more than 40 images online from matches in progress;, or more than three minutes of news conference or locker room video posted online per match.
ONA Challenges NFL Reporting Rules
August 7, 2007
The ONA has sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell taking exception to the NFL’s new policy that limits the use of online audio and video from team news conferences and interviews to no more than 45 seconds for a 24-hour period.
WNYC Radio crowdsourcing project
July 31, 2007
The Brian Lehrer Show on New York Public Radio, WNYC, is working on an interesting crowdsourcing project this week. Associate producer Jim Colgan tells CyberJournalist.net,” We’re asking our radio listeners to commit an act of journalism. We’re asking them to count the number of SUVs on their block, compared to the number of cars. It’s our first foray into the crowdsourcing, and what’s being called Pro-Am journalism. With all the talk of environmental sustainability in the city right now, we’re trying to find out just how many gas-guzzling SUVs are at our doorstep. We’ll look at the results of the assignment on our show later this week (Thursday), and look at what it means with an expert.”
Are you working on or have you completed an interesting crowdsourcing project? E-mail editor (at) cyberjournalist.net or submit it here.
Courier-Journal reporter ejected for blogging game
June 13, 2007
Wow: A Courier-Journal sports reporter had his media credential revoked and was ordered to leave the press box during the NCAA baseball super-regional this week because of what the NCAA alleged was a violation of its policies prohibiting live Internet updates from its championship events.
Good take on NFL’s new access policies Inbox
June 11, 2007
From News Tribune blogger Mike Sando:
The NFL under commissioner Roger Goodell has taken steps to improve media access to league personnel. A recently adopted access policy requires teams to make available coaches, players and front-office people at regular intervals. The league has also relaxed its policy on sideline TV crews.
Now comes a policy headed in the other direction. This one seeks to monopolize league-oriented audio and video content on the Web. The league is limiting sites such as this one to 45 seconds of league audio and video per day, with no archiving beyond 24 hours. The league wants fans to visit only league Web sites for audio and video featuring players, coaches and other league personnel. Like many policies, this one will have unintended consequences.
CBC, Washington Post, Slate partner with Facebook
June 6, 2007
CBCNews.ca, washingtonpost.com and Slate have partnered with the popular social network website Facebook.com in the past two weeks for a few different projects.