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Attribution and Linking Are Essential to Transparency

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Rather than focus their lead on the story, they focus it on the attribution. In the new-media era of journalism, the arguably most important ethical principle is transparency. Related posts: Ethics: Is Transparency All We Need? He blanched, then told me he’d taken the quotes from various sources on the Internet.

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Process vs. Product: Six New-Media Principles, No. 6

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The new-media principles of transparency and openness discussed in my last two posts mean that readers can both see and participate in the process of journalism itself. Behind every fact-checked and edited story is a tale of false leads, dead ends, and empty promises.

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Three Stock Photography Pitfalls to Avoid

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This sometimes leads to memorable embarrassments: As the Wall Street Journal points out , the Gingrich crowd shot first appeared on a website for the late liberal democrat Ted Kennedy, accompanied by the phrase “we are the democratic majority.” No doubt the service would think so now.

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