The Web has entirely changed the journalist-reader relationship. Two-way reader interaction is gaining ground through email, comments, SMS, online chats and blog posts, 24/7. This would imply that news outlets increasingly need ombudsmen. Yet there are reportedly fewer than 40 ombudsmen in the US, and few papers are willing to hire one, at a time of general cost-cutting. Maybe they should think about the potential costs of not having an ombudsman, and figure that the readers’ editor is not (only) a guardrail against angry readers. He or she is a bridge into Web 2.0 journalism.
After their speeches, the group on stage during the Reuters Master Class at the 14th World Editors Forum in Cape Town fielded some questions from participants curious about the role that social and citizens media will play in the media landscape.
On Friday Nov.16th, Universal Music Group launched a suit against MySpace.com for copyright infringement.
The complaint regards the tools MySpace provides for its users to upload, download and link ‘user-generated’ content, which usually consists in reality of copyrighted products. “It is the ‘user-stolen’ intellectual property of others, and MySpace is a willing partner in that theft,” the suit charged.
Posted by John Burke on October 20, 2006 at 3:53 PM
Copiepresse, the organization that helps protect the copyright of French and German-language publications in Belgium, has issued
Microsoft with a "cease and desist" letter, demanding the removal of its member publications' content from the MSN website. Copiepresse
recently won a court case against
Google over the same matter.
