Google and the Center for Investigative Reporting are hosting a conference today at Google headquarters dubbed "TechRaking" 2012. The conference was meant to "inspire muckraking b...
Sad news today for the journalism world as Mike Wallace passed away at the age of 93. He will best remembered as one of the toughest men on television as he interviewed crooks and...
A man named Tom Kreft (if that is his real name) played an early April Fool's joke on the press and the Internet at large, by claiming to have won the Mega Millions lottery jackpot...
Freedom of speech -- and thus, consequently, freedom to advertise -- are fundamental principles of a free democracy and a thriving capitalist democracy, right? That's what we're to...
The Mexican senate approved constitutional changes on Tuesday that make any attack on a journalist and media workers a federal crime. Any crime carried out against these types of p...
Let me preface this by saying that I am all for giving credit where credit is due on the web. However, people are trying to develop standards for online content curation and attrib...
Should you have to pay to link? Sadly, it's a question we keep having to ask, because organizations and lawmakers keep giving us reason to. If you're a longtime reader, you probabl...
The transition at AOL's TechCrunch continues as editor Erick Schonfeld has stepped down. This is just the latest in a series of pre-AOL acquisition TechCrunchers leaving. Some have...
In what some would consider a bold move, the associated press has changed their logo of almost 30 years. The finished product is no doubt the result of intense labor by a team of h...
If you're active on Twitter, you've probably encountered plenty of bots - fake users that spam the hell out of you with links, free iPad offers, and other dubious things. These ac...
Let me start off by saying: No. I don't think news organizations should have to pay people for referencing their tweets. But this is a similar logic to how some traditional news or...
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