DigitalCustom Group on Thursday announced the publication of Release Version 2.0 of the “DigitalCustom Model Ethics Guidelines to Protect the Integrity of Journalistic Photographs in Digital Editing.” DigitalCustom’s President, Jeff Makoff said, “The power to edit a historical image brings with it the ability to manipulate history. Archivists and digital artists should discuss, and ultimately […]
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Of speed and quality in online journalism
Keni, a student at University of Indonesia, asks: In his book, Philip Seib said that in this “real time” world, speed and quality is not always compatible. Referring to that statement, I was wondering if you could tell me what you think he meant when using the term “quality”? There is a natural tradeoff — […]
On weblogs, journalism and ethics
A grad student at Michigan State University writes to get my take on how weblogs are emerging as a journalistic form and how journalistic ethics apply to them. In her online forays she came across my two-part series on weblogs and journalism in OJR. Here are her questions and my responses: An interesting argument which […]