How BlogHer deals with reviews and conflicts of interest from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘ve been struck by the varying reactions to this week’s news that the Federal Trade Commission will now begin to regulate product endorsements not just in advertisements but also on blogs and other forms of social media. (PDF here; the regs […]
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Highlights from ONA 2009
How journalists can use social media to build community View more documents from JD Lasica. At first glance, the Online News Association’s annual conference this past weekend looked like a throwback to the early days of Web journalism, with lots of familiar faces from the early days of the esteemed new media group. Jai Singh […]
Newspaper social media policies: Out of touch
Photo by Zarko Drincic on Flickr This year we’ve seen the steady succession of social media policies issued by major news organizations. The common theme that runs through these edicts is that they were written by top managers, with the input of lawyers, who seem to have little understanding of how social media can benefit […]
Social journalism: Using social networks to build community
Social journalism: Community building through social networks View more documents from JD Lasica. Here’s the slide presentation I gave yesterday at the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association Summit of newspaper publishers and ad managers. My talk turned out to be 80 minutes long. A half dozen newspaper executives thanked me for the presentation afterward, so the […]
AP News Registry aims at most flagrant infringers
More details about Associated Press’s move to protect its content unveiled at Seattle summit I left the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association Summit of newspaper publishers and ad managers yesterday just as two executives from the Associated Press were winding up their presentation on the new AP News Registry. The new initiative, announced in July, contains […]