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Opinion: Chicago Tribune trusts local news coverage to ‘robots and content farms’

donal brown April 26, 2012

The Chicago Tribune fired 20 of its journalists and  employed a local company called Journatic to provide its local news, Mathew Ingram of GigaOM is asking if that outfit is just another “content farm” using robotic methods of complying the news. Some warn that using robots to provide news results in meaningless data while  others defend the methods saying that dull, repetitive tasks are done by robots to free up humans to add real value

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Opinion: Son of late Nevada governor harassing reporter in court

donal brown April 26, 2012

Jeff Guinn, the son of the late Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn, is so unhappy with the reporting of a lawsuit brought against him by investors that he is suing the reporter claiming she was bribed with personal favors to pursue the story. The problem is that even after losing in lower court, Guinn has appealed to the state Supreme Court, in effect, creating a disincentive for reporters to aggressively report the news in the public’s

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Opinion: Suggestions made for saving news industry

donal brown April 26, 2012

Speakers at a conference for media executives urged them to bolster the bottom line by radically changing the way they presented the news. Among their suggestions were to provide more context for and linkages to the news; provide more analysis; and employ alternatives to the narrative form, e.g., “Fusion Tables and query strings, status updates and tweets.” -db From a commentary in paidContent, April 26,2012, by Robert Andrews. Full story  

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Opinion: First Amendment lawyer argues for open trials at Guantanamo Bay

donal brown April 19, 2012

The country would be well served if the military judge at Guantanamo Bay would open the tribunals trying terrorism suspects, writes First Amendment lawyer David A. Schulz. Schulz argues that open trials would provide public acceptance of verdicts, accountability for those trying the cases and and democratic oversight. -db From a commentary for The New York Times, April 18, 2012, by David A. Schulz. Full story  

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Opinion: Judges can easily allow Twitter and protect right to fair trial

donal brown April 17, 2012

With judges edgy about allowing reporters to tweet in the courtroom lest they compromise a defendant’s right to a fair trial, Ken Paulson of the First Amendment Center argues that the new technology need not get in the way. Paulson says anxious judges could at the very least set up a separate room with live video for reporters on Twitter. -db From a commentary for the First Amendment Center, April 17, 2012, by Ken Paulson.

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