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The Best Practices For A Professional News Package, Joshua Eure Nov 2014

The Best Practices For A Professional News Package, Joshua Eure

Joshua Eure

Creating an excellent and impactful news package is a skill set that develops over time. Seasoned reporters typically learn the hard way how to best prep and plan for their features. However, taking advantage of a few tried and true tips can make even the cub reporter look like a pro.


Real-Time Online Reporting: Best Practices For Live Blogging, Neil Thurman Jan 2014

Real-Time Online Reporting: Best Practices For Live Blogging, Neil Thurman

Neil Thurman

Contemporary live online reporting makes the most of converging technological platforms and includes not just text but a range of content including still and moving images and audio. Social media platforms are an important source of content, which is often embedded directly. The resulting news artefact is referred to using a variety of names, including “news streams’, “live updating news pages”, and “live blogs”. This last term has been adopted for the purposes of this chapter. Live blogs are becoming increasingly common, with, for example, the Guardian’s website publishing close to 150 per month. They are also a relatively popular …


The Media And Armed Conflict, Philip Hammond Jan 2014

The Media And Armed Conflict, Philip Hammond

Philip Hammond

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Justice Stewart Meets The Press, Keith Bybee Jan 2014

Justice Stewart Meets The Press, Keith Bybee

Keith J. Bybee

Among the Supreme Court Justices who have articulated distinctive views of free expression, Justice Potter Stewart alone placed particular emphasis on the First Amendment's protection of a free press. Drawing upon the lessons of history, the plain language of the Constitution, the political events of his day, and his own personal experience, Stewart argued that the organized news media should be considered an essential part of the checks-and-balances competition between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government. Stewart’s emphasis on the special structural function of the established press placed him at odds with most of his colleagues …