Men's Health Editor Plagiarizes His Own Authors reports Maureen O'Connor in Gawker. Men's Health editor Dave Zinczenko has been stripping other writers' bylines from old Men's Health articles and recycling them in his "Eat This, Not That" column for Yahoo! Health. Read More
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'Content Farms' affect Google's ranking as a search engine
January 30, 2011
"Google's reputation for uncanny accuracy has been dulled by 'content farm' sites that game its search system to boost the visibility of pages many readers say they don't want," writes Rob Pegoraro, in How 'content farms' beat Google, and what search engines should do about it Read More
Free online course in science journalism
January 21, 2011
First time ever: Free Online Course in Science Journalism, created by the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) in close cooperation with the Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net), for use by professional journalists, journalism students and teachers worldwide. The first eight lessons:
1) Planning and structuring your work (created by Jan Lublinkski) Read More
1) Planning and structuring your work (created by Jan Lublinkski) Read More
Righthaven, the "copyright troll"
January 16, 2011
Righthaven, a Las Vegas firm, is making a business of suing nonprofits and individuals who reprint whole newspaper articles and images on their websites without clearing permission (Righthaven: saving the newspaper industry, one lawsuit at a time). The people Righthaven sues are often the sources for the very stories they're suing about, Read More
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KickStarter: A new way to fund & follow creativity
January 12, 2011
For the 9th Annual Year in Ideas, the NY Times Magazine includes Kickstarter, describing it as a form of market research for artists (see entry for Subscription Artists) Read More