To help Online News Association members find free or reduced-fee legal help, the Online News Association is partnering with the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society on its new Online Media Legal Network (OMLN). Staffed by lawyers with extensive backgrounds in intellectual property and media law, OMLN provides [...]
Facebook launches “Fan Box” widget
Facebook has launched a new “Fan Box” widget as an extension of Facebook Pages. Companies with Facebook Pages can add the widget to their own home pages and it easily allows any visitor to become a fan with just one click. Here is the CyberJournalist.net Fan Box widget, which you can also now find in [...]
What can journalism learn from I Can Has Cheezburger?
Scott Porad, who is part of the team behind I Can Has Cheezburger? and the Cheezburger Network, says journalism can learn from I Can Has Cheezburger? “There are probably many lessons, but one that stands out to me is a fundamental shift in the concept of reporting from ‘sourcing’ toward ‘filtering,’” he says.
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