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at UC Berkeley's Credibility in New Media conference in 1998, from
left: Kathleen deLaski of America Online, Dan Gillmor of the San Jose
Mercury News, J.D. Lasica of AJR and Microsoft Sidewalk, moderator
Paul Grabowicz and Phil Lemmons, editor of PC World Online. See list
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Media Center
Following is a selective list of online journalists, publications, resources and issues relating to Web ethics, privacy and related topics. The list is constantly evolving, so please send
your suggestions for inclusion. In addition, see this related page of research and reference tools for people finders, e-mail trackers, experts, search engines and other helpful links.
Columnists worth catching
• Jim Romenesko's Media News
• Dan Gillmor San Jose Mercury News
• Dan Gillmor's eJournal
• Howard Kurtz The Washington Post and his daily roundup
• Michael Wolff New Yorker
• Lisa Napoli MSNBC
• Steve Outing E&P: Stop the Presses
• Steve Outing's E-Media Tidbits
• David Plotnikoff San Jose Mercury News
• Dan Fost SF Chronicle
• Stewart Alsop Fortune
• Leslie Walker The Washington Post
• Gary Kamiya Salon
• Scott Rosenberg Salon
• Andrew Leonard Salon
• Joe Conason Salon
• Thomas Friedman New York Times
• David Shaw Los Angeles Times
• Today's Papers Slate
• Michael Kinsley Slate
• Jack Shafer Slate
• Andrew Sullivan's Home Page
• Rich Lowry The National Review
• James Taranto OpinionJournal, Best of the Web Today
• Robert Scheer (archive at Working For Change
• Walter Mossberg Wall Street Journal
• Jim Coates Chicago Tribune (requires registration)
• Peter Lewis Fortune
• Declan McCullagh News.com
• Dave Winer's Scripting News
• Jon Carroll SF Chronicle
• Dave Barry Miami Herald
• CNET News.com's technology columnists
• New York Times Op-Ed Page
• Washington Post Op-Ed Page
Others you think are indispensable? Let me know!
General news coverage
Culture, lifestyle, issues, politics
• Salon, the groundbreaking,
rule-breaking online news magazine. (See my profile of Salon.)
• Slate, the smart, literate magazine that's able to do much with a staff only a fraction of Salon's size.
• OpinionJournal, from the folks at the Wall Street Journal.
• The Atlantic Monthly's Digital Culture.
• The Nation, still one of the most thoughtful progressive journals around.
• The New Republic posts some thoughtful essays on its site.
• TomPaine.com, a progressive site funded by the non-profit Florence Fund that publishes commentaries and stories on subjects overlooked by the mainstream media.
• AlterNet.org, a non-profit portal for articles with a leftist or alternative tilt.
• Workingforchange.com, a slick, left-leaning news and links site launched in spring of 2000, run by a shoe-string staff and owned by the liberal long-distance telephone company Working Assets.
Articles about the online news landscape
• The Online Journalism Review,
reported by media professionals and edited by students
at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern
California. I'm a regular columnist.
• NewsLink, a consistently reliable list of
thousands of online newspapers, magazines and other publications. It no longer hosts the Web site of The American Journalism Review, the monthly journal
of news and broadcast professionals. Many of my columns have appeared in AJR's Digital Feed, which will soon return online.
• Florida's Poynter Institute, the journalism profession's world-class think tank.
• Weblogs and the News, a page of resources I put together that explores some of the emerging forms of journalism online, including weblogs, collaborative news and community journalism.
• ABYZ News Links contains links to more than 17,200 newspapers and
other news sources from around the world. Its strongest suit is its listing of foreign news sites.
• Steve Outing's excellent mailing list for online news is available at his new home at the Poynter Institute. At last count, the online news list had 1,350 news professionals and other interested parties who
participate in discussions of issues relating to online news publications.
• The Newspaper Association of America
regularly offers good, original commentary and features about the online newspaper industry in its Digital Edge and Presstime: New Media sections.
• Editor & Publisher Online,
the bible of Old Media.
Privacy and free speech online
• The Electronic Privacy Information
Center: EPIC is at the forefront of protecting online rights.
Their e-mail newsletter is available
for free subscription.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the premier advocacy organization for Net denizens.
• Junkbusters: Terribly organized Web site. Good information and cause.
• The Global International Liberty Campaign, an umbrella group for organizations promoting online privacy and free speech.
• Politechbot, a
timely, moderated mailing list of politics, encryption and technology issues
moderated by Declan McCullagh, a
reporter for Wired News.
• Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility, a clearinghouse for a host of issues confronting the online community.
• American Civil Liberties Union, and its "Fahrenheit 451.2: Is Cyberspace Burning?"
• The National Freedom of
Information Coalition, a nationwide group supporting the First Amendment and the public's right to know.
Web ethics
• The well-done Web site of the Graduate
School of Journalism at UC Berkeley offers pointers to various articles
on the subject.
• Good compendium of organizations, articles and white papers devoted to ethics on the Web, compiled by the CIO Web Business magazine.
• An updated page of journalism ethics links compiled by San Francisco State University.
• Yahoo's links to media ethics and accountability.
• The Poynter Institute and its insightful 1997 Journalism
Values and Ethics in New Media Conference.
• Ethics on the Web: links compiled by the School of Communications at California State University, Fullerton.
• The American Society of Magazine Editors calls for full disclosure
in its comprehensive guidelines
for new media
• Also see my writings on the subject.
Tech news publications
• Washtech.com, the wonderful (and nicely designed) daily technology news section of the Washington Post.
• The New York Times' only-on-the-Web technology
coverage.
• Rising Tide Studio's Silicon Alley Daily and Digital Coast Daily.
• The San Jose Mercury News' smart and sassy Good
Morning Silicon Valley.
• Wired News, the pioneering
news organization in San Francisco's Multimedia Gulch.
• CNET Central's News.com, for good, balanced tech coverage.
• Yahoo!
News and its wide-ranging Full Coverage roundups.
• ZD Net, the tech news site now owned by CNET.
Other news sources
• National Public Radio,
including All Things Considered,
Morning Edition and Fresh Air.
• ABC's Nightline
• PBS' Online NewsHour and its Media Watch section
• Online newspapers around the globe
• Court TV on the Web
• WE-Sources, a database of experts on a wide array of subjects of direct concern to women.
Journalism resources
• The Journalist's Toolbox, a first-rate resource containing hundreds of research links organized by beats and topics such as federal government, business, tech business, sports, crime/legal, science/environment, medical/health, phone directories, general research, history and more. Created by former journalist Mike Reilley.
• I Want Media, a one-man operation from journalist Patrick Phillips, offers a terrific roundup of new media publications, organizations, companies, pointers to new media job sites, and daily news roundups by industry.
• CyberJournalist.net, a rich resource site for online writers and editors. The site offers tips on online writing and editing, plus news and
commentary on online journalism. It's run by Jonathan Dube, the technology editor of MSNBC.com.
• CyberJournalist SuperSearch, a nice, compact page with keyword searches to resources of interest to online journalists.
• The Online News Association, launched by working journalists at major news organizations. They sponsor the Online Journalism Awards in conjunction with Columbia University.
• Journalism Access, a site containing pointers to online news organizations and resources, compiled by Mindy McAdams, Knight Chair Professor at the University of Florida.
• Insert Text Here, a good guide to journalism jobs, news, resources and more, run by journalist Michelle Nicolosi.
• Journalist Express, an all-in-one resource page for busy professionals.
• The National Institute
for Computer-Assisted Reporting.
• Reporter.org, a great Web
resource for journalists and the public. It points to a number of specialized
journalism organizations and provides a terrific roundup of major
international news sources, tech news publishers, sports, and political
and financial news organizations.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors
schools journalists in the skills of in-depth reporting. It sponsors the
valuable program The National Institute
for Computer-Assisted Reporting.
• The Committee of Concerned Journalists, a group of reporters, editors, producers, publishers, owners and academics worried about the future of the profession, sponsors forums and is spearheading an ambitious Project for Excellence in Journalism, an initiative by journalists to clarify and raise the standards of American journalism.
• The Freedom Forum and
its Media Studies
Center offer valuable assistance to reporters and the public.
• The Radio-Television News Directors Association, focusing on broadcast news issues.
• The Online Journalist, a clearinghouse of links to Web sites that publish online journalism, including small and obscure zines; maintained by writer/consultant Doug Millison.
• The Society of Professional Journalists
• The National Press Club
• Freelance writer Amy Gahran's Contentious is a good grassroots resource for online content, writing and publishing. It includes links to other content-related Web sites, zines and articles.
• The Trade Show News Network publishes a detailed list of media-related trade shows.
New media conferences
J.D. Lasica has been a speaker, panelist or workshop presenter at the following conferences:
• South By Southwest (SXSW): Will appear on the panel "Old Journalism vs. New Journalism" during the annual gathering of creative minds at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, March 7-11, 2003.
• PopTech: Organized and wrote all entries on the PopTech Weblog, including interviews with Jaron Lanier and Howard Rheingold. PopTech is the annual gathering of Internet heavy hitters in Camden, Maine. October 2002.
• O'Reilly: Panelist on the topic of Apple and the long-term outlook for copy protection in its digital hub suite at the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference held Oct. 1, 2002, in Santa Clara, Calif. Other panelists were Tim O'Reilly, Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Cory Doctorow of EFF, and an executive of El Gato Software.
• UC Berkeley: Panelist on the topic of Weblogs, journalism and society at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism on Sept. 17, 2002. Other panelists were Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Scott Rosenberg of Salon, and veteran webloggers Rebecca Blood and Meg Hourihan.
• IRE: Moderator of panel on Converging Media at the annual convention of Investigative Reporters & Editors, May 30, 2002 in San Francisco. Panelists were Roland De Wolk, producer for KTVU Channel 2 News Special Reports and senior lecturer at San Francisco State's J-School, and multimedia journalist Jane Ellen Stevens.
• USC: Online journalism conference, March 14-15, 2002 in Los Angeles. Moderator of the panel "The Economics of Online Publishing" with Robert S. Cauthorn, vice president, digital media, San Francisco Chronicle; Neil Chase, managing editor, CBS MarketWatch; Rusty Coats, director of New Media, MORI Research; and Martha L. Stone, consultant, Innovation International
Media Consulting. Hear a Webcast of the panel
• Online News Association: Organized and moderated the panel on "Journalism's New Life Forms," focusing on weblogs and alternative news sites, in Berkeley, Calif. Panelists included Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Rita Henley Jensen, editor in chief of Women's Enews, Rusty Foster, founder of Kuro5hin, and weblog pioneer Meg Hourihan. Here's a transcript of the session. October 2001
• USC: Online journalism conference, "A Medium in Motion," at the University of Southern California, Annenberg School in Los Angeles. Moderated the panel "The Impact of Technology on Journalism" with hacker Kevin Mitnick (just released from a five-year prison term), Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal, Steve Outing of E&P Interactive and Robert Lee Hotz of the Los Angeles Times. March 2000
• UC Berkeley: New media conference, "The State of Online Journalism," University of California, Berkeley. Member of the panel "Reestablishing Credibility" with Denise Caruso of the New York Times, Jai Singh of CNET News.com, Thomas Gewecke of PC World Online and David Weir of Salon magazine. March 1999
• Calgary: Canadian Association of Journalists
National Writers' Symposium, Calgary, Alberta. Gave two 90-minute workshops on online journalism and writing for the Web. November 1998
• Los Angeles: The Society of Professional Journalists annual convention, Los Angeles. One of three participants on the panel "Seeking Truth Online." October 1998
• UC Berkeley: New media conference. Member of the panel Credibility and the New Media with Kathleen deLaski of America Online, Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News, Phil Lemmons, editor of PC World Online, and others. April 1998
• Bahamas: Society of American Travel Writers' Editors Council, aboard a cruise ship from Miami to the Bahamas. Gave the lead presentation with a PowerPoint demo on strategies for travel coverage on the Web. April 1997
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