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Better, less toxic, social media starts with us

The platforms are merely amplifiers. The blame lies with us.

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death knocks

Death knocks aren't the problem - it's the digital onslaught.

Dominic Ponsford takes up the digital doorstepping point, and misses the point: I would argue that when you are writing a story about someone’s death or serious injury it

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digital doorstepping

We need a conversation about the ethics of digital doorstepping

I first wrote about digital doorstepping a decade ago. And the problem has only got worse: I have dealt with 50+ journos online today. Two found my mobile number. This

WikiLeaks Task Force doxing concerns: is Twitter verification making you a target?

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WikiLeaks Task Force doxing concerns: is Twitter verification making you a target?

Remember when I was amused by Twitter deciding that I’m not a journalist or in the media? Well, now I’m profoundly glad. Why? Well, this little Tweet from

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Viral videos: financial reality trumps ethics?

What happens when you have a video go seriously viral? A media frenzy ensued and ultimately Kim’s video was seen by tens of millions of people around the world.

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Reddit for Journalists

Three speakers at news:rewired talking about use of Reddit in journalism, moderated by Mark Frankel, assistant editor, social news, BBC James Cook, Daily Dot There’s two main tasks: Finding new stories Sharing stories How do you get started? Sign up. That allows

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Don't trust over-worked decaf drinkers

If you’re in an office full of over-worked journalists, the coffee drinkers are the ones to trust: According to a recent study, caffeine helps you resist pressure to act unethically at work. Oh, alright then. It’s more complex than that. The research

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advertorials

The Mumsnet content racket

Mumsnet charges you to provide them with content… I’m sorry, Mumsnet charges writers and actors or their publishers and producers for the privilege of providing content for its website? I shouldn’t have been shocked. The logical next step after asking writers to

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BBC

Two screens, all horror

We live in a world where journalists hacked a murdered girl’s phone – and where the activities of a serial sexual predator like Jimmy Savile went unreported for decades. British journalism has a lot of questions to ask of itself.

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Journalists: Link To Win

People have, on occasion, described TechCrunch (and ex-TechCrunch) writers are “bratty” in their writing style. MG Siegler does a pretty good job of proving the point in his complaints last week about the lack of credit he got from the Wall Street Journal: Earlier

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How Wikipedia dealt with Johann Hari

[![Promotional photograph of Johann Hari](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/09/Johannhari.jpg?resize=203%2C153)](https://i0.wp.com/commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannhari.jpg)Image via [Wikipedia](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johannhari.jpg) Comprehensive

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Hari: Knave or Fool?

Greenslade argues fool: > I admit that, having written that I didn’t believe Hari guilty of passing off somebody else’s intellectual work as his own, it did give me pause for thought. > > But I concluded, in company with other sympathetic journalists – of left

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Media140: The Unethical Web

Warning: Liveblogging – error, omission and appalling grammar likely Claire Wardle Claire was an academic in Cardiff – deputy ethics officer – lots of conflict over journalist wanting to do illegal things in

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Hari-Kiri Reading Round-up

So, Mr Hari has admitted to his crimes, and is slinking away for retraining training in journalism. I’ve made no secret of that fact that I think his behaviour fell well below the standards we should expect of journalists, and that too many

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Five (random) thoughts about phone-hacking and ethical standards

Phillips, Hari, News of the World. Not been a great week or so for journalism, has it? Five thoughts, and then I’m stepping away from this for a while: You really don’t need 1000 words from me on this topic, because every