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When Amendments Collide
Ken Tingley is editor of The Post-Star in Glens Falls, N.Y., and can be reached via e-mail at tingley@poststar.com.
THE FIRST AMENDMENT HAS BEEN getting its butt kicked lately by the Second Amendment. It’s a development the Founding Fathers could not have predicted, that two rights they considered so fundamental to the original Bill of Rights would be at such odds in 21st century America. With the advent of computer-assisted reporting, Web sites with unlimited space and the ability to access databases of government information, newspapers have been able to find new and innovative ways to perform their role as a watchdog of government.
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Updated 07/02/2008
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Tangled Web
Editors meet to discuss how to hold ethics standards high in the face
Ceppos, dean of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, is a former fellow in media ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. EVERYONE KNOWS THE PITFALLS OF PUTTING the content of mainstream newspapers on the Internet: Reader-generated content doesn't always meet our standards. Updating constantly for the Web can lead to errors. Carefully thought-out decisions on play in the print product may fly into the ether on the Internet.
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Updated 06/30/2008
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The future is here
Newspaper large and small are moving online. Here's how.
Roger Simmons is Associate Managing Editor/Online for The Orlando Sentinel.
He can be reached at RSimmons@orlandosentinel.com
IF YOU WANT A GLIMPSE of the online future of America's newspapers, just look around.
Direct your attention to Shelby, N.C. It's home to the "Star Car" - a four-wheeled, Internet-ready mobile newsroom and the online pride of Freedom Communication's Shelby Star.
Or look over at Long Island, N.Y. That's where folks are pointing their Web browsers to catch Pulitzer Prize winner Walt Handelsman's exceedingly popular animated cartoons for Tribune Co.'s Newsday.
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Updated 05/29/2008
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