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On The Media: This Week

Protests for press freedom in China, mapping gun-owners in New York, and an interview with 56 Up director Michael Apted.
On the Media Live in the Greene Space!

Join Brooke on January 29th for a live conversation about the future of journalism with NPR's Andy Carvin, "the man who tweets revolutions."
From the Archives

Bob talks to Ryan Singel about the ease with which authorities can read your emails.
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REPORTING ON THE CONNECTICUT SCHOOL SHOOTING

OTM Looks at Reporting On The Connecticut School Shooting.

January 11, 2013

Privacy and Gun Control
Newspaper Publishes a Map Showing Where Gun Owners Live
Protests for Press Freedom in China
Censorship in the Largest Democracy in the World
Al Jazeera and the Qatari Government's Editorial Influence
Corrections
The "Up Series" at 56

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Edit Bucket

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“The power that you wield as a journalist is attention. You bring attention to a thing, and that attention has good and bad consequences. And decisions that you make are often about what happens when attention is brought to this thing.”

– Matt Waite, developer for the Tampa Bay Times, on the balancing act at the Journal News which recently published the names and addresses of handgun permit holders in a few New York counties. Waite helped create a mugshot website for the Tampa Bay Times, but the paper went to lengths to avoid mugshots appearing as a first hit when someone’s name is searched, and creating URLs that expire every 15 mintues.