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In this future, both professional and amateur journalists will need to engage in more than just journalism, however. They must engage in new kinds of “news work” to serve their audiences. News work? Fact entrepreneurs? Credit goes to Columbia University doctoral student Chris Anderson for these new terms. They help us understand that journalism in the future must involve more than just gathering, validating and writing news stories. “News work” also requires such things sharing information, facilitating conversations, crowdsourcing, smart curation and aggregation, data mining and data visualizations, commissioning news games, gathering lists and resources and shouting out your good work to others.

via J-Lab | Entrepreneurship and the Future of News | Speeches.

Measures in the IMMI include legal protection for sources and whistleblowers and the protection of communications between sources and journalists.

'Transparent nation'

The proposals also include steps to end so-called “libel tourism”, the practice of pursuing libel actions in the most favourable legal jurisdiction irrespective of where the parties are based.

But legal threats are faced not just by journalists, but by publishers, internet hosts and other “intermediaries”, Wikileaks said. As a result, the proposals include plans to clarify the protection for “mere conduits”.

via BBC News – Wikileaks and Iceland MPs propose ‘journalism haven’.

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The EPA released a report on data from 2002 that listed the areas of the country where cancer rates were the highest because of toxic air. I did expect LA, but not Madison County, IL. This story by  Kim McGuire of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH presents a very balanced view of the problem, the probable causes, and includes the voices of environmentalists and representatives from U.S. Steel, as its coke plant seemed to be the big offender.

“What contributed to the modeled results, they believe, were an industrial source, the coke ovens at U.S. Steel,” said Jim Ross, director of the IEPA’s air pollution control bureau.

Ross said industrial sources account for about 25 percent of the air pollution factored into Madison County’s risk assessment, while cars and trucks account for about 35 percent. What’s known as background emissions make up about 45 percent, he said.

He also said the data from the EPA’s assessment were from 2002 and that the coke ovens have been idle since earlier this year.

via EPA finds air pollution in Granite City poses high cancer risk – STLtoday.com.

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Moral philosophers differentiate intrinsic and instrumental value. Intrinsic value involves things that are good in and of themselves, such as beauty, truth, and harmony. Instrumental value comes from things that facilitate action and achievement, including awareness, belonging, and understanding. Journalism produces only instrumental value. It is important not in itself, but because it enlightens the public, supports social interaction, and facilitates democracy.

Economic value is rooted in worth and exchange. It is created when finished products and services have more value – as determined by consumers – than the sum of the value of their components.

via Why journalists deserve low pay | csmonitor.com.