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- July 21, 2010 Enroll Now
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Course Overview
- Title:
- Unpublishing Online Content: Fairness and Credibility Guidelines
- Type:
- Webinar
- Cost:
- $27.95
- Originally Broadcast On:
- July 21, 2010
- Time Estimate:
- One hour for the main presentation and questions. Sometimes presenters stay longer to answer additional questions from participants.
This Webinar is $9.95 for members of APME and CNA. Watch your member e-mail to get details about the discount. APME members also may contact Sally Jacobsen at: sjacobsen@ap.org. To contact the Canadian Newspaper Association about the discount, send e-mail to: info@cna-acj.ca.
About Webinars
In this virtual classroom, participants can join in a seminar led by Poynter faculty and visiting faculty. This screencast includes live audio and a slideshow presentation in which participants can post questions and respond to poll questions posed by the host.
News published online, seemingly, never dies. Life in the age of Google and other search engines means that just about everything published by news organizations is now a few clicks away. Technically it's easy to “unpublish” digital content in a way that was never possible in print. But should you?
Learn how to manage requests to remove past online content while considering accuracy, fairness and credibility with your readers and other audiences.
What Will I Learn:
- How to identify the issue of "unpublishing"
- Who decides if and when to make news disappear from the Internet
- What’s fair to your audiences and to those you report on
- Questions your news organization should ask before you respond to such requests
Who Should Take this Course:
Editors, producers and other newsroom leaders who handle requests from the public to remove or alter past online content.
This Webinar is part of the Online Journalism Credibility Series, developed in partnership with Associated Press Managing Editors (APME). The Webinars are the outcomes of projects by six newsrooms as part of APME’s Online Credibility Project and funded by grants from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and APME Foundation. The series is also developed with the support of the Canadian Newspaper Association (CNA).
Course Instructor:
Kathy English
Kathy English is public editor at the Toronto Star. She began her journalism career as a “copy girl” at the Brantford Expositor in 1976. She has since reported and edited for six Canadian daily newspapers including the Star and the Globe and Mail. She taught newspaper journalism at Ryerson School of Journalism for 10 years. In her Ryerson sabbatical year, she completed a Master’s degree in Canadian history, writing a thesis on 20th century newspaper ownership trends and the demise of family ownership in Canadian newspapers.
Training Partners:
Associated Press Managing Editors
APME is an association of editors on the forefront in setting ethical and journalistic standards for newspapers and in the battle for freedom of information and the First Amendment.
Canadian Newspaper Association
The Canadian Newspaper Association is a non-profit organization, representing Canadian daily newspapers (English and French) with circulations ranging from 1,500 to almost 500,000 per day.
Technical Requirements:
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- PC users use Internet Explorer or Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox
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- You set your monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 or higher
- You use a high-speed connection
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