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Google’s privacy policy scrutinized in Europe
A six-country investigation could have worldwide ramifications
By Alison Langley Apr 17, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Six European countries are stepping up the heat on Google to comply with the continent's strict privacy policies, a year... More
French antipiracy efforts unsuccessful
The French government started cracking down on illegal downloading, so users switched to illegal streaming
By Alison Langley Mar 27, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Hadopi--a wildly unpopular French antipiracy agency charged with seeking out illegal downloaders for prosecution--may be reorganized, assigned with new duties,... More
LSR to become German law
Search engines and news aggregators will have to pay to use others’ original content
By Alison Langley Mar 25, 2013 at 02:50 PM
The Leistungsschutzrecht, a controversial German proposal that would force for-profit companies to pay for using short snippets of news content,... More
German copyright bill passes parliament
Leistungsschutzrecht calls for charging aggregators that repost publishers’ content
By Alison Langley Mar 1, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Germany's national parliament approved a controversial bill on Friday that would require news aggregators, such as Google, to pay for... More
Enforcing copyrights in Europe
In the absence of laws, private companies are doing the job
By Alison Langley Feb 18, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In January, on the anniversary of the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act, an Internet activist group called Fight... More
In Azerbaijan, a blogger refuses to be silenced
Emin Milli says the Internet is a lifeline for journalists living under oppressive regimes
By Alison Langley Feb 15, 2013 at 02:50 PM
A woman asked Emin Milli and Jérémie Zimmermann if she could take a photo of the two bloggers as they... More
German bill would charge for aggregation
The potential law would provide content creators with a portion of the profits search engines make by aggregating them
By Alison Langley Jan 16, 2013 at 12:38 PM
News aggregators and search engines in Germany will be required to pay publishers a fee for using their content—even snippets,... More
Europe’s newspapers are dying too
The implosion of the newspaper industry, long a dreaded topic in the US, has finally hit the continent
By Alison Langley Dec 12, 2012 at 10:38 AM
The staff of Financial Times Deutschland appeared on the back page of the newspaper on Friday, in a deep bow.... More
‘See you on the other side’ - Meet Jessica Lum, a terminally ill 25-year-old who chose to spend what little time she had practicing journalism
#Realtalk: This is the best moment to be in journalism - The old stuff isn’t coming back, but that’s okay
Streams of consciousness - Millennials expect a steady diet of quick-hit, social-media-mediated bits and bytes. What does that mean for journalism?
Sticking with the truth - How ‘balanced’ coverage helped sustain the bogus claim that childhood vaccines can cause autism
An ink-stained stretch - Can Aaron Kushner save the Orange County Register—and the newspaper industry?
What to do if you find a baby bird
Expert advice
Inside Google’s secret lab
We might deplore the practice, but posting pictures of our food online is a way to bring everyone to the table
How the ‘World’s 50 Best’ list changed the way elite restaurants do business
“Every time the restaurant switched up its format, it got plenty of accompanying media coverage that let judges know they needed to return to see what was going on”
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
Uptown Messenger – Hyperlocal news for a neighborhood in New Orleans
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
