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Google circumvents Germany’s pay-for-content rule by making news orgs opt in
LSR was passed to help media creators get paid when their work is used in search, but it’s not working out that way
By Alison Langley Jul 12, 2013 at 06:55 AM
Last spring, Google unsuccessfully tried to prevent a German copyright law that would require news aggregators to pay for the... More
HuffPost Germany slated for autumn
It’s a licensing partnership between the Huffington Post and a German media company
By Alison Langley Jul 3, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Times are hard for Germany's newspapers. Last year, they laid off a record number of journalists, and this year, many... More
EBU moves from assistance to defiance
A key player in the saga of Greece’s public broadcaster usually sticks to support rather than activism. Not this time
By Alison Langley Jun 27, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Tuesday night, many devoted Greek soccer fans were glued to their computers instead of slouching in front of the TV... More
Greek judge rules ERT should remain on air
But it hasn’t happened yet
By Alison Langley Jun 18, 2013 at 11:00 AM
A Greek court ruled Monday that the country's public broadcasting network, known as ERT, should remain on air until it... More
Consensus was that ERT needed reforming
“Of course there is corruption at ERT, but that is the fault of the politicians, not the journalists”
By Alison Langley Jun 14, 2013 at 06:50 AM
While journalists and advocates continue expressing outrage over the way Greek public broadcaster ERT was closed--it went dark with little... More
Greece closes its public broadcaster
ERT employees are refusing to leave the station and are broadcasting online
By Alison Langley Jun 12, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Journalists and civil society groups across Europe expressed outrage over the Greek government's abrupt closure of its public broadcasting system... More
UK considers stepping up Internet blocking
Home secretary Theresa May wants to prevent more “radicalization”
By Alison Langley Jun 3, 2013 at 04:27 PM
Should governments block websites that spread hardline ideology but don't explicitly advocate violence--like the ones likely read by the Tsarnaev... More
Libel convictions face resurgence in Italy
For the second time in the past couple years, Italian journalists have faced jail time for defamation
By Alison Langley May 29, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Three Italian journalists were sentenced to prison terms Friday in Milan for libeling a prosecutor. Andrea Marcenaro and Riccardo Arena... More
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
Woman’s work - The twisted reality of an Italian freelancer in Syria
Sourcing Trayvon Martin ‘photos’ from stormfront - Not a good idea, Business Insider
Elizabeth Warren, the antidote to CNBC - The senator schools the talking heads on bank regulation
Art Laffer + PR blitz = press failure - The media types up the retail lobby’s propaganda
Reuters’s global warming about-face - A survey shows the newswire ran 50 percent fewer stories on climate change after hiring a “skeptic”
Barack Obama: ‘those old times aren’t coming back’
“It used to be there were local newspapers everywhere. If you wanted to be a journalist, you could really make a good living working for your hometown paper”
The Guardian’s editor opens up on Reddit
Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, answered questions in an Ask Me Anything
The (almost) lost speech of Justice Anthony Kennedy
How his insightful remarks about the Constitution inadvertently make the case for a Supreme Court “media pool”
Fox News sues TVEyes for copyright infringement
Says subscription service sells access to its content without permission nor compensation
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
