Cloud Control
What MIT really thought of Aaron Swartz
The school leadership’s patience for hacker culture only went so far
By Sarah Laskow Jul 31, 2013 at 06:50 AM
On Tuesday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a report, produced by an internal "Review Panel," on the school's actions... More
WaPo makes a Switch
The paper’s newest blog will cover tech policy, the Wonkblog way
By Sarah Laskow Jul 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Washington Post announced on Monday the launch of a new tech policy blog, The Switch, that will cover "NSA... More
Creating Internet accountability
Author Rebecca MacKinnon’s new project aims to rank Internet giants on human rights
By Sarah Laskow Jul 23, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Rebecca MacKinnon is the sort of person who, after Edward Snowden leaked details of the government's digital surveillance program, could... More
A new film shows how much we knew, pre-Snowden, about Internet surveillance
Snowden’s disclosures “didn’t feel much like revelations,” says the director
By Sarah Laskow Jul 15, 2013 at 02:00 PM
There was a moment in Terms and Conditions May Apply, a new documentary about the dangers of using the Internet,... More
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
Copyright for copy writers
“Work-for-hire” contracts in a digital age
By Sarah Laskow Jul 10, 2013 at 10:10 AM
As a freelance writer, I've signed some contracts that consist of a couple simple paragraphs, and others that had tangles... More
A proposal to reform first sale rights
In a digital age, reselling media can be cast as illegal duplication
By Sarah Laskow Jul 2, 2013 at 06:55 AM
In its current iteration, copyright law gives us content consumers a right that we've internalized so thoroughly that most people... More
Reporting, or illegal hacking
Scripps reporters are accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
By Sarah Laskow Jun 13, 2013 at 06:50 AM
The team at Scripps Howard News Service didn't use any tools that aren't used in newsrooms across the country in... More
Lessons for journos in the NSA revelations
Anyone wishing to keep communications private will need to take additional steps to protect them
By Susan McGregor Jun 7, 2013 at 03:35 PM
In the second such revelation in less than a month, on Wednesday the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald released a copy of... More
Fair game
A new set of principles aims to help journalists improve their understanding of fair use
By Sarah Laskow Jun 7, 2013 at 10:00 AM
News breaks. A crime, an accident, a natural disaster. The newsroom starts gathering information, and among the sources reporters and... 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
What the government isn’t telling us
The Declassification Engine is a new project using statistical and machine learning to help reveal secrets
By Sarah Laskow May 31, 2013 at 06:50 AM
You probably haven't heard of "Operation Boulder," a Nixon-era program that scrutinized the activities of Arab Americans and profiled visa... More
Copyright 101.2
How CopyrightX managed to convince hundreds of online students to stick with a course on copyright law
By Sarah Laskow May 21, 2013 at 02:56 PM
CopyrightX, an online course run out of Harvard this spring as part of the EdX program, was unusual in a... More
Anything but dull
The House kicks off its review of copyright by finding out how limited agreement about the law is
By Sarah Laskow May 17, 2013 at 04:09 PM
Rep. Howard Coble knows the reputation of intellectual property law--that it is dull and boring. But at a Congressional hearing... More
AP phone records seizure reveals telecom’s risks for journalists
What is constitutionally protected, and what isn’t
By Susan McGregor May 15, 2013 at 04:20 PM
Many journalists may be shocked by Monday's revelation that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) used a subpoena to obtain... 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.
