Entries Tagged as 'Metro State online media'
Rights of victims
Covering crime means two things: 1) Dead people and 2) grieving families. The National Victim Center endorses these guidelines for journalists: Advise victims that they can be interviewed “on the record’ or “off the record,” and that they don’t have to be interviewed at all. Avoid photographing crime scene details such as remains or removal [...]
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FERPA schmirpa
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) have made your job as a reporter more difficult. Concerns for privacy have gained momentum due to fears of terrorism and increasing instances of indentity theft. We’ll discuss in class several scenarios where ethics, victims’ rights and strict interpretation [...]
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Local government reporting
Knowing the rules, including how a meeting is run, who (really) runs the meetings, and what rights you have in reporting a meeting. These three sources are worth review: Roberts Rules of Order Colorado’s sunshine law Ottowa: Public servant vs. city staff definitions Colorado Revised Statutes Obviously, the Ottowa example is specific to that community. [...]
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Metro State: Wiki project description
For Metro State students Groups will research a topic related to the Auraria campus, or Metro State, and post the resulting article as a topic at wikipedia.org. The article needs to be 400-600 words, and must have two subtopic links of at least 300 words each. Your topic and subtopics should have 8-10 links each [...]
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Metro State – Groups
Group 1 – Jonathon, Marta, Kelsey, Matt Group 2 – Erin, Barbara, Josh, Cory
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Metro State: Verifying online sources
The debate over accuracy on/of the Internet can be summarized in one word: Wikipedia. Robert McHenry, a former editor of Encyclopedia Brittanica, describes the philosophy behind Wikipedia: “1. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or even familiarity with the topic, can submit an article and it will be published. 2. Anyone, irrespective of expertise in or [...]
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