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Justin EllisAugust 20, 2015

ProPublica expands news apps and networked reporting with new funding from Knight Foundation

With $2.2 million in new funding from Knight, ProPublica will increase its Get Involved network, measure the success of news apps, and hold trainings for journalists.

Getty Images blows the web’s mind by setting 35 million photos free (with conditions, of course)

With lots of people on the web are using its images without credit or payment, Getty is betting that allowing broader free use can help the bottom line more than it harms it. But watch out: Ads may be on the way. Joshua Benton

Instagram embeds are here, but not quite perfect for publishers

ProPublica: Why we use Creative Commons licenses on our stories

As the pro-sharing license celebrates its 10th birthday, the nonprofit outlet says encouraging republication has meant more than 4 million extra pageviews on its stories so far this year. Richard Tofel and Scott Klein

Nikki Usher and Seth C. LewisSeptember 17, 2012

Four reasons why an open-source newsroom is harder than it looks: Lessons from Al Jazeera

Open-source may be hip, but an awful lot of cultural baggage can get in the way of newsrooms adopting it.

Dan KennedySeptember 11, 2012

How a 19-year-old student became one of the hottest political photographers in the country

Gage Skidmore is probably behind some of the photos of Republican politicians you’ve seen online. He shoots for credit, not for money.

A new version of Creative Commons license is in draft form

“Consumers of Creative Commons licenses do not understand them”: A little more context to Wired’s use of CC

A few months back, a photographer said Wired was misusing Creative Commons-licensed images on its (for-profit) site. Joshua Benton

Joshua BentonNovember 8, 2011

Wired releases images via Creative Commons, but reopens a debate on what “noncommercial” means

The complexities of sharing: Does “noncommercial” mean not-for-profit? The absence of ads? Or simply that you’re not selling the work someone else is giving away?

March 23, 2011

Craig Newmark: CraigConnects for journalism

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