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Articles tagged right to be forgotten (8)

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 1, 2024

10 years after Serial: Nieman Lab looks at crime news now

In our package: Digital news outlets reimagine the crime beat; TikTok creators balance ethics and money; public radio stations see more true crime in their future; AI might reshape court reporting.

Maggie Jones Patterson and Romayne Smith FullertonJuly 29, 2021

Tell-all crime reporting is a peculiarly American practice. Now U.S. news outlets are rethinking it

U.S. newsrooms are increasingly embracing a bit of the empathy toward wrongdoers shown by reporters in some European countries.

Joshua BentonJanuary 25, 2021

Is unpublishing old crime stories Orwellian or empathetic? The Boston Globe is offering past story subjects a “fresh start”

Should the worst moment of your life also be your top Google search result? Your “permanent record” is sometimes more about old news stories than court records, and newspapers are increasingly rethinking their responsibilities.

Europe’s “right to be forgotten” doesn’t apply worldwide, a European court thankfully ruled

Christine SchmidtSeptember 4, 2019

Unprepared for unpublishing? Here’s how some newsrooms are rethinking what lasts forever

Eighty percent of news outlets surveyed had established unpublishing policies, but almost half of those policies were not in writing and only two percent were shared beyond the newsroom.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 18, 2018

Fewer mugshots, less naming and shaming: How editors in Cleveland are trying to build a more compassionate newsroom

“I didn’t see how we could justify standing on tradition when it was causing that kind of suffering…It really comes down to: How long does somebody have to pay for a mistake?”

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 8, 2018

The Offshore Journalism Project would let newsrooms send a “distress signal” when their content is at risk of being lost forever

“When digital news outlets disappear, the holes in coverage show, and they can be huge.”

Susan E. McGregorNovember 10, 2014

Can mesh networks and offline wireless move from protest tools to news?

From the protests in Hong Kong to Occupy and Sandy in New York, a new generation of tools is allowing communities to connect without using the Internet. Can they have a use in news too?