Comments on: What makes a nonprofit news org legit? Three other questions to separate journalism from advocacy http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/03/what-makes-a-nonprofit-news-org-legit-three-other-questions-to-separate-journalism-from-advocacy/ A collaborative effort to figure out the future of journalism. A project of Harvard University. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:39:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: zune accessories http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/03/what-makes-a-nonprofit-news-org-legit-three-other-questions-to-separate-journalism-from-advocacy/comment-page-1/#comment-284035 zune accessories Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:16:11 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=13697#comment-284035 <strong>34...</strong> […]Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?[…]... 34…

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]]> By: Sean R Harrison http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/03/what-makes-a-nonprofit-news-org-legit-three-other-questions-to-separate-journalism-from-advocacy/comment-page-1/#comment-117172 Sean R Harrison Wed, 26 May 2010 16:22:11 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=13697#comment-117172 This helps me a little in understanding the struggle I am facing with Laguna Seca Mazda Raceway and Infineon Raceway here in California, who will not take us serious and allow us media access to cover events. Even though we have been allowed to a few events and have submitted proper request with tear sheets and letters. What are a profit publication, we have come from online to now in print, making the investment to do so all on our own no help from anyone. My question is what does it take for a magazine to be consider legit? And what happened to freedom of the press? Being denied access to events once you have establish you are a serious magazine, who do we turn to? Cheers, Sean ODC Magazine This helps me a little in understanding the struggle I am facing with Laguna Seca Mazda Raceway and Infineon Raceway here in California, who will not take us serious and allow us media access to cover events. Even though we have been allowed to a few events and have submitted proper request with tear sheets and letters.

What are a profit publication, we have come from online to now in print, making the investment to do so all on our own no help from anyone.

My question is what does it take for a magazine to be consider legit? And what happened to freedom of the press? Being denied access to events once you have establish you are a serious magazine, who do we turn to?

Cheers,
Sean
ODC Magazine

]]> By: Walter Abbott http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/03/what-makes-a-nonprofit-news-org-legit-three-other-questions-to-separate-journalism-from-advocacy/comment-page-1/#comment-88558 Walter Abbott Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:49:29 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=13697#comment-88558 Or, said another way, a license to publish. Nobody except the reader gets to decide whether something published is "legitimate." Not you, not I, not Congress. I always periodically re-read this to remind myself of how it's done today: Anyone With A Modem Can Report On The World Address Before the National Press Club by Matt Drudge, June 2, 1998 Every "journalism" school in the world should have that chiseled into the facades of their buildings. But likely that will never happen. Or, said another way, a license to publish. Nobody except the reader gets to decide whether something published is “legitimate.” Not you, not I, not Congress.

I always periodically re-read this to remind myself of how it’s done today:

Anyone With A Modem Can Report On The World
Address Before the National Press Club
by Matt Drudge, June 2, 1998

Every “journalism” school in the world should have that chiseled into the facades of their buildings. But likely that will never happen.

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