Journalism

I would like to start a website that condenses information reported from multilpe journalistic sources and/or reporters (ie: websites, newspapers, magazines) and put the information on one single website. Can this be done without any repurcussions? Any copyright or trademark issues?

You have to cite the sources. I work for a newspaper whose online content was being stolen by another local news site. We had our attorney call them and tell them to stop. Now, they rewrite our ledes and put in a link to our stories. We don’t mind that, because it directs traffic to our site.

Dean Wright, Reuters Global Editor for Ethics, Innovation and News Standards, talks about how to earn the trust of your audience and stick to the basic principles of honesty, fairness and pursuit of the truth.

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My homework assignments request a well written and a poorly written journalistic article that has to be printed out?

Very poorly written article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080907/ap_on_re_as/afghan_us_civilian_deaths

If you read the article carefully, you’ll see that this article only says the U.S. military contests the number of dead civilians in Afghanisan from a U.S. bombing raid. Yet, the journalist who wrote this makes it seem like the evidence of the dead obtained by the United Nations is not valid, which is not true. There’s simply a lot of distraction in this article with very little information.