If you see a blog post titled “10 Iconic Journalists Every J-Student Should Study” and want to share it with your Twitter followers, Facebook friends, or old-fashioned e-mail contacts, please consider what you’re endorsing when you link to it.
More than 70 people have tweeted the link so far.
That’s fine. Some, most or maybe all of [...]
Posts Tagged as 'Ethic of the Link'
Nine Steps to Verified Link Journalism
January 5th, 2010 · 18 Comments
Is Linking an Antidote to Plagiarism in Journalism?
August 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Journalists are seeing red over yesterday’s Slate piece on rampant plagiarism. Writer Jody Rosen got a tip from a reader that it looked like a small alt weekly had lifted one of his stories. His research resulted in this fantastic piece: Dude, you stole my article.
As one who has had my hard-earned copy “lifted” by [...]
