The Legal Risk Blog, of the Knight Citizen News Network, offers legal opinions from way-qualified attorneys on pubmedia issues. KCNN: Post a Question or read those already answered, such as:
Question: If I am considering using information from someone’s Facebook profile in my next article or blog post, are there any legal landmines that I need to avoid?
and:
Question: What is a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice and what should a blogger or Web site producer do if he/she receives one?
Another KCNN offering: Funding Database:
From 2005 to today, J-Lab has tracked $135,859,660 million in grants awarded to at least 128 news projects [325 grants from 207 foundations]. In the searchable database you can find these grants by the name of the foundation that issued funding, by the name of the news project that received grant support, or by state.
This database includes funding only for news and information projects. It does not include funding for public broadcasting programs, for the underwriting of documentaries, for journalism training or student news services.
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