Comments on: 4 reasons why linking is good journalism; 2 reasons why linking is good business

By: Advice for editors: Lead and stimulate discussions of ethics | The Buttry Diary

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:07:28 +0000

[…] significant way that I think technology has changed ethics is that linking has changed how we can and should attribute. I recommend reading my post on a show-your-work […]

By: Plagiarism and Fabrication Summit: Journalists need to use links to show our work | The Buttry Diary

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:22:49 +0000

[...] culture inhibited its adoption in the culture of journalism. In discussions among journalists, linking is dismissed by some as a courtesy, not an essential ethical practice. Adding links takes time and journalists are busy, so links get [...]

By: How do your daily budgets reflect multi-platform planning needs? | The Buttry Diary

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:03:36 +0000

[...] Links. Does the story have links to digital sources of information used in the reporting? Does it have links to earlier stories you have written on this topic or issue? Does it link to competing media or distant media who have reported some of this information already? [...]

By: Tackling the Manti Te'o lesson in a new digital world - Ted Nguyen USA on PR, social media and other moving solutions

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 05:47:41 +0000

[...] secondary (even tertiary) is one way of validating your information for the reader, but also an excellent bulwark against reporters picking up baseless or second-hand information without attribution. I often [...]

By: Manti Te’o Hoax Reminds Journalists to Verify Facts | dsipocz

Manti Te’o Hoax Reminds Journalists to Verify Facts | dsipocz — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:31:30 +0000

[...] Buttry wrote about why linking to other journalists stories is important last February. Linking to other stories [...]

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» The Manti Te’o Lesson: We Are All Catfish - Dynam Host ICT Solution — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:46:00 +0000

By: If your mother says she loves you, check it out… | Living in a Media World

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:23:12 +0000

[...] Digital journalism guru Steve Buttry has a great blog post up today on how journalists could have avoided falling for this story through using an accuracy checklist and by linking back to original sources. [...]

By: Linking and checklists could have prevented journalists from Manti Te’O ‘girlfriend’ hoax embarrassment « The Buttry Diary

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:18:02 +0000

[...] year I blogged about four reasons linking is good journalism. Make it [...]

By: Reviewing 2012, my busiest blogging year « The Buttry Diary

Reviewing 2012, my busiest blogging year « The Buttry Diary — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:43:41 +0000

[...] 1,000 views: copy editing (a top-10 post that drew a response from John McIntyre), gatekeeping, linking and beatblogging. In the same vein, Tim McGuire’s post about what he believes about [...]

By: #PoynterEthics discussion: Links about updating journalists’ guiding principles « The Buttry Diary

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:05:49 +0000

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