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Online Journalism Review has a comprehensive examination of the issue of ethics in blogging. The piece by J.D. Lasica explores the Marqi pay-for-blogging debate, the efforts to establish a bloggers’ code of ethics, and the distinctions between bloggers (no code) and journalists (a clearly defined code as maintained by the Society for Professional Journalists).

Among the efforts to establish a code of…

We hear too often these days—certainly too often to keep reporting it every time it happens—that some poor schlemiel has been fired for blogging. It’s nice, then, to be able to report that one of those luckless bloggers has been hired due largely to the same blog that got him canned.

Joe Gordon was dismissed form his job at bookseller Waterstone’s based on…

Wall Street Journal contributing editor Peggy Noonan has managed, in one short column, to articulate the relationship between bloggers and mainstream media (MSM), past and present.

“Blogging changes how business is done in American journalism. The MSM isn’t over. It just can no longer pose as if it is The Guardian of Established Truth. The MSM is just another player now. A big one,…

The Washington Post’s Leslie Walker, author of the .com column, reports that blogging tools that expand on current capabilities are among the most prominent new products on display at DEMO, the technology conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. For example, BlogUnit, a product from What Counts, Inc., is designed to help companies manage employee blogging by by offering built-in controls that manages approvals…

In the aftermath of CNN chief news executive Eason Jordan stepping down, some bloggers are crowing about the second high-profile media casualty in five months. “The moral of the story: the media can’t just cover up the truth and expect to get away with it—and journalists can’t just toss around allegations without substantiation and expect people to believe them anymore,” according to Edward Morrissey, author…

Anybody involved with blogging (including PR people who are counseling their clients to jump into the blogosphere) needs to read Jeremy Pepper’s musings on the prospects for libel actions being taken against bloggers. Jeremy’s post includes interviews with a couple attorneys, including one for the New York Times.