Unpublishing
Kieran Forde,
Feb 10, 2021
Kieran Forde sent me a pointer to a list of articles on the topic of 'unpublishing' in journalism. It raises for me a host of questions. After all, while on one hand newspapers complain about people using their headlines for free, on the other hand they use their own sources for free. Newspapers do not create the news (or at least, they shouldn't), they observe and chronicle the lives of people in the community. So who owns these stories? Newspapers assume they have full ownership, which is why they demand to get paid for any mention of them, but recent rules regarding ownership and management of data may be challenging that presumption. The old phrase describing ownership - "nothing about me without me" - takes on new meaning when the start talking about news, history and education.
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