open resources in journalism
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Open Resources in Journalism
What are Open Resources
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WHAT IS OPEN?
OPEN Means
• Resource that is openly available for journalists to use without an accompanying need to pay royalties or licence fees
• Resource that is released under a licence that facilitates reuse, and potentially adaptation, without first requesting permission from the copyright holder
Why Open Resources in Journalism
• News is more rapidly and widely disseminated. • It allows innovative business models to emerge that
rely on free and legal sharing and reuse.• For journalism students, the digital age requires
more than hands-on reporting, writing, and publication of stories. Students must also embrace the capabilities of the Internet for virtual collaboration, viral dissemination, and feedback loops that inform and deepen original stories. All of these web-based opportunities depend on knowledge and proactive application of open content licensing, such as with Creative Commons.
Examples of Open Resources in Journalism
Propublica
• ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
• The Mission is to expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.
• Each story that is published is distributed in a manner designed to maximize its impact. Many of their “deep dive” stories are offered exclusively to a traditional news organization, free of charge, for publication or broadcast. They have had 104 publishing partners in our five and half years
• Propublica encourages others to "steal“ its stories; it encourages other sites to reproduce their stories as long as they are credited and linked to under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license (CC BY-NC-ND).
Steal Our Stories• You can’t edit our material, except to reflect relative changes
in time, location and editorial style. (For example, “yesterday” can be changed to “last week,” and “Portland, Ore.” to “Portland” or “here.”)
• If you’re republishing online, you have to link to us and to include all of the links from our story.
• You can’t sell our material separately or syndicate it.• It’s okay to put our stories on pages with ads, but not ads
specifically sold against our stories. You can’t state or imply that donations to your organization support ProPublica’swork.
• You can’t republish our material wholesale, or automatically; you need to select stories to be republished individually. You can’t use our work to populate a web site designed to improve rankings on search engines, or solely to gain revenue from network-based advertisements.
• You cannot republish our photographs or illustrations without specific permission (ask our Communications Director Nicole Collins Bronzan if you’d like to).
• Any web site our stories appear on must include a prominent and effective way to contact you.
• You have to credit us — ideally in the byline. We prefer “Author Name, ProPublica.” If your CMS does not allow you to do this, please include a line at the top of the story that reads: “This story was originally published by ProPublica."
• We do not generally permit translation of our stories into another language.
• Note that you can grab HTML code for our stories easily. Click on the “republish” button on the left sidebar of every story.
• We’re licensed under Creative Commons, which provides the legal details. If you have questions, contact our president, Richard Tofel.
• Huffington Post Investigative Fund• The Huffington Post Investigative Fund is a
professional newsroom that produces watchdog journalism and is staffed by reporters and editors from a variety of news organizations, such as the Washington Post, Business Week, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and more. It's a destination site with all news published under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works license (CC BY-ND).
Groundreport
• It covers global news. It has over 5,000 contributors, citizen journalists from all around the world with various levels of experience, who submit articles, photos, and videos of news events, which are vetted by a staff of editors. Groundreportpublishes stories on its site and through syndication partners such as Google News, the Huffington Post, and YouTube; and shares 50% of its advertising revenue with its contributors, based on unique traffic to posts. Reporters retain rights to their work and can choose which Creative Commons license to publish under.
• http://groundreport.com/
Community-funded reporting
• Spot.Us is an open source project to pioneer "community powered reporting." Through Spot.Us the public can commission and participate with journalists to do reporting on important and perhaps overlooked topics.
• Spot.us covers local news, and is currently focused on the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles. It is up to the organization whether they wish to publish the story under default copyright or a Creative Commons license. Otherwise, all content is made available through a Creative Commons Attribution Only license (CC BY), enabling any news organization to republish the story.
• "Afloat in the Ocean, Expanding Islands of Trash" by Lindsey Hoshaw, was featured in the Science section of the New York Times on November 9, 2009.
• Freelancer, Lindsey Hoshaw used Spot.us to raise $6,000 from 116 donors to pay for reporting about pollution patches in the Pacific Ocean.
• The New York Times bought the story and Hoshaw's photos. Spot.usand Hoshaw kept the fees and funders were paid back. In this case, the story is available on the New York Times website under default copyright.
• Al Jazeera is the first major news source to use Creative Commons. Al Jazeera built a Creative Commons video repository consisting of broadcast-quality video of the war in Gaza and made it available to anyone for use under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY).
• Because Al Jazeera had access to the region amidst scarcity of news footage available, the CC BY license enabled other news organizations report on the footage while crediting Al Jazeera—increasing both coverage of the war and Al Jazeera as the original news source.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• ABC released archival new footage under Creative Commons to wikimedia commons on ABC 80th B’dayas part of 80 days that changed our lives.
• Open Archives project by the ABC which has released hundreds of archival objects, encompassing audio, video and photographic material, including many more news and current affairs broadcasts, for reuse under CC licences.
How can journalists make use of CC?
When releasing their work online, they should consider releasing it under a CC licence.
The second way journalists - and everyone else for that matter - can use CC licences is to find work to build upon.
• Creative Commons—an incredibly powerful legal tool that many media outlets take for granted
• Back in 2002, Creative Commons first published a set of licenses that were meant to ease the way for creative work to be shared and reused. The licenses allowed the owners of copyrighted works to release some privileges to anyone who agreed to follow a simple set of rules for using the works
Attribution - CC BY
• This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered. Recommended for maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.
Attribution-ShareAlike
CC BY-SA
• This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use. This is the license used by Wikipedia, and is recommended for materials that would benefit from incorporating content from Wikipedia and similarly licensed projects.
Attribution-NoDerivatives
CC BY-ND
• This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
• This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-
ShareAlike
CC BY-NC-SA• This license lets others remix, tweak, and build
upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
Attribution-NonCommercial-
NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND
• This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.
About CC0 — “No Rights Reserved”
• CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law.
• In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright
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