links for 2010-10-20

"Journalists with a good idea for an investigative story with a European angle can now apply for research grants from the European Union. 1,1 million Euro will be distributed in two rounds of applications. The first deadline is on January 15th 2011".

"According to Reporters Without Borders Greece has dropped 38 places in their press freeom index and now in 70th place, joint last place with Bulgaria in the European Union.In its latest report the organisation said that the placing was due to,  "to political unrest and physical attacks on several journalists". The Greek national daily, Eleutherotypia  also cited attacks by the police on reporters as a major cause for the fall in ranking for Greece in terms of press freedom."

There is a real gap in perception by parents of what their children have done and what they think they have done. To an extent though, wasn't it ever thus with drink, drugs, cigarettes and snogging...Fascinating, and at times disturbing research.

"There's a kind of unspoken, accepted rule in journalism that nicking stories in one direction, and in particular for print, is OK. So magazine stories can be reused by local papers, regional journalists can see their work appear in the nationals and blogs are fair game for anyone, all without any suggestion that the new story isn't original work. But that kind of arrogant assumption is an anachronism that just doesn't fly anymore, not in the world of the web."

Ignorance != legal bliss