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Media Law Exam Review Session 2

Note: I wasn't able to attend the second revision section, but listened through the audio recording on Moodle.

Media law Examination 2011

N.B. Answers are in bold for multiple choice.

1) Answer a, b, c or d. 1 mark per question.

i. A trial of an indictable offence is heard in which court?
a. The High Court
b. The Divisional Court
c. The Crown Court
d. The Magistrates Court

Media Law Exam Review Session 1

Note: These may be somewhat scattered and incomplete, same caveat with all my notes -- Battle moves really quickly through this stuff. Also, apologies for any spelling errors.

  • Have to answer all questions. “You need to know a little about a lot.”
  • “Preferable” to know the cases and the statutes.

Answers for 2010 test (Questions available on Moodle):

  1. Magistrates Court
  2. (Didn't get it)
  3. Crown Court
  4. Inditement
  5. Strasbourg
  6. Public authority
  7. Attorney General

The Evolving Newsroom: Q&A with Simon Rogers

The Evolving Newsroom is a series of Q&As with important names in the data journalism field, discussing how the newsroom is evolving to better incorporate data and data-driven journalism. Next I've spoken with Simon Rogers, Editor at the Guardian's Data Store and Data Blog.

Ændrew Rininsland: To start with, would you mind describing a typical workday?

The Evolving Newsroom: Q&A with Paul Bradshaw

The Evolving Newsroom is a series of Q&As with important names in the data journalism field, discussing how the newsroom is evolving to better incorporate data and data-driven journalism. This time I've interviewed Paul Bradshaw, Editor at the Online Journalism Blog and lecturer at City University London.

Ændrew Rininsland: You said at one point that universities aren’t producing very many journalists going into Computer Assisted Reporting (CAR). Why do you think that is?

The Evolving Newsroom: Q&A with Aron Pilhofer

The Evolving Newsroom is a series of Q&As with important names in the data journalism field, discussing how the newsroom is evolving to better incorporate data and data-driven journalism. Next, I've talked with Aron Pilhofer, Editor of Interactive News at the New York Times.

Ændrew Rininsland: Could you describe a typical workday?

Aron Pilhofer: For me? Lots and lots of meetings. Not so true for the whole group, but for me — lots and lots of meetings.

Q: So you have more of a managerial role?

A: Right.

The Evolving Newsroom: Q&A with Conrad Quilty-Harper

The Evolving Newsroom is a series of Q&As with important names in the data journalism field, discussing how the newsroom is evolving to better incorporate data and data-driven journalism. To start things off, I've talked to Conrad Quilty-Harper, who is the Interactive News Editor for the Telegraph.

Ændrew Rininsland: You’d written for Engadget before, what was it like going from a technology website to a traditional newspaper?

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Some fun with the semantic web

I've recently been playing with the semantic web (for the uninitiated, the semantic web is a structuring of web content in terms of what it depicts instead of just a bunch of linked text files) and have come up with the following two queries -- let me know if you find these useful!

For SPARQL (I.e., dbpedia), the following should return how many competitors each country is sending to the London 2012 Olympics:

Importing a proprietary user database into BuddyPress like a boss

Disclaimer: this may have changed in more recent versions of BuddyPress, so your mileage may very substantially. Please let me know if something's not working, but caveat lector none of this comes with any warranty or support whatsoever.

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Media Law -- Copyright Law

For exam

  • 30 multi-choice questions;
  • Know the names and intent of provisions; know case names.

Important cases

  • Flood v. Times Newspapers Ltd. (2011) -- Supreme Court
    • Upholds and restates the Reynolds Defence.
    • Article allegations that a British security company with wealthy Russian clients paid for sensitive information about extraditions
    • Subject to a libel complaint from police officer named. Flood was exonerated, so was pressing for libel.

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