Required Reading for October 23 to 27; Quiz Style Guideline

Required readings for the week of October 23 to 27 are:

Dube, Jonathan (2005) "RSS for Journalists," Poynter Online, February 16. Available at: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=78383

Gillmor, Dan (2006) "What Ethics Should Bloggers Have?" in Reporters Without Borders (eds.) Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents. Available at: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=15003

Note that these two readings are presented in a formal style which you should use for your works cited list at the end of your quiz essay due later this week. The list at the end of your essay should include similar information for any work you used in your essay. Within the text of the essay, you should briefly identify each work as you use it as in this example:

As Dan Gillmor suggests, bloggers may not be professional journalists and may not need formal journalistic codes, but if they follow some of the ethical guidelines of journalism then they may gain the trust of their readers.

Using this style should allow your writing to flow while giving enough identifying information to ensure your readers can locate your sources, regardless of whether hyperlinks are working or not. We can discuss this more in class.