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Are journalists corporate spies?

Published: April 21, 2010

A thought experiment: When journalists investigate private businesses for wrongdoing, or upcoming products, or rumors, etc., do they commit corporate espionage? By “corporate espionage” (or “industrial espionage”), I mean simply when one business attempts to obtain information about another business for competitive gain. Journalists usually work for privately-held media. Learning about other companies helps journalists [...]

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From SPJ’s unimaginative department

Published: March 22, 2010

In researching state shield laws recently I found that past presidents of the Society of Professional Journalists had written editorials about them. I couldn’t resist the irony of journalists recycling old editorials into new ones. This is the stuff of bad PR reps, or at least so we were taught. Here are the opening sentences [...]

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