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Would 501(c)3 status save journalism? I guess it depends if you think public TV and NPR are sufficient to cover the vast news needs of this country.
A side note: We understand that the bill as currently worded would only include large metro dailies, but members of the Senator's staff have indicated that it will be modified to include all newspapers. It is uncertain at this point, whether this will apply to non-editorial free papers.
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Senate bill would allow tax-exempt status for newspapers
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By
Mark Fitzgerald
Published: March 24, 2009 1:08 PM ET
(CHICAGO) Newspapers perform a public service
for democracy and should be allowed to operate as tax-exempt
non-profits, U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D.-Md., proposed Tuesday.
Cardin introduced a bill that would explicitly include
newspapers among organizations eligible for 501(c)(3) status. The
non-profit status is the same that public radio and television have
now.
The legislation would give a national green light for
newspapers to adopt the so-called Low Profit Limited Liability Company
business model, often shortened to L3C.
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Social networking: Separating the trend from the trendy
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by Alan Schulman , Tuesday, March 31, 2009
It seems as though the latest bright shiny object our industry has become awash in a wave of obsessing about lately, besides Twittering, is the need for a social networking strategy.
Given the increasing number of social networking sites, strategy offerings, analytics and insights companies, dashboards, blog scrapings, creative applications and myriad of all things "social networking," I was reminded of how the same sort of "Everyone go left" mentality hit when the user-generated content bandwagon came to town a couple of years back. Let's see, have we figured out an equivalent acronym to UGC for social networking yet... SNS? Wait, no.... we already have SMS.
Seriously, I have no beef with the social networking craze. One look at the scaling of activity on Facebook tells you this has become more than trendy. But then when entire digital agencies begin wrapping their whole portfolio under the guise of "branded social applications," you can't help but wonder whether or not we've taken things a bit too... socially.
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Senate legislation would federalize cybersecurity
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Rules for Private Networks Also Proposed
By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
(Wednesday, April 1, 2009)
Key lawmakers are pushing to dramatically escalate U.S. defenses
against cyberattacks, crafting proposals that would empower the
government to set and enforce security standards for private industry
for the first time.
The proposals, in Senate legislation that could be introduced as
early as today, would broaden the focus of the government's
cybersecurity efforts to include not only military networks but also
private systems that control essentials such as electricity and water
distribution. At the same time, the bill would add regulatory teeth to
ensure industry compliance with the rules, congressional officials
familiar with the plan said yesterday.
Addressing what intelligence officials describe as a gaping
vulnerability, the legislation also calls for the appointment of a
White House cybersecurity "czar" with unprecedented authority to shut
down computer networks, including private ones, if a cyberattack is
underway, the officials said.
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Cheers,
Craig McMullin
Executive Director
AFCP
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