Local Journalism Deserves Better Than “right-click Reporting” – Folsom Times

Local Journalism Deserves Better Than “right-click Reporting” – Folsom Times

In today’s digital media landscape, copying someone else’s work may be easy, but it undermines local journalism, violates copyright law and ultimately hurts the communities good reporting is meant to serve. Locally crafted journalism has never mattered more than it does right now—and paradoxically, it has never been easier to exploit. We live in an era where the tools to publish “news” are abundant, cheap and instant. A website can go live in mi…