Now Public India Based Editor Receives Journalism's Loeb Award for his Articles published on Now Public!

By, Uwe Paschen.

 (All rights reserved, do not Copy with out permission from Author!) 

Source: http://www.indiajournal.com/pages/event.php?id=3915 (India Journal)

The India Journal is reporting that Now Public Editor Sanjay Jha received the Journalism's Award on the 17th of July 2008, for his Articles published on Now Public.

This Award is the Highest Honour in American business Journalism attributed each Year to the most deserving Journalist in this field!

Sanjay Jha worked for other media such BBC, PBS and even France 2 before he joint Now Public New a Canadian based News Site.

Leonard Brody, CEO of now Public stated that "Sanjay had proven him self as an extremely accomplished Journalist in just a short time as NowPublic's South Asia Bureau Chief." 

Personally I like Sanjay and wish him all the best my self!

Brody added "We are extremely proud and cannot think of a more deserving candidate."

The Award was established in 1957 as the Leob Award by Gerald Leob, to encourage quality reporting in business, Finance and the Economy.

The Award is presented by the Anderson School of Management at the University of California in Los Angeles. (PTI)

As I checked the articles published by Sanjay Jha that where submitted to the comity earlier and double checked with past publications I could not find one single original article by the recipient of this Years Loeb Award, Sanjay Jha. 

All articles where Copy and passed written prior to their publication by Sanjay Jha by other Journalist in the field around the World, to whom the Award should have gone to in the first place. They may have had to share that Award though and there for it was probably easier to attribute it to the one that Copied and passed all the article calling them its own!

I am sure though that their must be a mistake some where, yet I could not find one! What is not clear though, if the Jury knew that those articles where all copied and passed as well as Doctored. If so then Journalism does no longer matter and all journalist may as well stop writing for they never be credited for their work.

I could so far not reach any one in charge of the Award and I am still waiting for a response! 

Yet according to Copy laws and rules around the World this cannot be, the articles submitted to such an Award Comity all have to be Originals!

See some of the rules here below:

http://www.nowpublic.com/newsroom/tips

It may help a bit! Further Here's one take on copyright.

There are two different issues: what's legal and what's ethical. The former is spelled out in law. The latter is a personal choice.

Dartmouth has a good, brief resource on copyright. This resource also covers Fair Use, which is really what a highlight is about. From that section:

"The purpose and the character of the use, including whether it is for commercial or non-profit educational purposes

• The nature or type of the copyrighted material (i.e., periodical, film, book, etc.)
• The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the whole
• The effect of the use on the potential market for or value of the copy-righted material

There are many good resources that cover the Berne convention, copyright law, DCA, etc. on the 'net.  

All News agency even NowPublic have copy rights and rules as well as copy protection and regulations implemented and to obey by!

I was debating for the last couple of days if I want and should write this breaking News, and I did, yet not because I wanted to, rather because I felt it to be a duty to put some light on this, especially since I have nothing against Sanja personally, it was not an easy writ!