The Internet Press Release (IPG) is an Internet-based, invitation-based professional organization for technology journalists. Originally formed in 1996 to help non-technical generalist journalists understand and write about the Web and other Internet technology topics. Recently, the organization has mainly become an active private forum for its members to discuss professional topics.
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About
IPG presents itself as "a professional organization that promotes excellence in journalism on the Internet and technology.Critical to the guild is a personal mailing list that connects editors, writers, and analysts in the Internet press community."
As a freelance veteran journalist and IPG member, Pam Baker, put it in 2009:
if you take a closer look, you will find members of IPG on almost all the important tech news stories told for decades.... Inability is not tolerated in this group; IPG has been known to eat it by itself.
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Now members of IPG are outstanding technology writers who are offered membership only by invitation. Such is issued by the most demanding and demanding of all judges: their most accomplished counterparts.... Many IPG members have degrees in technology or science rather than in journalism and/or programmers, consultants, and CIOs before they become authors.
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History
The fellowship comes from the USENET alt.internet.media-coverage group. In the mid-1990s, group-dependent journalists became frustrated by the disruptive behavior of some group members. Some members, including Esther Schindler and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, propose to move their discussion to a special invitation email list.
As Pam Baker explains in 2009:
IPG started many years ago as alt.internet.media-coverage. As the group's founders said "in response to a famous kook net who started changing the signal to noise ratio, IPG was formed as a special invite mailing list, as happened with many Usenet groups at the time, for similar reasons."
On April 5, 1996, IPG announced its formation in a press release, with the Vaughan-Nichols byline - now named chairman of IPG. In part, the release explains the Guild thus:
Writers, editors and analysts from around the world are united to take a stand against poor and inaccurate reporting about the Internet. The Internet Press Guild... is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving accuracy and excellence in reporting and on the Internet.
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IPG will serve as an information clearinghouse for all the unfortunate journalists out there who are asked to write about the internet, but do not know where to start.
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The Guild also gives members the opportunity to interact via electronic mailing lists.
As explained by Vaughan-Nichols, IPG was originally set up to help general and non-technical journalists understand and write about the Web and other Internet technology topics. Recently, the organization has mainly become an active private forum for its members to discuss professional topics.
ACLU Awards
IPG and its members are the recipients of the Civil Liberties Award from the ACLU Foundation, as part of the struggle to prevent censorship through Accountability Communications in 1996.
See also
- Ross Greenberg - founding member
- Bruce Byfield
- Mary Jo Foley
- Tristan Louis
- Robin "Roblimo" Miller
- Jason Perlow
References
External links
- The Internet Press Release website
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