LexisNexis
Summary
LexisNexis (often called "Lexis" or "Nexis" by customers), a division of Reed Elsevier, offers a widely used, searchable, and identically named archive of content from newspapers, magazines, legal documents and other printed sources. LexisNexis describes itself as the "world’s largest collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and business information" , and targets its products to a wide range of professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting and academic markets. Typical customers of LexisNexis include lawyers, law students, journalists, and academics. "It's how you know" was the primary slogan for LexisNexis for over a decade, but in 2007 it transitioned to a slogan of "Total Solutions." The LexisNexis world headquarters is located in Dayton, Ohio.LexisNexis services are delivered via two websites that require separate subscriptions: www.lexis.com is intended for legal research, while www.nexis.com is intended for corporations, local/state & federal government and academia.LexisNexis also offers several diverse product lines.
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A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists’ First Amendment rights
Editor’s note: We’ve talked before about the rise of (and backlash against) mugshot sites — those skeezy sites that get mugshots through public records, post them online for Google to find, and then take payments from the arrested to take them down. In court and in legislatures, efforts are afoot to go after these sites — but legitimate news organizations are threatened by overly broad approaches.
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The head of the Guardian's library on… nostalgia for press cuttings
The advent of the web was the death knell for newspaper cuttings files that been nurtured for decades.
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5 reporting tips from the college student who helped break Deadspin’s Manti Te’o story
An anonymous email forwarded to the Deadspin staff more than a week ago claimed the deceased girlfriend of Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o never actually existed.
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Media Outlets Defend Being Duped by Te'o Hoax
In the frenzy to cover Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s triumph over tragedy in his final season as a college football player, reporters failed to pick up on one not-so-minor detail: Te’o’s recently-deceased girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, never actually existed. After Deadspin exposed the hoax this past Wednesday, the media outlets that initially covered the Te’o saga scrambled to explain how they had been duped.
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South African paper corrects quote attribution
South Africa’s The Sowetan corrects the attribution of a notable quote, but doesn’t specify who actually said it:.
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Irish Daily Mail accidentally kills off actor
In Friday’s Isaac Bickerstaffe column, we referred to the well-known Irish actor Milo O’Shea. We wish to make it clear that Mr O’Shea is alive and well and living… Read more.
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Bloomberg’s big bite for billions of legal dollars
For decades, the multibillion dollar market for legal research has been a cozy club for two. But now financial giant Bloomberg has fully powered up Bloomberg Law, a rival that could at last disrupt the status quo.
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Irish Daily Mail clarifies nature of insults exchanged during debate
An Irish Daily Mail apology offers a bit of flavor from what appears to have been a spirited debate:.
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Newslook iPad app brings order to news video viewing
While video lovers have gotten more and more social services that serve up interesting clips from friends, it’s still not easy to construct a more comprehensive look at video news by topic. That’s the gap that New York state startup Newslook is trying to fill with a new iPad app that allows users to construct channels of their favorite news subjects on the fly.
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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette offers a playful correction to mistaken book title
We recently praised The Hunger Games trilogy in this column. We liked it… Read more.
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