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Creative Commons – A Journalist’s Guide to Creative Commons 2023: Overview for newsrooms on choosing CC licenses, attribution formats, and integrating CC into reporting and republication workflows. [1]
A Journalist’s Guide to Creative Commons (PDF): In‑depth handbook for journalists explaining license types, common newsroom scenarios, and practical templates for CC attributions. [2]
Creative Commons – Journalism Wiki Page: Background on how news organizations have applied CC licenses, with real examples of CC‑licensed news content creation and reuse. [3]
Creative Commons – Open Journalism Archive: Articles and case studies on “open journalism,” highlighting outlets that publish or share under Creative Commons licenses. [4]
Creative Commons – About CC Licenses: Official explanations of each Creative Commons license and what they allow in terms of redistribution, remixing, and commercial news reuse. [5]
Poynter – It’s time for news organizations to embrace Creative Commons: Analysis and examples of how newsrooms are using CC, with discussion of benefits, pitfalls, and implementation strategies. [6]
The Conversation – Republishing guidelines (Creative Commons): Concrete CC‑based republication rules showing how one newsroom structures permissions, attribution, and limits when others reuse its stories. [7]
ProPublica – How You or Your Newsroom Can Republish ProPublica’s Stories: Example CC licensing policy from a major investigative outlet, with step‑by‑step republication conditions for other news organizations. [8]
UC Office of Scholarly Communication – Creative Commons Licenses: Explains CC licenses and recommends good practices for using them with articles, relevant for newsrooms covering or reusing scholarly content. [9]
Indiana University Libraries – Copyright for Journalists: Guide for journalists on copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons, with pointers on when and how CC affects news content reuse. [10]

Sources
[1] A Journalist’s Guide to Creative Commons 2023 https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/05/a-journalists-guide-to-creative-commons-2023/
[2] [PDF] A-Journalists-Guide-to-Creative-Commons-2.0.pdf https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/A-Journalists-Guide-to-Creative-Commons-2.0.pdf
[3] Journalism – Creative Commons Wiki https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/journalism
[4] Open Journalism Archives – Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/category/open-knowledge/open-journalism/
[5] About CC Licenses – Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/
[6] It’s time for news organizations to embrace Creative Commons https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2016/its-time-for-news-organizations-to-embrace-creative-commons/
[7] Republishing guidelines – Creative Commons – The Conversation https://theconversation.com/us/republishing-guidelines
[8] How You or Your Newsroom Can Republish ProPublica’s Stories https://www.propublica.org/article/how-you-or-your-newsroom-can-republish-propublicas-stories-515
[9] Creative Commons Licenses – Office of Scholarly Communication https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/creative-commons-licenses/
[10] Copyright for Journalists – Library Research Guides https://guides.libraries.indiana.edu/c.php?g=158548&p=1176289

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