Archive for December, 2008
Monday, December 29th, 2008
News organizations won't stay afloat and continue to provide an essential service to democracy because the public suddenly values what they've been selling.
They'll stay afloat because forward-thinking leaders will make sure the news organizations are damn good at the next news model, and the next one after that. Someone is ...
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
Truth is one of the bedrock principles of journalism, as it should be.
But what if the public decided it placed zero value in truth? What if the public decided it sought nothing more than affirmation of existing beliefs, even if it came at the expense of truth? What if the ...
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
"One thing we don’t get with online sourcing : verification of the source. When you have a nickname and a maybe-fake email addy, how can you resist manipulation and ill will ? Are virtual witnesses as valuable as real ones ? How can we backup our stories with sources we ...
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
(This is Part 2 on my series about crowdsourcing. Part 1 argued the crowd can help ease the pain of a shrinking staff, and Part 3 defended the underlying principles of crowdsourcing.)
I understand that crowdsourcing is a scary word to a lot of journalists. So I thought it would ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
(This is Part 1 of a three-part series on crowdsourcing. Read Part 2 for specific examples of ways the crowd can be responsibly deployed, and Part 3 for a defense of the underlying principles of it.)
Last week, my newspaper said goodbye to nine journalists, a combined 227 years of experience ...
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