TweetWhen Central PA NewsVote first launched last week, the initial post got 36 comments, many of which were story ideas I was very happy about. (Catch up on my new blog, in which I solicit story ideas from readers and allow them to assign me their favorite via polling, in my older entries on the …
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TweetThanks to all who have contributed your thoughts to the evolution of my new community-directed blog: Central PA NewsVote. It’ll be the keystone of my new job responsibility at The Patriot-News. The idea started with a blog post in January, and dozens of comments from other journalists and readers really helped me sharpen the idea. …
TweetNews 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 going to figure out …
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TweetTruth 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 audience cared about truth …
Thought exercise: What if the public didn’t care about truth? Read More »
Tweet(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 help to offer some specific …
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Tweet(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 between them. In the …
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