Comments on: For news organisations, small might prove to be beautiful

By: It's Original Reporting or Nothing | Joe Wilcox

It's Original Reporting or Nothing | Joe Wilcox — Tue, 11 May 2010 02:55:50 +0000

[...] is at it again—and spot on in his assessment: One of the things that I’ve been pondering lately is whether it would be possible to do a news [...]

By: It’s Original Reporting or Nothing « Oddly Together

It’s Original Reporting or Nothing « Oddly Together — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:10:36 +0000

[...] has blogged a couple times recently about the value of original reporting. He’s at it again—and spot on in his assessment: One of the things that I’ve been pondering lately is whether it would be possible to do a news [...]

By: Joe Wilcox

Joe Wilcox — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:51:19 +0000

I agree. It's the way of the future, Ian. A niche-sized publication doing real, original reporting and extending that through a social community of readers can succeed. My old employer, like so many others, is obsessed with SEO. The flawed theory: More stories means more pageviews which means more advertising. But if everybody does that, all the content looks the same.

"Be original" is the motto for this era's successful news organization.