July 17, 2009
Jeremy Toeman, talking about the truly absurd “Twittergate”, sums up why process journalism fails: “But this is par for the course if your job is breaking news as fast as possible, as there is no reward for being late nor is there a penalty for being inaccurate.” With process journalism, there is no penalty for being [...]
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April 16, 2009
Farhad Manjoo at Slate offers a timely reminder of one of the underlying realities of online business: “Everyone knows that print newspapers are our generation’s horse-and-buggy; in the most wired cities, they’ve been pummeled by competition from the Web. But it might surprise you to learn that one of the largest and most-celebrated new-media ventures [...]
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