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Journalism can’t be a one-way street anymore

I don’t know who made up the rule that news reporters aren’t sup­posed to respond to pub­lic com­ments about and cri­tiques of their work. Maybe it’s not even a rule. Maybe its one of those arbi­trary rules that some­body thought was a good idea once upon a time, though it really had no basis in [...]
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Who owns the e-mail interview?

Paul Bradshaw, writ­ing for Poynter, has raised some great ques­tions about inter­views con­ducted by e-mail. Bradshaw was inter­viewed by a reporter via e-mail. At the end of their exchange, Bradshaw asked the reporter if that per­son would mind if Bradshaw pub­lished the e-mail exchange to his blog as raw data. The jour­nal­ist minded, say­ing, even­tu­ally, that [...]
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One-time titles as a business model for journalism?

Could producing one-time titles be a model for sustaining investigative journalism?
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Consider the journalism on Twitter, not whether Twitter is journalism

Twitter is a medium and can­not be con­sid­ered as a whole, writes Alfred Hermida, who’s wor­ried that we’re about to rehash the old argu­ment about whether a new medium “is journalism.” Rather than argu­ing about whether Twitter is or isn’t jour­nal­ism, we should shift the con­ver­sa­tion to under­stand­ing the jour­nal­ism tak­ing place on this plat­form [...]
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Jason Calcanis on how to kill Google

This smacks of car­tel, but only if the pub­lish­ers work together to start charg­ing for the right to index their con­tent. If they did it sep­a­rately, it would just be smart busi­ness — find­ing a way to charge for their online content. “New York Times, only avail­able on Bing.” The hor­ror, the horror! Of course, [...]
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