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Journalism’s salvation is hiding in a mountain of data

By Michael Becker | Published: August 3, 2010
Matthew Ingram writes at GigaOm that the newest defense of pay­walls for news­pa­per web­sites is to com­pare them to subscription-based ser­vices that have found great suc­cess, such as HBO or Sirius satel­lite radio. The par­tic­u­lar exam­ple Ingram notes comes from vet­eran tele­vi­sion host Peter Funt, writ­ing in the Wall Street Journal. Funt con­tends that peo­ple com­plain­ing [...]
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The alpha and the omega

By Michael Becker | Published: March 12, 2010
Plagiarism has come up as a sub­ject of dis­cus­sion again recently, lead­ing some crit­ics to pon­der the rea­sons why jour­nal­ists lie, cheat and steal, pur­pose­fully or “accidentally.” Matthew Ingram tack­les pla­gia­rism from another point of view, say­ing that if jour­nal­ists thought more like blog­gers and truly val­ued hyper­link­ing, then they wouldn’t get them­selves into such [...]
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Comment moderation: How far is too far?

By Michael Becker | Published: November 18, 2009
Matthew Ingram has a short post up about a com­ment mod­er­a­tion deci­sion made by Kurt Greenbaum at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In short, Greenbaum made a call to the sys­tem admin­is­tra­tor behind an IP address that left two vul­gar com­ments. As a result, the com­menter lost his job. It’s a post that’s sparked some fas­ci­nat­ing ques­tions [...]
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The Serendipity Defense

By Michael Becker | Published: October 18, 2009
Matthew Ingram talks about the “serendip­ity defense” of news­pa­pers. Basically, he says that news­pa­pers col­lect all sorts of sto­ries because they have to appeal to a wide range of read­ers. With all that dif­fer­ent con­tent in one place, it’s more likely that you’ll stum­ble upon some­thing that you would never have sought out on your [...]
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Blurring the lines between reporters and readers

By Michael Becker | Published: April 30, 2009
Matthew Ingram posted this great video today. It’s an inter­view with Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of the Guardian. Not only does his paper have one of the best Web pres­ences of all major news­pa­pers, but the guy says some good things about the future of jour­nal­ism, espe­cially when it comes to rely­ing on the wis­dom of [...]
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