What can blogging teach traditional journalism?
The Benton Comm Policy Listserv led me to First Draft by Tim Porter (Ink-stained Kvetches about Newspapering, Readership & Relevance), who asks: What can blogging teach traditional journalism? Here's what he's come up with:
- 1) Be more personal.
2) Let the public in on news decision-making.
3) Be more focused and intentional -- stop trying to be everything to everybody.
4) Print the truth, not just the facts.
5) Don't just report, teach... Become a resource and not just a product.
6) Be more local.
7) Give readers access to source material (like the full text of interviews).
8) Add multiple RSS feeds to web sites. (Here's a description of what RSS is.)
9) Add email addresses to stories.
10) Learn to change in response to the flow of news or market conditions.
1 Comments:
Dougie ...
Thanks for the link. Just to reinforce the notion that we all live on a mighty small rock, I grew up in Rochester and spent plenty of time in Geneseo in the late '60s trying to avoid the last U.S. military quagmire.
Best ...
Tim Porter
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