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This is the age of the individual voice, liberated by the new media. Anyone in the younger generation who yearns for a column on the Washington Post op-ed page is seeking oblivion.
Andrew Sullivan, New York Times, Washington’s New Brat Pack Masters Media. (via futurejournalismproject)(Source: futurejournalismproject)
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Last week, LiveJournal blogger Monica Gaudio e-mailed the staff at Cooks Source magazine to complain about her apple pie recipe that they had published without her author consent. Never having submitted the article before, Monica demanded the magazine’s editor to apologize and donate $130 to Columbia School of Journalism for the blunder. The editor Judith Griggs then wrote back with an unapologetic response, saying that Minca should be thankful for getting her online recipe published in print:
But honestly Monica, the web is considered “public domain” and you should be happy we just didn’t “lift” your whole article and put someone else’s name on it!
With cyberethics like copyright and plagiarism at stake, internet vigilantes called themselves to duty; hundreds of internet users left harsh complaints on the magazine’s Facebook page as well as Judith’s personal profile, not to mention the video of Hitler’s reaction to the scandal and fake resignation letter allegedly signed by the managing editor.
For more deets, read KYMdb - Cooks Source Recipe Plagiarism Scandal.
Well done Internet, well done.
(via knowyourmeme)
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We thought the internet was killing print. But it isn’t
A fascinating new piece of research this week looks in detail at the success of newspaper websites and attempts to find statistical correlations with sliding print copy sales. As one goes up, the other must go down, surely? These are the underpinnings of transition. But “in the UK at least, there is no such correlation”, reports the number-crunching analyst Jim Chisholm. “This is true at both a micro-level in terms of UK newspaper titles and groups and at a macro-level comparing national internet adoption with circulation performance. Indeed, the opposite case could be argued: that newspapers that do well on the web also do better in print… Understandably worried traditional journalists should know that the internet is not a threat.”
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If three-paragraph distillations of other people’s writing is your idea of content, god bless you. Then everyone’s gonna do well and eight professionals will be doing real journalism while there’s still a little cash in the pipeline. That’s not quality content. Quality content is content that matters, not what most entertains; not the juiciest tidbit about Justin Bieber.
The sad, unfortunate thing is, the juiciest tidbit about Bieber gets the hits, which pays the bills. The important stuff that matters doesn’t get read. Journalism is struggling because we have a society that puts a high value on junk and a low value on substance.
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“The stats screen wants to see you in its office.”
Ghetto version of Gawker’s Big Board
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(Source: formerlydietcock)
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The New York Times does not use Web metrics to determine how articles are presented, but it does use them to make strategic decisions about its online report. We don’t let metrics dictate our assignments and play, because we believe readers come to us for our judgment, not the judgment of the crowd. We’re not ‘American Idol.’
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The Washington Post Still Hates and Does Not "Get" The Internet (Or Themselves)
fek:
I’ve been sitting around with a set of notes on my desk title “WAPO: FUCK INTERNET, OURSELVES” just waiting for their next fumble. Which happened today. I changed the headline, but everything else from the notes…
What this is, however? More evidence towards the widely-held notion that the Washington Post is facing one of the worst identity and culture crises in the history of contemporary American journalism, one filled with doubt, insecurity, and hate towards that which they don’t understand, when they’re not busy pulling the rug out from under themselves because they can’t tell the difference between the sky and the ground when it comes to ethics, among other vital issues.
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It’s to Berke that Jones poses the question, “Why is aged news better than real news?” When Berke contends that the Times doesn’t sell “aged news” Jones counters by pointing to a copy of the paper and asks, “Show me one thing in there that happened today.” Berke then spends the next few seconds looking utterly befuddled while trying to come up with an answer.
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A conversation about the future of newspapers with Walter Isaacson of “Time,” Robert Thomson of “Wall Street Journal” and Mort Zuckerman of “The New York Daily News” on Charlie Rose
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