A huge amount has been said about Google’s latest move in its love-hate relationship with content publishers. There is no need to repeat that all here, so if you haven’t already, see the following:
Paidcontent with a good overview of the product.
Techspheres with a somewhat overblown reaction about how it will kill the newspaper industry.
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I just got passed this article from Nieman Lab, which looks at the way in which the Guardian quickly built a system to allow a crowdsourced analysis of the recently released MP Expense Claims in the UK.
Imagine you’re a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that [...]
Everyone is weighing in on whats wrong with the publishing business model. Several potential solutions are being proposed, but all of them require a significant cutting of content-creation costs – especially investigative journalism. And yet everyone values the journalistic fact-checking and dirt-digging that keeps business leaders, organisations and government in check.
So, why not try to [...]
Following Sarah Lacy’s controversial post on Techcrunch, “Who the hell is enrolling in journalism school right now?“, which ridiculed j-school training, several student journalists have asked me for my thoughts on the matter. I certainly don’t believe journalism is dead, but it is very apparent that the traditional structures for supporting quality journalism are dead.
Dan [...]
