Jay Rosen Quietly Defined Crowdsourcing at TEDx
Jay Rosen’s TEDx talk didn’t have the same brunt force that Jeff Jarvis delivered with “bullshit,” but Rosen’s outline for crowdsourcing is extremely enlightening.
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A review of NewsTrust’s new personalized aggregator MyNews from a user who used to work there.
Continue readingGoogle Wave for Journalism, A #hackshackers Event
Notes on the Hacks and Hackers event at Google on how Google Wave can be used for journalism and thoughts about what how to pitch Wave. Continue reading
Objectivity: The Mortal Ethic that Started the ‘Quest for Innocence’
A response to Jay Rosen’s theory of the newspapers’ quest for innocence: sources are going direct, the Fourth Estate has lost its teeth, and Objectivity is killing good journalism. Continue reading
Dear Bill Keller
Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times, gave an interview to TIME magazine that showed a total lack of transparency, a fear that journalism itself was under attack, and a disturbing amount of the ‘old media’ mindset. This is a look at what he got wrong, and how to fix it.
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