Louis Gray and Chris Saad discuss the issue of real-time news reporting and curation, most recently seen with this week’s controversy involving TechCrunch and Teens In Tech CEO Daniel Brusilovsky. Are we going to see a transformation of journalism from solely content creation to a mix of content curation, and if not, how can we compensate investigative journalism?
People mentioned include: Loic Le Meur, Gabe Rivera, Loren Feldman, Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble, Marshall Kirkpatrick
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On this week’s edition of Rebooting The News, NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen riffs on the seminal NPR/This American Life co-production from last year, Giant Pool of Money, and finds in it the germ of a compelling argument: Deep reporting is not only good journalism, it may actually be the thing that creates a desire for more news, building new consumers of news where there were none before. From http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/05/rosen-deep-reporting-creates-hunger-for-updates/
Curation What do we mean when we talk about curation online?
New communications technologies are revolutionizing our experience of news and information. The avalanche of news, gossip, and citizen reporting available on the web is immensely valuable but also often deeply unreliable. How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
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