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Humanity is more important and honest than objectivity for journalists
And I learned that the notion of objectivity is a fig leaf for journalists who don’t want to deal honestly with our own humanity and don’t want to take personal responsibility for the human impact of our journalism. We’re just doing our jobs. We’re just being objective. Objects can’t be responsible.
via stevebuttry.wordpress.com
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Responding to readers by proxy
After reading a story on the Billings Gazette’s Web site about a woman who spent several months living in a sandstone cave above the city, I perused the story’s comments.
This was among them:
My question is, why didn’t the reporter respond himself? If there’s a policy preventing him from doing so, why does the paper [...]
Also posted in Audience, Social Media Tagged Billings Gazette, commenting, Social Media Leave a comment
Journalism’s woes don’t resonate
A few days ago, Columbia Journalism School released the 96-page “Reconstruction of American Journalism” report, which I’m about halfway done reading. Journalism veteran-turned-consultant Steve Outing noted on his blog that the report doesn’t offer a lot of new information for the people who are already well-versed in the media “crisis.”
Instead, Outing says the report [...]
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NYT publishes news of its own economic woes
News today that the New York Times will need to cut 100 newsroom jobs by the end of the year, whether through buyouts or layoffs. A memo to employees from editor Bill Keller (published here) explains the situation.
What’s more, the Times announced this news on its own Media Decoder blog, where Richard Perez-Pena explains [...]
Fact-checking culture
Craig Silverman at the Columbia Journalism Review writes that American’s newest pastime is “fact checking,” an obsession with (sometimes) objectivity and transparency fed by the easily availability of information on the Web.
Silverman points out that the term “fact checking” it getting thrown around so often that it’s in danger of losing its meaning. In addition [...]
The importance of transparency
Giving readers insight into the process of journalism goes a long way toward establishing trust.
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Richard Sambrook: Transparency is the new objectivity, and the Internet is not your enemy
I came across this post by Mercedes Bunz in the Guardian about a talk given by Richard Sambrook at the Oxford Social Media Convention. Sambrook is the head of the BBC Global News Division.
On the importance of objectivity and transparency:
Objectivity, he then pointed out, had always been an idea important for the news. For [...]
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