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A cooling off period in Bloomington, Ill.
Okay, this is the wrong way to build a civil community on your newspaper’s Web site. Just before the new year, the staff at the Pentagraph in Bloomington, Ill., decided that the comments on its stories were too uncivil, so the paper took its ball and went home: Reader comments on Pantagraph.com often are informative, [...]
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 [...]
Dabblers go home; journalists need to be social media leaders
Gina Chen, who I admire for her clear-headed and sensible writing about how journalists can use social media technologies, reminds us today that, for many modern readers, if the news is important enough, it will find them. It’s on journalists and news organizations to make it possible for the news to find its audience, which [...]
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