Circle me on Google+Complaining about someone re-writing reporting is kind of like kvetching about the rain: it’s pointless, because you’ll end up wet regardless of your protestations. Every journalist relies on other people’s work. I became a reporter because I wanted to find important ideas and share them. Whether that happens through my authorship, or someone’s summary, is less important to me than making sure the news is spread."
— New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, to Jim Romenesko
“Twitter did/did not break news” is the new “Bloggers vs Journalists”
— Martin Belam (@currybet) February 15, 2012
Good technology journalism, important technology journalism, is about the cultural impact; the political ramifications; the state of an industry that we’re essentially relying on to provide much of the West’s economic clout in the future."
We’ve seen blogs become less about the instant and more about the Instapaper. A steady rise in popularity for Argo’s highest-trafficked site, MindShift, accompanied its move to less-frequent, longer-form blogging. CommonHealth, another of the network’s most popular sites, has scored some of its biggest audience hits with 4,000-word opuses."
— Matt Thompson, on lessons from NPR’s Project Argo, If We Were Starting NPR’s Project Argo in 2012
