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 Posted: Mon 13:29, 22 Jul 2013 Post subject: media outfits I know |
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media outfits I know, people just pedal as fast as they can with posts spinning out of that work in very simple ways. What you report and analyze, you write. It's hard work, but conceptually easy. The whole process of publishing is stripped down to the essentials. The apparatus doesn't have a lot of costs. OK,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], now for my key point: editors are gears. Without being too mechanistic about the analogy: editors can change the way effort is distributed. They can gear down and have reporters pedal like crazy without posting a ton of stuff. They can throw a bunch of effort at a story so that it can move really quickly. This was really clear during the Boston Marathon bombing coverage. A machine like the Boston Globe can do things that are amazing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in large part because they have a bunch of editors who can direct things. That task is a lot harder in very flat online media organizations that don't have much editorial gearing. This is not an argument about whether online media is better or worse than
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