For Monday, March 3, 2014, here are some media stories of note:
Dean Starkman, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review, identifies what he argues is the consensus view on journalism's future. Among them: paywalls are necessary but not a panacea for serious news organizations; the traditional news story retains its primacy; crowdsourcing has its place, but not a substantial one; coverage of state and local governments has suffered and is appalling.
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The situation in the Ukraine poses immense challenges for foreign reporting, but there is no small distress for domestic journalists, either. Masked gunmen broke into and seized the Crimean Investigative Journalism Center. No one was injured, but the center no longer is functioning at its office.
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PandoDaily last week wrote that First Look Media founder Pierre Omidyar had been supplying support to Ukrainian groups opposed to the government. That set off a slanging match with Glenn Greenwald, who noted this was not any grand revelation and that, more importantly, this was not any big deal, in that his journalism was unfettered. Jeff Jarvis, meanwhile, weighed in by declaring First Look could help itself by being less defensive and more assertive in this space. It should declare its principles to assure its audience. Others indicate, though, that Greenwald has already done that.
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Dean Starkman, writing for the Columbia Journalism Review, identifies what he argues is the consensus view on journalism's future. Among them: paywalls are necessary but not a panacea for serious news organizations; the traditional news story retains its primacy; crowdsourcing has its place, but not a substantial one; coverage of state and local governments has suffered and is appalling.
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The situation in the Ukraine poses immense challenges for foreign reporting, but there is no small distress for domestic journalists, either. Masked gunmen broke into and seized the Crimean Investigative Journalism Center. No one was injured, but the center no longer is functioning at its office.
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PandoDaily last week wrote that First Look Media founder Pierre Omidyar had been supplying support to Ukrainian groups opposed to the government. That set off a slanging match with Glenn Greenwald, who noted this was not any grand revelation and that, more importantly, this was not any big deal, in that his journalism was unfettered. Jeff Jarvis, meanwhile, weighed in by declaring First Look could help itself by being less defensive and more assertive in this space. It should declare its principles to assure its audience. Others indicate, though, that Greenwald has already done that.
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