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The Limits of Citizen Journalism: dropping the ‘Wiki-‘ in Wikileaks
For anyone interested in exploring the limits of citizen journalistic enterprise, and the economics of investigative reporting, there’s interesting news about whistle-blowing site, Wikileaks. Wikileaks is planning to drop the wiki model entirely. In the future, it plans to pre-release selected documents to investigative journalists, then publish them once a story appears. That gives the…
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My favourite Julian Manyon story
Everyone has one. I have one that’s repeatable. Julian was the reporter who got the hair-dryer treatment from Robert Mugabe in Sharm el-Sheik. Julian can take it. He’s a former colleague and most decidedly not a pack operator. Let’s just say he doesn’t rely on favours from competitors to get the job done.
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links for 2008-07-02
Developing slow news: the Telegraph Lloyd Shepherd on how news sites perform on depth (tags: depth news newspapers new-media slow-news) Hulu: A Consumer Success But Still A Small Business Hulu is a sexy Internet video service, but a thin-margin, tough business. (tags: hulu nbc news-corp video online internet) The Truth About The Truth | Newsweek.com…
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Public relations: pros and cons of the open-door policy
Jonathan Rauch, writing about GM’s electric car project – the Volt – has an excellent example of the PR risks that go with an open-door media policy (a strategy that almost all journalists would advocate). Rauch locates his own piece within GM’s public relations strategy (in the print edition there’s an ad for the Volt,…