{"id":747,"date":"2007-12-14T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2007-12-14T05:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T11:20:00","slug":"the-new-rules-of-journalism-gawker-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/12\/the-new-rules-of-journalism-gawker-style\/","title":{"rendered":"The new rules of journalism: Gawker style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span> love <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/news\/jobs\/gawkercom-is-hiring-333413.php\">this job ad<\/a> from <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Gawker<\/span>, detailing what it means by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">journalism<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blogs such as <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gawker<\/span> won\u2019t be running 5,000-word-long features any time soon, nor giving writers weeks to investigate. But the web\u2014other blogs, search engines and social network sites\u2014increasingly rewards original items. So we\u2019re looking for an additional reporter for the team.<\/p>\n<p>At its most basic, the reporting may at times be little more than value-added blogging: a story in the news, put in context with a quick Nexis search, and deconstructed. <\/p>\n<p>At its most elevated, the new <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gawker<\/span> hire may experiment with a new form of reporting, unique to online, in which ideas are floated, appeals made to the readers, and the story assembled over the course of several items, from speculation, and tips from users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And note too, dismissive student types, they like <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">RSS<\/span> readers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this job ad from Gawker, detailing what it means by journalism: Blogs such as Gawker won\u2019t be running 5,000-word-long features any time soon, nor giving writers weeks to investigate. But the web\u2014other blogs, search engines and social network sites\u2014increasingly rewards original items. So we\u2019re looking for an additional reporter for the team. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}