Quotable
Journalistic bias at nonprofits
… journalistic bias is a function of human intention, not the business model under which the story is produced. For-profit, nonprofit, it does not matter. If a reporter or editor has an axe to grind, he or she is going to find a venue to grind it.
— Jim Barnett writing on his blog, The Nonprofit Road
Are bloggers journalists?
There are people in the States right now tying themselves into knots, trying to figure out whether or not bloggers are journalists. And the answer to that question is, it doesn’t matter, because that’s not the right question. Journalism was an answer to an even more important question, which is, how will society be informed? How will they share ideas and opinions? And if there is an answer to that that happens outside the professional framework of journalism, it makes no sense to take a professional metaphor and apply it to this distributed class.
— Clay Shirky speaking at a TED Talks event on the net’s collaborative culture
About the transformation of media
Contradictions, confusions, and multiple perspectives should be anticipated at a moment of transition where one media paradigm is dying and another is being born. None of us really knows how to live in this era of media convergence, collective intelligence and participatory culture. These changes are producing anxieties and uncertainties, even panic, as people imagine a world without gatekeepers and live with the reality of expanding corporate power.
— Henry Jenkins writing in Convergence Culture, Where Old and New Media Collide
On the power of a tweet
I’m amazed (and scared) at the power of one tweet to drive this much coverage.
— Mark Glaser executive editor of PBS Media Shift, commenting about the slew of coverage brought on by his tweet hinting at a looming purchase of a prominent online company
Not all online content producers are journalists
The popular claim that ‘we are all journalists now’ must be refuted; perhaps we are all producers of online content, but the great values associated with journalism must be nurtured to ensure the high quality reporting that a thriving democracy has the right to expect.
— Ernest Wilson, Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in a piece for Poynter, “Where are J-Schools in Great Debate over Journalism’s Future?”
Data is definitely journalism
It’s a hot topic among journalists right now: Is data journalism? Is it journalism to publish a raw database? Here, at last, is the definitive, two-part answer: 1. Who cares? 2. I hope my competitors waste their time arguing about this as long as possible.
— Adrian Holovaty, founder of EveryBlock.com, in a post on his personal blog
Misperceptions of free
Free is perhaps the most misunderstood four-letter word beginning with F in the English language.
— Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine discussing his book Free: The Future of a Radical Price with Charlie Rose
News if newspapers never existed
If Mr. Gutenberg had come up with the Internet instead of movable type back in the late 15th century and for 400 years we had used the Internet for news and all types of entertainment and all kinds of everything else and I came along one day and said I have got this wonderful idea: We are going to chop down some trees up in Canada and ship them to a paper mill, which will cost us a fortune to run through and deliver newsprint, and then we’ll have a whole bunch of people staying up all night writing up things and then we’ll send a bunch of kids out the next day all over town delivering this thing and we are going to really wipe out the Internet with this is, it ain’t going to happen.
— Warren Buffett
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