Data journalism gone rogue!

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

what about stories with high content and few readers? Wot of investigative journalism?  Metrics capturing short attention spans and propagating short news cycles!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/business/media/risks-abound-as-reporters-play-in-traffic.html?emc=edit_th_20140324&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=58777860

what do the journalists on the list think?

Cheers
t

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[Russell McOrmond-4]

On Mar 29, 2014 4:07 PM, "Tracey P. Lauriault" <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> what about stories with high content and few readers? Wot of investigative journalism?  Metrics capturing short attention spans and propagating short news cycles!
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/business/media/risks-abound-as-reporters-play-in-traffic.html?emc=edit_th_20140324&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=58777860

Isn't this an inevitable outcome of news being paid for by advertising?  This "reality tv" version of news is part of why I don't watch/listen/read most commercial news, and why I pay subscription to specialized news services (Hill Times, etc).

I read some of the stuff online, but only when someone I trust forwards and pre-filters out the worst of it.

The days of news being a requirement of a broadcast license and not advertiser driven is unfortunately gone.

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