the role of news in an era of overload
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the role of news IN THE ERA OF OVERLOAD
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MATT THOMPSON EDITORIAL PRODUCT MANAGER,
NPR’s Project Argo
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TWO
PARABLES
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I: A tale of two scandals.
Watergate Enron v.
ladouceur78 / Flickr alex-s / Flickr
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The Watergate Hotel - Noah Kalina / Flickr
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FORTUNE, 3/5/01
The column that felled Enron
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from information scarcity …
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… to information overload
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II. The classic editor
RAIJSI / Flickr
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The water cooler effect in reverse
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ARTHUR MILLER, 1961
A good newspaper,
I suppose, is a
NATION
TALKING TO ITSELF
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TweetDeck
But that’s already happening…
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There is a new profession of
TRAIL BLAZERS – those who find delight in the task of
establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.
VANNEVAR BUSH, 1945
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Nobody is looking for another thing to read.
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FELIX SALMON, 2010
The biggest shortage in journalism right now isn’t good writers, or even enlightened proprietors willing to fund investigations.
IT’S CRITICAL
READERS.
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Step 1:
MASTER THE CONVERSATION.
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Talking Points Memo
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not a series of isolated dispatches.
A STREAM.
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Step 2:
NURTURE THE CONVERSATION.
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traditional reporting is about building a
ROLODEX
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tomorrow’s reporting is about building a
NETWORK
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turn sources into commenters
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WBUR’s CommonHealth
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… cont’d.
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Step 3:
EXTEND THE CONVERSATION.
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you have to go where the
conversation is
before you can go
where it isn’t
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FORTUNE, 3/5/01
The column that felled Enron
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Vanity Fair’s Bethany McLean was also at the breakfast, and she confirmed that the blogosphere is a goldmine for people like her who want to understand the [financial] crisis.
FELIX SALMON, 2010
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Imagine an alternate history
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