“Note well that investigative journalism springs mostly from two sources: whistleblowers’ leaks and beat reporters’ expertise.”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“A few people in a basement room take the best of that service and repackage it, freeze-drying it for print. Print becomes a promotional vehicle for the brand’s online services and a supplier of cash flow to subsidize research and development. That”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“I’d like to see every news organization, large and small, newspaper and blog, sponsor FOIA clubs in their communities to get scores, hundreds, thousands of citizens helping to open up data.”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“Once the industry has been pared to its essence and its essentials, once we determine what matters most and needs protection, once we find the means to support that work, then journalism can grow again.”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“journalism that matters, arguing that if it is not advocacy, it is not journalism — that is, if it does not strive to have a positive impact on the lives of citizens, then it is not journalism.”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
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