“Do what you do best and link to the rest”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“TV news — especially local TV news — sucks. It favors heat over light. It repeats much, saying little. It goes overboard on weather, sticking rulers in the snow to show how it grows or standing in the wind to prove it blows. It adores fires — which, though terrible for those in their path, usually affect few — because TV news values video über alles. It delivers BREAKING NEWS that isn’t breaking at all but is too often long-over, repetitive, obvious, or trivial.”
― 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
“Mobile isn’t just another content-delivery mechanism. Don’t try to be mobile first. Be user first. Context over content, that’s the lesson of mobile.”
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
― Geeks Bearing Gifts: Imagining New Futures for News
“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
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