Comments on: Talking About A Revolution

By: lovable liberal

lovable liberal — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:55:19 +0000

Buying? Paper? Not important in the coming paradigm, which I call the news stack. The news stack will be layers of content from different sources. Even competitors will have to link to each other until they get their own follow-up stories posted on line.

There will still be real competition for the scoops, though.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:42:38 +0000

Craig,
You make a good point and I think most journalists are, of course, going to want the scoop. I felt though, in this case with flooding in Washington, that it used the mean of working together for that particular story very well.
In Tennessee, I’ve seen a lot of collaboration regarding the TVA coal spill.
Just a new tool to use in certain situations.

By: Craig McGill

Craig McGill — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:31:55 +0000

Yes, it’s a nice tale but that’s four people all with access to the same information, so in essence there’s no scoop or exclusive, so buying one paper covers you.

I can see the uses, but in this day and age of homogenised copy, papers should still be pushing for the scoop – and Twitter collaboration could see it go the other way in parts.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:10:56 +0000

Thanks Jim. I just saw your post. I think this is a big story on news convergence. I guess I’m not the only one.

By: jim voorhies

jim voorhies — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:47:17 +0000

been thinking sorta about this issue and finally posted on it.

By: jimvoorhies.com » Just a crazy idea maybe

jimvoorhies.com » Just a crazy idea maybe — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:46:34 +0000

[...] Something kinda-sorta related to this has been running through the back of my mind a few days. I’ve been wondering what smaller papers will do – not to mention big ones – there’s not enough local stuff going on unless you give everybody on the arrest and divorce lists a paragraph or three and near-local TV stations can scoop almost everyone in conventional media – so small papers are stuck. [...]