tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10847733.post4438535498033378916..comments2023-10-26T03:49:14.799-07:00Comments on Ghost Word: Former Reporters Now Give Away Their Expertise for FreeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10847733.post-36435676335543990922009-03-24T04:08:00.000-07:002009-03-24T04:08:00.000-07:00Shameless plug for my wife, Lori Korleski, a forme...Shameless plug for my wife, Lori Korleski, a former features editor at the Sacramento Bee who took a buy-out. She is doing a blog of food:<BR/>http://lkcafe.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10847733.post-61897771286360995932009-03-23T05:41:00.000-07:002009-03-23T05:41:00.000-07:00Very interesting list of blogs run by laid off and...Very interesting list of blogs run by laid off and bought out journalists. Just wondering if your ran across anyone who is able to pay their bills doing this, or is it all an altruistic endeavor?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10847733.post-36042883436878858762009-03-20T22:12:00.000-07:002009-03-20T22:12:00.000-07:00I wasn't trying to make an argument about all the ...I wasn't trying to make an argument about all the work that is posted to the web. I was merely examining the work that these former reporters are doing and I concluded that most of the work is entertaining, but not necessarily profound. However, I do think a lot of the stuff that passes for breaking news or journalism on the web does not really meet strict quality standards.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00841865048085425498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10847733.post-87894185420752269212009-03-20T16:35:00.000-07:002009-03-20T16:35:00.000-07:00Professional journalists aren't always the origina...Professional journalists aren't always the originators of some of the best new work, but that's a distinction without merit, to my mind. <BR/><BR/>There are all sorts of people "committing journalism", even if they don't describe themselves that way. I'm not thinking of Mayhill Fowler types, but of techies, judges, economists, financiers, and on and on, who are publishing directly. <BR/><BR/>NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen refers to "the people formerly known as the audience". That captures part of it. It's more, as Dave Winer notes, that sources can now go direct. <BR/><BR/>The issue becomes, in my thinking, not who does the journalism. We already have an explosion of journalism. It's how readers navigate through it without the formerly trusted editors.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07966354773863076633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10847733.post-31848139566057296102009-03-20T16:20:00.000-07:002009-03-20T16:20:00.000-07:00Yes you are right. In the whole, though, most repo...Yes you are right. In the whole, though, most reporter/blogger sites aren't as well researched or as relevant as the work these same reporters did for newspapers. For most bloggers, there is little to no money in the endeavor.Franceshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00841865048085425498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10847733.post-15700456744252860782009-03-20T16:14:00.000-07:002009-03-20T16:14:00.000-07:00I'm not sure whether any of the sites you mention ...I'm not sure whether any of the sites you mention have broken any news, but there are plenty of blogs that are breaking news. <BR/><BR/>In the two areas which have been colonized most rapidly by blogs -- technology and politics -- there is a high volume of original reporting and investigation. Some of the sites have even made the transition from being a free labor of love into money-making enterprises.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07966354773863076633noreply@blogger.com