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Journalism, Aggregation, and Doing Things with Words

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The last is Aaron Bady’s deeply analytical post on zunguzungu. Once we shift our analytical lens from the domain of rhetoric to the domain of practice, the complexity of the distinction between aggregation and original reporting becomes even more tangled.&#. Bady does not argue that there aren’t distinctions worth making. But (as J.

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We’ve Got Algorithms. Who Needs Editors?

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Using Web analytics from a test period to automatically choose between two headlines, as we’re told the Huffington Post does for its stories , can make sense—if both versions are true to the content. If you balance crowd-sourced feedback with the content creator’s point of view, you’ll have a productive conversation.

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