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Process vs. Product: Six New-Media Principles, No. 6

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The new-media principles of transparency and openness discussed in my last two posts mean that readers can both see and participate in the process of journalism itself. The downside, of course, is that the process is messy and prone to mistakes. But the benefits of journalism as a process ultimately outweigh the drawbacks.

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Innocent and Malignant Typos and the Case of Filloux v. Jarvis

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In a subsequent attack on Jarvis’s advocacy of process journalism , Filloux says, “personally, I’d rather stick to the quest for perfection rather than embrace the celebration of the ‘process.’” It would undercut even the most thoughtful argument, not just Filloux’s impulsive rant. I would suggest to M.

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Six New-Media Principles: Introduction

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The process over the product. Though not the only ones, the following six new-media preferences are to my mind the most significant: Dialogue over monologue. Collaboration over control. The personal over the corporate. The open over the closed. The transparent over the opaque. Tomorrow I’ll discuss the first, dialogue over monologue.

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Digital Drudgery and Second-Stage Shovelware

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The journalists who object to liveblogging, he suggests, don’t understand that it is process-driven rather than product-driven: “Most journalists think in a goal-driven way. He argues that the criticisms being slung at The Guardian ’s liveblog coverage of the Christchurch earthquake are based in a confusion of print and digital media.

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Transparent vs. Opaque: Six New-Media Principles, No. 5

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Traditional media organizations have tended to be opaque, aiming not to reveal much about the people and processes behind their product. Because one of its foundational ideas is openness, as I described in yesterday’s post , new media encourages and rewards transparency. Transparency doesn’t stop with individuals.

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Is a Blog Just a Container?

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Tags: New-Media Models Social Media blogging new media old-media process journalism publishing models transparency.

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It’s Time to Embrace Editorial as a Profit Center

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Commercial, for-profit publishing is really a process of generating one form of currency—attention—and converting it into another—money—via advertising or subscriptions. The old “profit centers,” advertising sales and subscriptions, aren’t very good at the conversion process anymore. In fact, it is a recipe for publishing’s demise.