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Reporter Failure, Editor Failure, or Tool Failure?

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Fine to use the Internet for some basic research, or in a pinch to e-mail a source for a comment, but it’s faster and often better to call. But Pexton’s suggestion that the Internet is only good for basic research or as a last resort is wrong too. Related posts: Social Media and Ethics: An Interview with B2B Editor Maureen Alley.

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Digital Drudgery and Second-Stage Shovelware

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In a post earlier this month, I raised the sensitive question of whether legacy print journalists might be unduly worried about the workload involved in social media. “The internet does not possess this quality. Nothing on the internet has to be finished. The page was set, the presses rolled, the story concluded.

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Be Yourself. Just Not Your Real Self: Scripps’ Muddled Social Media Policy

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If you need any confirmation that legacy publishers just don’t get social media, give the new social media policy from E.W. Now go out there and kick some social media ass.”. Be professional, it urges, then immediately adds that “the Internet has blurred the line between public and private, personal and professional.”

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Dialogue vs. Monologue: Six New-Media Principles, No. 1

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Today, for anyone who’s thought much about social media, it verges dangerously on being trite. Before the Internet, journalism was largely a one-way form of communication. What’s more, they can now be publishers themselves, whether through their own blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or other forms of social media.

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Social Media and the Decline of Editing

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Blogger Mark Schaefer wonders , for instance, “why newspapers, who have so staunchly defended the integrity of the published word, would suddenly open the floodgates of stupidity just because the forum has moved to the Internet.&#. Tags: Editing New-Media Models Social Media Jeff Jarvis new media old-media. Comments, anyone?

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Thanks to Social Media, I No Longer Mistake Terrorists for Water Dispensers

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In the social media era, it’s getting harder and harder for us to slip out of an awareness of the world. But text messaging was in its infancy, and the social web was yet to be born. But of course it was true, and we spent the rest of that horrifying day watching TV and scouring the internet. My wife and I still rarely watch TV.

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Paul Conley: Has the Content Marketing Dream Become a Nightmare?

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.” He was among the first in the trade press to recognize the significance of social media. As early as 1996, not long after the birth of the World Wide Web, he founded a business-to-business internet news service.