MiamiHerald.com: Journalism becoming a consumer product | Martin Stabe

MiamiHerald.com: Journalism becoming a consumer product

Monday, 7 January 2008, 14:10 via del.icio.us/martinstabe

Edward Wasserman: "The problem with online Popularity Pay is it that it mistakes journalism for a consumer product, and conflates value with sales volume. Journalists don't peddle goods, they offer a professional service, a relationship." Read More...

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Lucas Grindley 10 months ago 1 point
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Too bad the entire lead of the column is wrong. I've called for a correction to be issued.

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Martin 10 months ago 1 point
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Lucas is quite right: This column actually misses the point somewhat. Penelope Trunk was not let go because she was not generating enough traffic - it's much worse than that.

According to her own account, the type of content she provided was apparently generating plenty of traffic, but was driving down the total CPM of Yahoo Fiinance.

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