ReadWriteWeb: Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source
Tuesday, 16 March 2010, 07:51
"Moka Pantages, the communications officer for the WikiMedia Foundation … discuss[ed] how the Wikipedia community addressed the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai. … by the end of the first day of the Wikipedia article's life, it had been edited more than 360 times, by 70 different editors referring to 28 separate sources from news outlets around the web. … 'There's no real-time reporting going on in Wikipedia, it's real-time aggregation,' Pantages said. So the very first level of information vetting, which happens at the reporting level, has already taken place by the time it reaches the site."
open Democracy: Journalism’s many crises
Saturday, 23 May 2009, 14:56
Todd Gitlin: "Four wolves have arrived at the door of American journalism simultaneously while a fifth has already been lurking for some time. One is the precipitous decline in the circulation of newspapers. The second is the decline in advertising revenue, which, combined with the first, has badly damaged the profitability of newspapers. The third, contributing to the first, is the diffusion of attention. The fourth is the more elusive crisis of authority. The fifth, a perennial – so much so as to be perhaps a condition more than a crisis – is journalism’s inability or unwillingness to penetrate the veil of obfuscation behind which power conducts its risky business. "
Guardian: What, exactly, is the PCC for?
Monday, 9 February 2009, 13:47
Peter Wilby: "Big American newspapers and magazines go to immense lengths to report responsibly and accurately, demanding multiple sources for stories, employing fact-checkers and making public apologies when, for example, they got it wrong over WMDs in Iraq. That hasn't saved them from circulation declines that are, if anything, steeper than those of Fleet Street. Nor has it saved them from the distrust of many Americans, with the right particularly accusing them of being parties to a liberal conspiracy."
News Credit: Making news more transparent
Friday, 2 January 2009, 14:04
"News credit uses microformats with some specific enhancements to allow journalists, and those producing journalism, to embed basic information to their news articles online which can help the public establish an article’s authorship and provenance. This information is not pejorative or judgmental, rather the basic who, what, when and where of a news article. The equivalent, if you like, of ingredients of the side of a food packet – giving people the information they need to enable them to make informed choices."
Wednesday, 21 May 2008, 18:56
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"There still seems to be an assumption amongst ‘proper’ journalists that anyone who blogs is doing so because they want to be a journalist. This is demonstrably untrue."
Friday, 2 May 2008, 19:51
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Martin Belam: "For someone who mostly makes her living writing opinion pieces, [Yasmin Alibhai-Brown] skates on thin ice when she basically dismisses anyone else who writes self-taught opinion on the basis that they do it outside the old mainstream media
Sunday, 11 November 2007, 10:15
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"Trust, as copiously debated over three days by the Society of Editors, is specific, not general."
Friday, 6 July 2007, 10:57
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"The public’s trust in TV news has dropped dramatically since 2002, according to new research from Ofcom."
