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currybetdotnet: The tyranny of chronology: Part 2 – On the subject of topics

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Martin Belam: "One of the consequences of [news organisations'] focus on chronology is that when our children want to do research on topics that news organisations have produced acres of coverage of, they find themselves turning to Google and Wikipedia, not The Times and the BBC."

Media Guardian: Re-inventing journalism in London

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"A lot of journalists are fighting their IT departments, with rubbish CMSes and stuff like this," [Mark Ng] said, but he wants journalists to "meet developers who want to build stuff that is good and does interesting things". "There are a lot of developers who believe in decent news media and believe it is important to democracy," Ng said.