Is The 'Digital Future' 'The Most Stunning Example...Of What Is Wrong With Print Journalism Today'?
Fighting words from Detroit’s MetroTimes, the city’s alt-weekly, which got a copy of a memo from an editor who works for the Journal Register Company (they of open newsrooms and Project Thunderdome) talking about the newspaper’s digital strategy.
The editor asked reporters to, any time they cover a story:
- crowdsource the topic beforehand
- share relevant documentation with readers ahead of time
- check in on Foursquare and post relevant tweets or FB updates
- Shoot video of the event
- Write a breaking news version of the event and then post a more thoughtful story later, and promote both with social media
- Host a live chat about the story
This “is the single most stunning example I’ve ever seen of what is wrong with print journalism today,” MetroNews’s Jack Lessenberry, the paper’s contributing editor, wrote.
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