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Filloux: Economic value lies in original journalism, not live tweeting or blogging

avatar by Published June 20, 2011 3:02 pm Updated June 20, 2011 3:16 pm

Monday Note
Frederic Filloux continues his exchange with Jeff Jarvis over the importance of articles vs. live news coverage such as tweeting and blogging. It started with Jarvis’ post a few weeks ago suggesting that articles are sometimes unnecessary byproducts of the journalism process. In Filloux’s latest post, he writes, “As great as they are from a user standpoint, live blogging / tweeting, crowdsourcing and hosting ‘experts’ blogs bring very little money – if any, to the news organization that operates them.” True economic value, he writes, comes from works of original journalism. Moreover, Filloux contends that “process journalism” can encourage mediocrity: “It’s one thing to acknowledge live reporting or covering developing stories bear the risk of factual errors. But it is another to defend inaccuracies as a journalistic genre.” || Related: The news article is breaking up.

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    The surprise to me at Mission Loc@l is that when community meeting stories are well done and give the reader a sense that they are actually experiencing the meeting.

  • http://www.thepomoblog.com Terry Heaton

    What really bothers me about this is the assumption that real time and articles are mutually exclusive. Dead wrong.

  • Lydia Chavez

    I couldn’t agree more with Filloux. The surprise to me at Mission Loc@l is that when community meeting stories are well done and give the reader a sense that they are actually experiencing the meeting – albeit in a shorter form than having to sit through the entire ordeal – readers appear to enjoy the back and forth.  Heather Smith, a reporter here, has changed the way I teach meeting coverage.  Here’s an example from a meeting last fall. http://missionlocal.org/2010/09/notes-from-the-dolores-park-meeting-fix-the-park-without-changing-anything/ . You could argue that this is indulgently hyperlocal, but if it engages readers enough in the process, then so be it. Best, Lydia Chavez, editor, Mission Loc@l:disqus