Comments on: Media 2.0 – what’s off the table

By: twawki

twawki — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:49:29 +0000

There is no such thing as investigative journalism anymore – it is now pay AP for the rights to rerun their stories. And news is giving way to entertainment.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:15:39 +0000

Jason, you have been very quiet about Andrew Landeryou’s claim that you swiped a story from Vexnews, getting it wrong in the retelling. So what’s the truth of the tale?

By: Jason Whittaker

Jason Whittaker — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:23:29 +0000

Ahh…

I still AM the Deputy Editor of Crikey, Frank.

This blog post was written some time before I took up the post in February.

So…not quite sure what your point is. But thanks for reading.

By: Frank Campbell

Frank Campbell — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:33:33 +0000

You appear to be off the table, Jason. Weren’t you Deputy Ed of Crikey last week? Airbrushed from history? Perhaps this is the ultimate meaning of journalistic transparency…

By: Brenda Tucker

Brenda Tucker — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:07:59 +0000

I need journalists. I have been wooing journalists, ghost writers, or team members who see the need I feel to contact members of our society who can make decisions and take action based on my work and a new idea that I’ve worked on introducing to “especially” those who engage in the creation-evolution debate.

Part of the process is dealing with the struggle, but I still feel that my media skills are extremely limited and that I have so little opportunity for contact with professionals.

How can I get this story heard? (Search girasas.)

By: Ashlee

Ashlee — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:46:47 +0000

I totally agree with this list, especially number 1. Recently I had a batch of otherwise very capable university interns who treated me like an ‘old skool’ media fool (i’m 24, by the way…) because I told them off for editorializing in news and feature stories instead of doing more interviews to back up their story. They were arguing that this is new media and the lines should be blurrier. No kids (most of whom were older than me), it’s sloppy writing, it confuses the audience. It needs to be clear — is this reporting or is this opinion? There’s nothing ‘new media’ about unattributed muddy news writing. Some dodgy tabloids have been serving it up for a long time… it doesn’t make it a good thing.

I think I’d like to add ethics to this list. While we all know they are often blurry as hell, codes of conduct and acceptable reporting guidelines were developed for many reasons. As the shape of professional journalism shifts and the definition of journalist changes, I really hope that the notion of ethical reporting doesn’t vanish.