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Kevin: Amen. More editors need to read this. Yes, just getting anyone and everyone to blog does indicate a lack of a strategy, but that would assume that news organisations act strategically. If only!
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Kevin: My friend and former manager Steve Herrmann goes into the details of how the BBC is getting information out of Burma. It’s a brief summary of how the BBC involves the audience in coverage.
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Kevin: Graham draws attention to a piece on Newsnight from Afghanistan where the journalist chooses to let the subjects tell the story. “I want the players to tell me the story. I wish more journalists would work this way.” Amen.
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Kevin: A case study in entrepreneurship, innovation and risk taking from the “seminal start-up Fairchild Semiconductor”. Some good historical lessons.
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Kevin: Some deep thinking on creating tools for interactive, literary journalism. Watch this space.
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Kevin: Mark Potts looks at the FT.com’s new 30-free-pages a month model and says that business models need more nuance rather than paid versus free.
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Kevin: Paul has some posts on a model for the 21st Century Newsroom. In this post, I like breaking down speed and depth elements.
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Kevin: Paul writes the next installment of his newsroom of the future posts with a look at distributed journalism. His posts work well because of his excellent analysis of changes in media consumption.
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Kevin: Robin has some good tips on getting information from inside Burma. Good tips for getting information out of any heavily controlled country.
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Kevin: Jeff says that trust funding and government funding won’t protect journalists from having to deal with change. “Our challenge is … to answer the question of whether the marketplace will support journalism and how it will do that.”
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Kevin: Google lets new publish tell the spiders what to crawl. The World Editors blog sees it as Google ‘forcing publishers to sign up’. Opportunity or threat?