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i found this bit really depressing: > Our technology group tends to work thematically, meaning that we try to focus on how tech is changing our readers’ work
by zem 11y ago
i found this bit really depressing:
> Our technology group tends to work thematically, meaning that we try to focus on how tech is changing our readers’ work and personal lives. Google is the main focus of my reporting, and it is a brutally competitive beat. It takes me an hour to go through the day’s headlines each morning, and there are dozens of competitors and talented journalists on the tech beat. That means I’m often scooped, and the scrum of daily news can make it hard to see the bigger picture.
if the new york times cannot take an extra day or two to get a good, comprehensive and well-put-together story without worrying about the churning techblogs scooping them, who can? there has to be space for slower-moving newspaper articles, without having to fall all the way back to magazines.
- softawre 11y agoThe Guardian for one? I agree it's becoming more rare to see real journalism, and that's sad...which is why it's important to point out the ones who still do it.
- frandroid 11y agoHuh, what were the aforementioned profile and this article if not slower-moving, step-back perspective type articles?
- zem 11y agoagreed, but it also referred to his google coverage being constantly subject to pressure of getting scooped. my point was that an nyt writer should not care if someone beats them to a story, they if anyone should have the luxury to trust that their readership would rather see a well-researched story than a breaking one.
- frandroid 11y agoThey're in the news business, so scoops are always a huge driver, especially so with online news where the publication with a scoop with get a disproportionate number of PVs on a story. The NYT doesn't get to escape from that logic; it just gets to play on both slow/smart and fast/quick hit grounds.
- rajacombinator 11y ago> who can? there's still demand for quality investigative journalism, it just has to be right-sized away from bloated megacorps.
- kuschku 11y agoThe SPIEGEL can. But they are only a weekly magazine, and get almost all their readers through permanent subscriptions. (And like most newspapers, they have a handful of people standing everywhere on university campuses, trying to sell people subscriptions)
- dmichulke 11y agoNote that the crew working there is different from the www.spiegel.de crew and the quality of the weekly magazine is said to be much better (I am not a subscriber though)
- TrevorJ 11y agoThe whole business model of journalism seems broken. I'd love to see a crowd-funded journalism portal that takes the 'patreon' model and extends it to a stable of well-trained independent journalists and provides them with an overall support structure of editorial oversight, illustration & layout support, etc, etc. In place of advertisement, the portal could run their own messaging to fund various initiatives (raise x amount in order to bring on a tech reporter for x number of articles a year, etc, etc). Users could choose to fund specific reporters at x amount per month, or just donate directly to the portal for day-to-day operational expenses.
- SandersAK 11y agoThere is that: http://beaconreader.com http://beaconreader.com caveat: i'm one of the founders.
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- TrevorJ 11y agoOh wow, that's awesome! How has it been going so far? Looks like you have some momentum, what were some of the biggest challenges to overcome?
- corybrown 11y agoThe New Yorker consistently has in depth articles that are well researched and fact checked.
- fortes 11y ago+1. New Yorker is great.
- fludlight 11y agoThis exists via Bloomberg. Their $26k p.a. terminals subsidize the journalism. I haven't found another general interest news org whose journalists take the time to actually understand the industry they cover. One could argue that it's run by a billionaire politician, yet it stays much less partisan than say, the NYT. That said, these days the best content comes from single-beat sources.