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How can you maintain journalistic integrity by selling the products directly?
by annexrichmond 6y ago
How can you maintain journalistic integrity by selling the products directly?
- Geeek 6y agoJournalistic integrity? Buzzfeed?
- smrtinsert 6y agoBuzzfeed has won awards for its journalism.
- Geeek 6y agoI am well aware of that. But what's their ratio of actual journalism vs the endless trash they put out?
- gruez 6y agobuzzfeed: trash buzfeed news: high quality journalism just stick to the right side and you should be fine.
- elicash 6y agoI agree with you that there was really great work done at BuzzFeed News and find people's dismissiveness to be based on unfamiliarity with a lot of what they've done. I use the past tense only because of the mass layoffs and other cuts they've had.
- bzb3 6y agoHow much is a journalism award worth? Actual question. Two or three years ago your comment verbatim would've been heavily upvoted here. I've seen it posted countless times. Nowadays it's grey. How times change.
- ensignavenger 6y agoThe same way you maintain journalistic integrity when you are collecting money from advertisers- you erect a firewall between the journalists and the sales department. I see no reason why this would be any less effective when selling products directly versus selling advertising to sell products.