The model of a professional staff reading and fact-checking the work of amateurs is something that newspapers, with their increasingly small staffs and growing inability to connect with readers, should consider. When I was city editor of the Times, we had a hard time figuring out how to cover our huge area. I think something like this would have helped. Full Story »
Posted by Beth Wellington
I wanted to like this article more, but I found that it jumped around too much for me to follow where he was going. The subject matter is important, so I tried to give it another read. I would have enjoyed the post better, it stayed a bit more focused. Overall, good information.
A traditional journalist looks at his experience writing on the side for the independent media and then looks at Off the Bus. What he doesn't consider is that he is recommending that journalism become a caste system which relies of citizen serfs for content.
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