Charity or collaboration?
The New York Times has accepted free stories from ProPublica. It has endorsed a journalist getting help from the public via Spot.US to underwrite a story that might appear at NYTimes.com. And Poynter’s Bill Mitchell says the paper is even wondering about foundation support for its work (but for perspective, I suspect one could safely Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins - via Jeff Jarvis
We should not minimize the editorial input that comes from knowing the slant of the reporter and the knowledge base of the reporter. Many inputs are great, but if there is not a level of comfort with the honesty of presentation, we will lose news and only have opinion.