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My presentation for Poynter's Social Media Day.TRANSCRIPT
from STORIESto STREAMSTHE EVOLUTION OF THE BEAT
TWOPARABLES
I: A tale of two scandals.
Watergate Enronv.
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The Watergate Hotel - Noah Kalina / Flickr
FORTUNE, 3/5/01
The column that felled Enron
from information scarcity …
… to information overload
II. The classic editor
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The water cooler effect in reverse
ARTHUR MILLER, 1961
A good newspaper,
I suppose, is a NATION TALKING TO ITSELF
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But that’s already happening…
so what does a good journalist
do now?
There is a new profession of
TRAIL BLAZERS – those who find delight in the task of
establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.
VANNEVAR BUSH, 1945
Nobody is looking for another thing to read.
FELIX SALMON, 2010
The biggest shortage in journalism right now
isn’t good writers, or even enlightened proprietorswilling to fund investigations.
IT’S CRITICAL READERS.
Step 1:MASTER THE
CONVERSATION.
Talking Points Memo
tell us everything we need to knowabout something
draw patternsconnect dotsbuild context
not a series of isolated dispatches.
A STREAM.
Step 2:NURTURE THE
CONVERSATION.
traditional reportingis about building a
ROLODEX
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a b c d e f
tomorrow’s reportingis about building aNETWORK
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A B C D E
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e f
turn sources into commenters
WBUR’s CommonHealth
… cont’d.
Step 3:EXTEND THE
CONVERSATION.
you have to go where the
conversation isbefore you can gowhere it isn’t
FORTUNE, 3/5/01
The column that felled Enron
Vanity Fair’s Bethany McLeanwas also at the breakfast, and she confirmed that
the blogosphere is a goldminefor people like her who wantto understand the [financial] crisis.
FELIX SALMON, 2010
Imagine an alternate history
