Then the Internet arrived, and the civic discourse shifted, as readers turned to local discussion boards, political blogs and community e-mail lists to talk about the issues affecting them. The newspaper-sanctioned forum grew up, moved out, and became a t
American newspaeprs, which in my day, children, used to crusade. They picked a problem and found a solution and then stacked the deck to take credit for solving it. But at least it got solved. Where did that spirit go?
Kiyoshi Martinez launched AngryJournalist.com, "a gripe board where journalists are asked to say what's making them angry today," reported Steve Outing of Editor & Publisher.
There are various techniques and devices you can use to do that from full blown monitoring of the online world, which is not cheap, but should be well within the budget of any reasonably sized publisher.
Qualitätssteigerung statt Kosteneinsparung: Philip Meyer, Zeitungswissenschaftler und Autor, erklärt, warum er dem wachsenden Online-Journalismus wohlwollend gegenüber steht.
The Dallas Morning News has put up PDFs of the boxloads of documents about the JFK assassination just released and asked the public to help find the stories therein.
Joshua Marshall verfolgte auf seinem Polit-Blog «Talking Points Memo» die undurchsichtige Entlassung von acht der 93 Bundesstaatsanwälten im Jahr 2006.
Der Qualitätsjournalismus wird von Profitgier demontiert. Im Interview spricht Robert Rosenthal über das Gegenkonzept unabhängiger Berichterstattung und seine Absicht aufzurütteln.