“ Despite the competitive sense of journalism in which people are vying with each other to get the scoop, we had an instance here to recognize that there was enough scoopish material to get around. The first to get the documents up and make it accessible to the public, that was a scoop of a different kind.”
Mother Jones’ David Corn, on he different types of bounties within a room full of physical documents (in this case, Palin’s emails).
As we become a world of broadband connections and ubiquitous capture devices, journalism will continue to fragment. There seems to be three discipline’s emerging: the scoop, the fieldwork, the cellphone snap or leaked document; editorial to filter the deluge; and analysis to parse the meaning. (Via The Atlantic Wire)
Source: theatlanticwire.com
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