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MEDIA & JOURNALISM
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Interesting articles on the evolution of news in the digital age.
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Saved by 9 people (1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-03-30
- Pdryan on 2008-06-13 - Tags techcrunch , blogging , Journalism , media , technology , web2.0
- Ebarney on 2008-03-31 - Tags technology , blogs
- Kolson29 on 2008-03-31 - Tags blogging , journalism , schonfeld , techcrunch
- Plinan on 2008-03-31 - Tags no_tag
- Imrchen on 2008-03-31 - Tags InternetWatch , Journalism , social media , toread
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So what is the TechCrunch formula? It is hard to say other than obsession. The main TechCrunch blog is written by four of us—Michael, Duncan, Mark, and me.
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When not traveling, Michael and Mark write from California, Duncan writes from Australia, and I write from New York.
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The truth is that we are both. We compete with traditional news organizations, but with a small fraction of their staff. That is our competitive advantage. We certainly cover the news and do original reporting, but we also discuss news reported by others and are not shy about voicing our personal opinions. We are as much a filter as a source.
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There is something about blogging—the immediacy, the give and take, the point of view—that helps it compete with traditional media for attention.
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Because what is a blog? It is a conversation with readers. And you don’t have to start a conversation knowing all the facts. But it helps if you end up with more than you start out with, and if you turn out to be right more often than wrong. Otherwise, people will stop listening to you—the same as they would with any media source.
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TechCrunch’s success, to me, is focusing on 2 things and doing them better than others: 1) breaking important news and 2) offering unique perspectives.
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A successful blog has a fine blend of seriousness and fun, and Mr. Arrington apparently knows the art of it.
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I’ve been following TechCrunch ever since Scoble brought Arrington and that guy from Kotaku to meet with Bill Gates. I remember saying, “Who’s that guy with the chubby cheeks?”
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What you now have are snotty, insolent people without any background in the humanities whatsoever, without some kind of apprenticed news judgement, merely raised on the Internet and often cloaked in anonymity, able to make everybody read Wikipedia, run by anonymous elitists without accountability, and drop any meme they like into the well.
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