http://strange.corante.com/2009/10/07/qsotd-journalists-shouldnt-confuse-important-with-simply-urgent Picking out patterns in the chaos Tue, 22 May 2012 22:03:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://strange.corante.com/2009/10/07/qsotd-journalists-shouldnt-confuse-important-with-simply-urgent#comment-7578 links for 2009-10-08 | Joanna Geary Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:01:05 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2009/10/07/qsotd-journalists-shouldnt-confuse-important-with-simply-urgent#comment-7578 [...] Journalists shouldn’t confuse important with simply urgent "I’m not, and I doubt many average news consumers, are suffering from a lack of information, but I do know that many suffer from a lack of context. " (tags: journalism) [...] [...] Journalists shouldn’t confuse important with simply urgent "I’m not, and I doubt many average news consumers, are suffering from a lack of information, but I do know that many suffer from a lack of context. " (tags: journalism) [...]

]]> http://strange.corante.com/2009/10/07/qsotd-journalists-shouldnt-confuse-important-with-simply-urgent#comment-7565 David Worsfold Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:54:49 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2009/10/07/qsotd-journalists-shouldnt-confuse-important-with-simply-urgent#comment-7565 The comment about implications for news obsessed editorial teams was mine. I totally agree with your analysis that news alone is not enough and providing context is essential. Many B2B sites linked to weekly or monthly print brands seem to think that the answer is just to shovel vast quantities of raw news onto their sites for no better reason than just because they can. That has limited value. What we need, and where David Gilbertson is right, is to understand where we can add value. The comment about implications for news obsessed editorial teams was mine. I totally agree with your analysis that news alone is not enough and providing context is essential. Many B2B sites linked to weekly or monthly print brands seem to think that the answer is just to shovel vast quantities of raw news onto their sites for no better reason than just because they can. That has limited value. What we need, and where David Gilbertson is right, is to understand where we can add value.

]]> http://strange.corante.com/2009/10/07/qsotd-journalists-shouldnt-confuse-important-with-simply-urgent#comment-7561 Commentator and summariser… « A Fragment, Unidentified. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:05:22 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2009/10/07/qsotd-journalists-shouldnt-confuse-important-with-simply-urgent#comment-7561 [...] broad themes turned up regularly on Twitter, and among them came a tweet from Adam Tinworth about a Kevin Anderson post that ‘builds an important point out of a few of the less obvious [...] [...] broad themes turned up regularly on Twitter, and among them came a tweet from Adam Tinworth about a Kevin Anderson post that ‘builds an important point out of a few of the less obvious [...]

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