To the question “Is the Ash Cloud dangerous to flights?” Charlie Beckett writes that the honest answer is “I don’t know.” Journalism, tasked with sifting through complexity to find answers, is sometimes presented with a situation so chaotic that it defies the possiblity of deriving a correct answer. Beckett points to the eruption of Iceland’s [...]
A single news item is only important to a reader if it makes sense within a larger context. An example An example that journalist Matt Thompson offers up is the torrent of news items about health-care reform. Each item only makes sense if you understand the bigger picture. CUNY Professer Jay Rosen hails an NPR [...]
The Associated Press recently put out a press release saying that over 500 have signed up for their AP Member Marketplace product. Here are a few sites that reported the news: MediaPost gave us four paragraphs sans links. Editor & Publisher wrote a bit more, again with no links. WebProNews linked to the E&P piece [...]
