This is a good piece. Amazing that Gannett can't figure out why people aren't reading any longer. But hey, we're not going to tell them.
For instance:
By March 2006, the pieces were in place. The Web was to become the primary vehicle for news, with frequent, round-the-clock updates. The newsroom would be rechristened the Information Center, while traditional departments like Metro and Business would give way to the Digital and Community Conversation desks. Photographers would be trained to shoot video, which would be posted online. Investigations would no longer be conducted by a coven of professionals working in secret. Instead, they'd be crowdsourced — farmed out to readers who'd join in the detective work. Gannett papers would also become repositories of local information, spilling over with data about everything from potholes to public officials' salaries. "We must mix our content with professional journalism and amateur contributions," read one of the PowerPoint slides prepared by Gannett execs. "The future is pro-am."
Do they realy think crowdsourcing is going to solve their problems???
Aug 06, 07 | 6:06 pm
Ironghost
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Crowdsourcing: Because there is such wisdom in crowds, right?
Heh.
Aug 30, 07 | 3:54 pm
ladd
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Yeah, here's another one. Get this:
The initiative emphasizes four goals: Prioritize local news over national news; publish more user-generated content; become 24-7 news operations, in which the newspapers do less and the websites do much more; and finally, use crowdsourcing methods to put readers to work as watchdogs, whistle-blowers and researchers in large, investigative features.
I am ROTFLMAO at the thought that The Clarion-Ledger could figure out how to use readers to help them investigate anything. They have a hard enough figuring out how to use their reporters to do such a thing.
Also, can something tell me how the Ledger's print product could "do less"? Adam Lynch singlehandedly beats their rump every day right here on our Web site.
Remember, we're talking about a paper that couldn't figure out that the Ridgeway demolition was news fit to print.
Aug 30, 07 | 4:06 pm
Ironghost
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This is the paper, that if it wern't for Marshall Ramsey, they'd lose about a large chunk of their web-traffic. The rest of the paper certainly isn't worth reading.
Aug 30, 07 | 4:16 pm
ladd
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Yeah, their forums tickle me the most, I think. What "crowdsourcing" means over there seems to be gathering together people who get kicked off other sites for being nasty showing up and whining to each other about they are oh-so-wronged because they are forced to play by rules of civility. ;-)
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