All entries tagged: storytelling

Google News experimenting with links to Wikipedia on its homepage

The discrete news article, it has been said, is a framework that worked well in print but doesn’t make much sense on the web. News sites can offer context in a variety of ways that explode the story model, from visualizations to comment threads to what might be called the Wikipedia model of news. No, [...]

Mixing it up in the comments

A typically smart piece from Mindy McAdams on the emotional relationship between reporters and their readers, and on the demise of “story.”
On the first point, I think she gets at something important about why so many reporters react in horror at the comments left on their stories. Reporters feel powerless when their work is attacked [...]

No comments | Posted by Joshua Benton | October 17, 2008 | 2:54 pm

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