Rather than pay $180 a year to kvetch on site, readers headed for social networks. Says the editor: “In fact, the very point was to get them, and these comments, off my pages.”
There’s no easy fix for comments, which is why Knight’s spending $4 million on software they hope can fit any newsroom’s needs: “It should be a bunch of parts that you can assemble and reassemble.”
Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Google’s content farm crackdown, Facebook’s new comments, more TBD lessons." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 4 Mar. 2011. Web. 24 Apr. 2024.
APA
Coddington, M. (2011, Mar. 4). This Week in Review: Google’s content farm crackdown, Facebook’s new comments, more TBD lessons. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/this-week-in-review-googles-content-farm-crackdown-facebooks-new-comments-more-tbd-lessons/
Chicago
Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Google’s content farm crackdown, Facebook’s new comments, more TBD lessons." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 4, 2011. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2011/03/this-week-in-review-googles-content-farm-crackdown-facebooks-new-comments-more-tbd-lessons/.
Wikipedia
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