“Our favorite thing is to be able to see people start conversations among themselves without us participating at all. That’s the kind of space we want to build.”
“From a purely intellectual, journalistic standpoint, what I think is most fascinating about this is that everybody is more or less covering the same thing, but from their own unique media perspective.”
Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get.
“Instead of asking you to come to us and be part of this massive room of people shouting over each other, you can bring us to you, and have us be, essentially, one more person in your conversation.”
Owen, Laura Hazard. "The New York Times’ new Slack 2016 election bot sends readers’ questions straight to the newsroom." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 5 Feb. 2016. Web. 24 Apr. 2024.
APA
Owen, L. (2016, Feb. 5). The New York Times’ new Slack 2016 election bot sends readers’ questions straight to the newsroom. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/02/the-new-york-times-launches-a-slack-2016-election-bot-that-accepts-questions-from-readers/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "The New York Times’ new Slack 2016 election bot sends readers’ questions straight to the newsroom." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 5, 2016. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/02/the-new-york-times-launches-a-slack-2016-election-bot-that-accepts-questions-from-readers/.
Wikipedia
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