Nine Rules For Online Journalism - Presentation Transcript
Nine Rules for Online Journalism Pramit Singh Founder, Bighow.com World’s Best tool for Local Journalism
It is about Curating the Web
Every link is an editorial decision.
- Anonymous
Get over your self-importance
The age of the mass media is just that, an
age. It doesn't have to last forever.
- Jay Rosen
Get over your fear
I get annoyed when people suggest that the only people who can deliver news to the public are newspaper journalists.
I believe that is an arrogance based upon fear.
- Joanna Geary.
Look out for Yourself
In case, some of the mainstream media haven't got this yet - 'THE WEB DOES NOT OWE YOU A LIVING '. It doesn't care that you have been doing this for years, you have to earn your eyeballs like everyone else.
Andy Dickinson
Question Everything
Anyone who sold their stock on the basis of a pseudonymous post on the web was a fool who deserved what they got (are these the same people who invested in subprime mortgages?).
- Jeff Jarvis
The web is about people
To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear.
Clay Shirky
Start a blog, now
With blogging, an awkward term, we designate a fairly beautiful thing: the extension to many more people of a First Amendment franchise, the right to publish your thoughts to the world. Wherever blogging spreads the dramas of free expression follow... A blog, you see, is a little First Amendment machine.
Jay Rosen
Get over the arrogance, as well
We can’t expect consumers to come to us. It’s arrogant for any media company to assume that.
- Quincy Smith, CBS Interactive
People will know the truth
Most [PR] agencies are a waste of time and you should fire them…I will never have a separate budget for new marketing.
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