Friday, February 20, 2009

Doublecheck Before You Click

"The rush to post is no excuse for jettisoning journalistic standards:"  The American Journalism Review.

The editor and publisher of the American Journalism Review, Rem Rieder, has a timely essay on how the impulse to publish online now can hurt journalistic standards, especially accuracy. "The Internet, like newspapers and television and radio, is a platform. It is a very exciting platform. But that's all it is. Journalism remains journalism, no matter how it is disseminated. Standards matter. Accuracy matters. Context matters," Rieder says. Read it here.

On a side note, I misspelled Rieder's name in my original draft of this. Yoi!

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