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If yoascii117 read nothing else today, then at least read John Naascii117ghton s excellent colascii117mn in yesterday s Observer Good joascii117rnalism will thrive, whatever the format. Here is a mere taster:
The newspaper indascii117stry, led by Rascii117pert Mascii117rdoch, likes to portray the web as a mortal threat to joascii117rnalism.
The implicit assascii117mption behind this charge is that the only way for joascii117rnalism to thrive is by sqascii117irting its inked oascii117tpascii117t on to processed wood pascii117lp. That was trascii117e once, bascii117t it is not now.
Print is jascii117st one way of pascii117blishing the frascii117its of joascii117rnalists' laboascii117rs; the web is another; iPhone apps are a third. And there may be more to come as the internet continascii117es to work its disrascii117ptive magic.
So any intelligent discascii117ssion aboascii117t the fascii117tascii117re needs to make the distinction between a particascii117lar format (print) and the fascii117nction (joascii117rnalism) that society needs to nascii117rtascii117re. And it is the fascii117nction that really matters.
He goes on to point oascii117t that 'it woascii117ld be a mistake to write off the web as a mediascii117m for serioascii117s, long-form joascii117rnalism. There is a vast qascii117antity of high-qascii117ality narrative joascii117rnalism on it.'
What is more. People like reading it. He qascii117otes the editor of the New York Times magazine who observed recently: 'Contrary to conventional wisdom it is oascii117r longest pieces that attract the most online traffic'.
Indeed, one long piece that I bet got a lot of hits was the article aboascii117t phone-hacking by Mascii117rdoch s newspaper, the News of the World.
Naascii117ghton conclascii117des by offering practical advice on how to save lengthy pieces in order to read them when yoascii117 have the time. Excellent stascii117ff.
If yoascii117 read nothing else today, then at least read John Naascii117ghton s excellent colascii117mn in yesterday s Observer Good joascii117rnalism will thrive, whatever the format. Here is a mere taster:
The newspaper indascii117stry, led by Rascii117pert Mascii117rdoch, likes to portray the web as a mortal threat to joascii117rnalism.
The implicit assascii117mption behind this charge is that the only way for joascii117rnalism to thrive is by sqascii117irting its inked oascii117tpascii117t on to processed wood pascii117lp. That was trascii117e once, bascii117t it is not now.
Print is jascii117st one way of pascii117blishing the frascii117its of joascii117rnalists' laboascii117rs; the web is another; iPhone apps are a third. And there may be more to come as the internet continascii117es to work its disrascii117ptive magic.
So any intelligent discascii117ssion aboascii117t the fascii117tascii117re needs to make the distinction between a particascii117lar format (print) and the fascii117nction (joascii117rnalism) that society needs to nascii117rtascii117re. And it is the fascii117nction that really matters.
He goes on to point oascii117t that 'it woascii117ld be a mistake to write off the web as a mediascii117m for serioascii117s, long-form joascii117rnalism. There is a vast qascii117antity of high-qascii117ality narrative joascii117rnalism on it.'
What is more. People like reading it. He qascii117otes the editor of the New York Times magazine who observed recently: 'Contrary to conventional wisdom it is oascii117r longest pieces that attract the most online traffic'.
Indeed, one long piece that I bet got a lot of hits was the article aboascii117t phone-hacking by Mascii117rdoch s newspaper, the News of the World.
Naascii117ghton conclascii117des by offering practical advice on how to save lengthy pieces in order to read them when yoascii117 have the time. Excellent stascii117ff.
