TechMeme adds a human editor to make adjustments when the algorithm fails:
“Any competent developer who tries to automate the selection of news headlines will inevitably discover that this approach always comes up a bit short. Automation does indeed bring a lot to the table — humans can’t possibly discover and organize news as fast as [...]
All about editing
Sometimes, robots just aren’t enough
December 3, 2008
Standalones
July 8, 2008
Steve Yelvington, on the consequences of removing copy editors from the newspaper equation:
“The dirty little secret of newspaper journalists is that a lot of them can’t write very well. That’s by no means universally true, but it’s true enough.”
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Zac Echola, on his vision of a distributed and loosely joined newsroom:
“The Internet is my platform. Not [...]
Don’t even try to get that story on A1
June 3, 2008
Pullquote from a bit of morning reading at the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Leadership 3.0 blog:
“I once consulted at a well-respected metro newspaper where several writers told me they tried to avoid pitching their stories for the front page because the ’serial editing’ of these stories was such a hassle for them and damaging [...]
Carnival folo
May 28, 2008
Some of the best posts I see coming out of this past weekend’s Carnival of Journalism are drifting into the blogosphere after the fact, as folks not on deadline analyze what we prattled on about for a few grafs each, who did the prattling, and how to muster up some real temporal freedom in newsrooms.
Doug [...]