Monday Note reporting:
News reporting is aging badly. Legacy newsrooms style books look stuck in a last Century formalism (I was tempted to write "formalin"). Take a newspaper, print or online. When it comes news reporting, you see the same old structure dating back to the Fifties or even earlier. For the reporter, there is the same (affected) posture of effacing his/her personality behind facts, and a stiff structure based on a string of carefully arranged paragraphs, color elements, quotes, etc.
I hate useless quotes. Most often, for journalists, such quotes are the equivalent of the time-card hourly workers have to punch...
1/ Readers' Time Budget. People are deluged with things to read. ..
2/ Trust factor / The contract with the Brand...
3 / Competition from the inside. Strangely enough, newspapers have created their own gauge to measure their obsolescence. By encouraging their writing staff to blog, they unleashed new, more personal, more... modern writing practices...
4/ The influence of magazine writing.
Digital media needs to invent its own journalistic genres.
http://www.mondaynote.com/2013/02/17/the-need-for-a-digital-new-journalism/
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