The Radio and Television News Directors Association is planning a workshop on election coverage for "working television and online journalists" -- but will bloggers without a traditional journalism industry ".com" behind them be eligible?
One of my favorite online journalists, J.D. Lasica, points out this New Directions in News study that, in turn, points out one of the main differences between traditional journalism and "participatory journalism," which presumably includes this weblog now that I've got the "comments" button working.
"In participatory journalism," the report says, "the order is different -- it becomes 'publish, then filter' instead of the traditional 'filter, then publish' model." You can jump in and help "filter" this hastily-typed blog entry by clicking on the comment button or sending me e-mail, saving the stamp or phone call it used to take to flame my newspaper column in 1980... which someone famous did exactly once in ten years.
The same organization's NDN weblog invites readers to e-mail contributions... to be filtered and published, I guess.
Some of the most basic "filtering" is the work a writer does to check and double-check accuracy, even though it takes more time than a quick "look at this" weblog entry.
Tonight, I hope to ask Dave how to do my own filtering... partly because I've already managed to do something stupid in commenting on another weblog, so I'd like to be able to jump in and remove comments from my own blog when necessary.
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