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Objective: Provide a way to keep the raw materials going into an unpublished story from public viewing until after the story is published.
Abstract: As I said in my entry regarding the need for an RSS feed on a per editorial project basis,
one reason RSS feeds would be great for media organizations is that
they would allow editorial managers to track the projects that their
editors and writers are working on. But, editorial organizations
-- especially ones that do any investigative reporting -- probably
don't want editorial projects-in-progress to be available for viewing
by the public until after the story is published. After all, you
don't want to show your hand to competing journalists and media
organizations. So, on per category basis, you need a way to
toggle the editorial project as public or private. This of
course raises the issue of security which I'll try to address more in
depth in another post. But, suffice to say that JOTS has to have
the sort of security baked into it that gives an administrator control
over users and what authority those users have. For example, who
has the authority to switch an editorial project from private to public?
10:36:28 PM
RadioEdit
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Objective: Break a transparency
channel down into sub-channels and allow people who want access to the
raw materials to subscribe to the complete channel, or individual
editorial projects.
Abstract: This is a
pretty straightfoward part of the spec and it's why the underlying
infrastructure of a blogging system may be ideal to serve as a
transparency channel's infrastructure. I've already broken this
transparency channel down into multiple categories, many of which are
focused on a single editorial project. The idea is that if
someone wants to narrow their view down to the raw materials for one
particular project, the system should make it really easy to do
this. Most blog infrastructures such as the one I'm using to
prototype this channel, will automatically generate RSS feeds for each
category. With categories, the RSS feeds and the Web site provide
a plethora of entry points to those interested in the raw
materials. For media organizations, RSS feeds at the editorial
project level would also provide editorial managers with a great way to
keep track of the stories that their staffs are working on.
10:27:00 PM
RadioEdit
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As with my first test, I've completed another test where the editorial points to the raw material. In the first case, the editorial
provided time codes that could be used to advance to certain quotes in
an audio file. In this case, the raw material is an e-mail
instead of an MP3 file and the editorial mentions that the full text of
the e-mail is available here, in the transparency channel. In
response to concerns from the PR community regarding the automatic
publication of their e-mails into my transparency channel, I adjusted
my methodology and checked with the source (Kelly Larabee of Skype) to
make sure she was OK with it. You can see in the thread where I
asked:
Would you mind, if for transparency's
sake, I published this contents of this thread between you and me on my
transparency channel?.....Your email address will be removed as will
any phone numbers (including my conference line numbers).
and she responded:
That would be great, no problem at all ~
So, in summary, I felt pretty good about the way this worked out.
By asking Larabee if she was OK with it and assuring her that her
contact information would be redacted (a laborious task, by the way),
her expectations were not only properly set, she was agreeable to the
idea.
6:33:44 PM
RadioEdit
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