“We ask people every day to let us in at their worst moments. To give nothing of ourselves in return sometimes feels like denying that we’re [also] people in this equation.”
A study that seemed to claim they had was treated as “bad news for journalists: the public doesn’t share our values.” The reality is a few arbitrary research design decisions put a thumb on the scale.
“Recent love letters to journalistic innovations today read like declarations of world peace in 1938. Resisting the temptation to find sure-fire redeemers of journalism is important.”
“As a news organization, it’s perhaps an opportunity for us to be helping people fill those gaps without forcing them to go to Wikipedia or start Googling things, just to try to get the background they crave on a story.”
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Six things we learned about big news outlets from a report on editorial standards." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 4 Sep. 2014. Web. 26 May. 2023.
APA
O'Donovan, C. (2014, Sep. 4). Six things we learned about big news outlets from a report on editorial standards. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 26, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/09/six-things-we-learned-about-big-news-outlets-from-a-report-on-editorial-standards/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Six things we learned about big news outlets from a report on editorial standards." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 4, 2014. Accessed May 26, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/09/six-things-we-learned-about-big-news-outlets-from-a-report-on-editorial-standards/.
Wikipedia
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