Attn My Fellow Basement Dwelling Parasites : In The Future, Try Not To Quote Bart Hubbach
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
(above : the man that killed the newspaper biz)
At length, anyway. In today’s Washington Post, journalist Ian Shapira describes in detail his emotional roller coaster ride upon learning one of his recent stories had been excerpted at length by Gawker. At first, Shapria admits “I confess to feeling a bit triumphant…I was flattered.” After a dressing down from his editor, however, Shapira came to understand that Nick Denton’s House Of Snark had ripped him and his employer off (”after all the reporting, it ...
‘They Stole Your Story’
The Big Lead —
... was a link to the Washington Post story, the words Washington Post appeared in the post, and the link from Gawker drove plenty of readers to the story, the writer was upset. Are there unwritten rules about excerpting? Should there be hard and fast ones? Is a sentence or a paragraph or two sufficient enough to capture the jist of the story and tell the reader ‘this is something worth reading?’ (The story in question had four paragraphs of a 1,500-word story excerpted.) What about giving a story the Fire Joe Morgan ...
What did I miss?: Killing newspapers edition
The Sports Bank —
By H. Jose Bosch
Ah yes, the whole newspaper v. blog debate never gets old. That’s why it was fun to monitor the cat fight between Gawker and the Washington Post. A brief summary of events:
Washington post reporter writes a story. Gawker editor blogs about it. Washington Post reporter stresses out about the role of blogs and what they’re doing to newspapers. Gawker responds and points out that Washington Posts asks blogs to post its content all the time.
Regardless of your stance on blogs v. ...
