New-fangled Journalism's Problem: Too Much Email
from the whatever-you-say dept
Email has proved a valuable tool for journalists, giving them an easy way to get in touch with and interview sources. But reporting via email's got its critics who say it's a "recipe for sterile journalism". It's fairly clear that there's a number of people in the world of journalism that aren't comfortable with technology, as evidenced by the medium's generally backwards view of the Internet. Many journalists like using email for interviews because it gives them backup when somebody claims to have been misquoted, but one professor objects to them on the basis that it's lazy, and not "old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting". Of course, old-school reporters don't need email to be lazy. Email offers plenty of benefits to journalists, but at the end of the day, it's just a tool like the telephone or even the trusty reporter's notebook. Used responsibly, it's quite valuable. But it never made anyone do shoddy work on its own.
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