Monday, March 24, 2014

Bitcoin story continues to drag down Newsweek

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2014/03/10/satoshi-why-newsweek-isnt-convincing/




Discussed at ethics conference:
From Newsweek reporter: " If I ready my own story, I would not be convinced."  She could have reached out to the Bitcoin community and done some crowd sourcing, which then could have been researched by Newsweek. We need to acknowledge as journalists that sometimes our readers know better than we do. However, the old-fashioned notion exists: If I talk about it, someone will steal my story!


Oh, my! Here's more: http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/03/this-week-in-review-newsweeks-scoop-lands-with-a-thud-and-diversity-in-the-new-news-sites/

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