The Read-Write Web and Changing Face of Journalism
Clearly, I have the changing state of public relations and journalism on my mind these days. In thinking about the read-write web, I found a very interesting post in the Washington City Paper blog about the “Ten Principles for Washington Post Journalism on the Web” released today.
My favorite principle:
10. Publishing our journalism on the Web should make us more open to change what we publish in the printed newspaper. There is no meaningful division at The Post between ‘old media’ and ‘new media.’ (emphasis mine)
Clearly things are changing.
Wow - that’s a really good “mission statement” for a newspaper in the wired world. Whether or not each of those principle is put in practice immediately, those 10 points will inform the paper’s decisions going forward and position it well in the long run.
The funny thing to me (and to many other tech-types, I’m sure) is that many of these things need to be explicitly called out at all - but such is life in the MSM I suppose.
Anyway - good find!