For the second time in a week, I came across a discussion on Twitter about linking practices on news websites. Seeing as linking is a routine part of my job at POLITICO, I decided to post a comment on Doc Searls’ blogpost:
It’s the reporters who are reading and citing the original material – but few reporters file using software that plays nicely with their organization’s web CMS. If there’s no good mechanism to get the data (in this case, a URL) from reporter to web producer, it’s tough for the producer to add that attribution or context.
What we need is more newsrooms getting reporters to work in applications that integrate well with their websites.
As I write this, it looks like more and more are weighing in on this issue. It may be worth Storifying some time tomorrow.
Update, 12:38 a.m. – Here it is!
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[...] I collected some excerpts of the Twitter discussion on my personal blog last night using Storify (it’s also embedded at the bottom of this post), and Alex Byers of Politico also put together a Storify summary. [...]
[...] and journalism amongst a number of journalists in North America. Mathew Ingram of GigaOm and Alex Byers, a web producer for Politico in Washington, both collected the conversation using Storify. It covers a lot of well worn [...]
[...] from the New York Times. The Twitter back-and-forth was captured by Ingram (and Politico’s Alex Byers) using Storify — see it [...]
[...] This kicked off a sprawling debate on Twitter, aptly chronicled via Storify by Mathew Ingram and Alex Byers. Ingram also wrote a post responding to a few of the themes of resistance of links, particularly [...]