By: Timothy Murray

Timothy Murray — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:12:50 +0000

One piece of advice for Ms. Abramson. It has two parts: In the digital world reporter will get called out and abused if they use anonymous sources when they could name their sources. As head of digital, send stories back if they don’t name their sources. Reporters should use proper citations for written sources and hyperlinks to sources that are online. A link to a companies home page is the wrong link is the story is about a specific press release that can be found at a specific webpage. Let’s face it, brand credibility is not enough (the times lost much of it’s brand credibility when you testified on behalf of Judith Miller). The public will evaluate your sources for themselves. And that is a good thing for the Times and your customers.

By: Brad_King

Brad_King — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:32:27 +0000

The headline is misleading, it seems. A “digital immersion course” would seem to be a time when she is going to go learn — as a student — how digital networks operate and how people interact. If she is simply going to “run” digital, I suspect this will be a massive failure as, once again, traditional journalists try to template atom thinking into a bit world. As they ignore 70 years of research and digital activity and instead try to force what THEY know onto the world.

Ah well.

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