I do wonder how this new model of journalism, Substack and similar, can deal with funding travel for the journalists. Someone credible still has to buy a ticket, go to the scene of the action, and report what they see. For all that HCR is a fabulous source of aggregation and analysis, she's still not a primary source. At the moment, the …
I do wonder how this new model of journalism, Substack and similar, can deal with funding travel for the journalists. Someone credible still has to buy a ticket, go to the scene of the action, and report what they see. For all that HCR is a fabulous source of aggregation and analysis, she's still not a primary source. At the moment, the only alternative I can see to media-corporation primary reporting is the decentralized -- and hard to verify -- crowdsourced "citizen reporter" model.
It takes a village. NYT, AP, WAPO, etc, have great reporters in the field - how their reporting is presented is where it gets sticky - and that's where HCR comes in, taking the time to sift through, authenticate, aggregate with a historical mind, then summarize in a way that makes some sense to readers.
I do wonder how this new model of journalism, Substack and similar, can deal with funding travel for the journalists. Someone credible still has to buy a ticket, go to the scene of the action, and report what they see. For all that HCR is a fabulous source of aggregation and analysis, she's still not a primary source. At the moment, the only alternative I can see to media-corporation primary reporting is the decentralized -- and hard to verify -- crowdsourced "citizen reporter" model.
It takes a village. NYT, AP, WAPO, etc, have great reporters in the field - how their reporting is presented is where it gets sticky - and that's where HCR comes in, taking the time to sift through, authenticate, aggregate with a historical mind, then summarize in a way that makes some sense to readers.
Out here in Colorado, a wonderful source of great on the ground journalism is The Colorado Sun.