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Putting the context in news
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12/02/2014 from
nymag.com/news/features/ezra-klein-2014-2/
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Damn, some of these ideas I implemented 12 years ago for the EC's thematic architecture. Nice to see them in a different context:
First, the problem with current news journalism:
"The column inches devoted to the new are column inches not given to the important... this stress on novelty is a holdover from when the cost of making and moving paper limited what you could print. The web explodes that constraint ...”
Instead, his “software-eats-the-world idea" is "a 21st-century encyclopedia as much as a digital news site". The idea being to give more value to “the persistent content ... static information that makes the new stuff make sense."
This represents an evolution in the "stock vs flow" dichotomy in online content, viewing context and news as "rivers and lakes of content that work together.”
- Ezra Klein on His New Vox Media Venture -- New York Magazine
Complex issues like EU affairs are just one example where an explanation of content alongside the 'news of the day' would greatly help people understand why the news is happening, and what it means.
Newsroom-powered, feasibly multilingual thematic pages, anyone? No, don't ask for a link, they were mothballed 7 years ago.
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