The neutral convenor Re: Washington Post Selling Access to Lobbyists for 25-250K
Bill Densmore
My reaction to this, when I first read it, was that Katharine Weymouth is
just intending to do what her aunt, Kay Graham, used to do -- hold dinner
parties at which all the power brokers of Washington would mix it up and
trade stories, tips and secrets. But back when Kay Graham was publisher,
dropping $10K or $20K on a big party was nothing. Now the publisher of the
WashPost can't afford to do that.
It is another example of the systemic challenge we are now facing; I think
it it more that . . . than it is a statement about the ethics of the
WashPost or Weymouth. The WashPost can't afford to be the neutral convenor
anymore. Weymouth's instinct to find a way to do that is right, but the
funding is wrong. Who can afford to take on that role who has no agenda?
-- bill
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Hannah Miller wrote:
> http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=3B5502AA-18FE-70B2-A8FD90B34E41BF57
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> WashPost sells access, $25,000+
> By: Mike Allen
> July 2, 2009 08:04 AM EST
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> For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and
> association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those
> powerful few" яя Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and
> the paperяяs own reporters and editors.
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MONITOR Library
Enjoyed reconnecting with the JTM stewards yesterday. As recommended
by Peggy, I just wrote a blog post on what I came away from the New
News Ecology with, that profoundly affected my viewpoint on how to
save the news.
http://journalismthatmatters.com/content/adding-structure-content-save-news
I also put it on twitter, using our tag from our session, #jtmpoynter
Feel free to check it out – and it would be great to hear from you,
and what is working at your own site these days. Or what has stayed
with you since our time at the Poynter Institute.
Many thanks, and happy weekend,
Leigh M.
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Peggy Holman
Thanks for your blog post. As I've thought about new ways of
structuring information, one of the insights from the AP research that
Jim Kennedy discussed comes to mind: the hunger for context.
There's an image I like for thinking about making context visible and
understandable. It is the "macroscope". I've attached a picture to
give a sense of the term. It was coined by Joel de Rosnay, author of
The Symbiotic Man.
One way to provide context is to create macroscopic views into
stories, a contextualized understanding of the relevant
interconnections. I wish I had a good example. Something that
enables us to see the complexity of the health care debate or how the
financial meltdown happened.
My hunch is the kind of metadata you discuss will make developing such
formats possible.
Peggy
Maurreen Skowran
reporting, which there is very little of.
I think there would be a market for a publication based on strong
graphics reporting.
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> On Jul 9, 2009, at 1:03 PM, MONITOR Library wrote:
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>
>
> > Greetings:
>
> > Enjoyed reconnecting with the JTM stewards yesterday. As recommended
> > by Peggy, I just wrote a blog post on what I came away from the New
> > News Ecology with, that profoundly affected my viewpoint on how to
> > save the news.
>
> > I also put it on twitter, using our tag from our session, #jtmpoynter
>
> > Feel free to check it out – and it would be great to hear from you,
> > and what is working at your own site these days. Or what has stayed
> > with you since our time at the Poynter Institute.
>
> > Many thanks, and happy weekend,
>
> > Leigh M.
>
> > --
> > Leigh Montgomery
> > Librarian
> > The Christian Science Monitor
> > Library P02-30
> > 210 Massachusetts Avenue
> > Boston, MA 02115 U.S.A.
> > 617.450.2682 phone