http://bloggasm.com/6-of-huffington-posts-front-page-stories-contain-original-reporting-from-the-site Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:39:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://bloggasm.com/6-of-huffington-posts-front-page-stories-contain-original-reporting-from-the-site/comment-page-1#comment-83889 Hettie Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:08:16 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=2949#comment-83889 It would be interesting to compare these findings to for instance the New York Times regarding original stories vs opinions vs wire copies. It would be interesting to compare these findings to for instance the New York Times regarding original stories vs opinions vs wire copies.

]]> http://bloggasm.com/6-of-huffington-posts-front-page-stories-contain-original-reporting-from-the-site/comment-page-1#comment-83868 Simon Payn Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:55:59 +0000 http://bloggasm.com/?p=2949#comment-83868 Interesting analysis. It would be interesting to look further and, of the stories that were original reporting, which (if any) were truly original - in both HuffPo and the newspapers. I think that a publication is only making a contribution if the reporting is truly original - adding something that is not reported anywhere else - rather than just going to the original source and reporting from there - perhaps duplicating reporting done in another outlet. I think the greatest contribution any publication can make is to break stories - or break facts within stories - that no other publication has broken. I imagine that all the publications score quite low by that criteria. Interesting analysis. It would be interesting to look further and, of the stories that were original reporting, which (if any) were truly original – in both HuffPo and the newspapers. I think that a publication is only making a contribution if the reporting is truly original – adding something that is not reported anywhere else – rather than just going to the original source and reporting from there – perhaps duplicating reporting done in another outlet. I think the greatest contribution any publication can make is to break stories – or break facts within stories – that no other publication has broken. I imagine that all the publications score quite low by that criteria.

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