The building block of journalism is no longer the article
The old building block of journalism — the article — is proving to be inadequate in the current onslaught of news. I’ll argue here that the new building block is the topic.
The story was all we had before — it’s what would fit onto a newspaper page or into a broadcast show. But a discrete and serial series of articles over days cannot adequately cover the complex stories going on now nor can they properly inform the public. There’s too much repetition. Too little explanation. The knowledge is not cumulative. Each instance is necessarily shallow. And when more big stories come — as they have lately! — in scarce time and space and with scarce resources, each becomes even shallower. We never catch up, we never get smarter. Articles perpetuate a Ground Hog Day kind of journalism.
Talking this over with some smart folks over the last few days — in one set of conversations about newspapers and online technology and in another conversation with NPR’s David Folkenflik for a story he’ll air shortly — I came to see that we haven’t yet created the proper elemental unit of coverage of stories like these.
Six years ago, in an insightful essay, Blogger cocreator Meg Hourihan wrote that the elemental unit of online media was no longer the publication or section or page or story but the post. I think that’s right: countless grains of information, thought, or opinion, each with its own permanent link so it can become connected to something larger — carbon atoms adding up to earth.
But that alone won’t work as an organizing principle for informing a world. It is the underlying base from which we have to start. But we have to add more value atop that shifting beach.
We have many tools to work with now, first and foremost the link. The link can take us to more or less background, depending on how much each of us needs, and to original source material and to many perspectives.
The link becomes more important than the brand in news. I said to Folkenflik last night that I never would have thought to go to This American Life as a brand to find the best explanation of the credit crisis, but I did. (Its reporters are working furiously on a sequel for this week’s show.) Lots of people discovered that report and spread the word around — with the link. The link changes everything.
I think the new building block of journalism needs to be the topic. I don’t mean that in the context of news site topic pages, which are just catalogues of links built to kiss up to Google SEO. Those are merely collections of articles, and articles are inadequate.
Instead, I want a page, a site, a thing that is created, curated, edited, and discussed. It’s a blog that treats a topic as an ongoing and cumulative process of learning, digging, correcting, asking, answering. It’s also a wiki that keeps a snapshot of the latest knowledge and background. It’s an aggregator that provides annotated links to experts, coverage, opinion, perspective, source material. It’s a discussion that doesn’t just blather but that tries to accomplish something (an extension of an article like this one that asks what options there are to bailout a bailout). It’s collaborative and distributed and open but organized.
Think of it as being inside a beat reporter’s head, while also sitting at a table with all the experts who inform that reporter, as everyone there can hear and answer questions asked from the rest of the room — and in front of them all are links to more and ever-better information and understanding.
This is the way to cover stories and life.
It’ s not an article, a story, a section, a bureau, a paper, a show. We have to use the new tools we have at hand to create new structures for covering news and informing each other. As I said in the post below, old structures are crumbling and new structures will be built in their place. We need to create that something new now.
What do we call it? I don’t know. The topic table. The beat bliki (ouch). The news brain. We’ll know what to call it when we see it.
: LATER: See Steve Yelvington on community memory and what he’s building.
Here’s Folkenflik’s story.
Tags: journalism, newarchitecture, News
September 30th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Considering that if you type in “Gas Availability Atlanta” into Google (we’re having a gas shortage issue here that’s being relieved by use of Twitter hashtags, FYI, certainly not through the social media cluelessness of MSM or gov, but I diverge…) and my blog entry about using Twitter to find gas in Atlanta (and a brief rant about the uselessness of local MSM in a crisis too as a bonus feature) is the first thing that pops-up, I’d say, yeah, you’re right about the topic being where it’s at. Of course I like to call it “THE hot issue” but same thing.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I don’t know if this is in line with what you are thinking about, but election.twitter.com seems like an interesting mix of many parts of media people have grown accustomed to: A ticker-like stream of news, crowdsourcing, links to other sites, and it’s all organized by a topic, that is simply pulled together by the content of the tweets themselves.
http://election.twitter.com/topic?t=Oh+Dear+God
That’s my new favorite. It’s also an easy way for anyone to put themselves “into” a meme.
@chadrem
September 30th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Just one other note… “Giant Pool of Money” was brilliant. Just absolutely brill. It deserves a Pulitzer. Or at least throw a marguerita at Ira Glass & his TAL peeps on Facebook for such an amazingly-told story. How did I find out about it? Likely on Twitter.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Jeff,
Absolutely spot on. Collections are replacing articles — they may include articles But dynamic collections of source material, related multiple media, topical links, and social participation (tweets, comments, comments aggregated into conversations, etc) are in keeping with the change in media and the socialization of online media in particular.
Interestingly, the shift from articles to collections is being led not by technology (IMHO) but by changing practices, to wit (twit?!), a shift from writing to speech, from publishing to distributing. Online media forms are informed by talk and speech as much as they are by writing — in fact I think writing just happens to be the necessary recording format for what is otherwise a for of talk (not publishing). And talk itself now includes many new forms of speech: from the announcement to the comment, the promotion to the critique, the connection and reference to the gift.
All of which doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re more honest, truthful, sincere or credible! Nor that it’s more democratic, or flat; rank and influence are as much a part of social media as they are any other.
thanks for the post!
adrian
September 30th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Wow. Quite frankly this is a big part of what we are working on at socialmedian http://www.socialmedian.com. Some call it “the curated Internet” — the notion that people who share common interests can help each other figure out what’s worth looking at. We also think journalists and people with expertise can play a big role in that.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Jeff,
The topic is central. Unfortunately, the current approach of news organizations to solving for the topic problem is automation. Textual analysis and algorithms can be useful in assembling decent collections of stories, but the key word you mentioned is this: curation.
Without active curation of the topic by informed reporters and editors, so-called “topic” pages are nothing but Google link-bait. They don’t inform or move the conversation forward.
If you’ll forgive a self-link, this is a drum I’ve been beating for a while now:
The reporter as curator takes on the role of the the most plugged-in guy in the room about a particular area of interest and uses that knowledge to better inform readers and participants in the conversation.
http://timwindsor.com/2008/09/17/turning-reporters-into-curators-to-improve-journalism/
September 30th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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September 30th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Similar thoughts and comments by Matt Thompson at: http://www.newsless.org/2008/09/the-article-is-not-the-story/
Both your post and Thompson’s should be must-reads for all in journalism.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am
You just described Wikipedia.
The format for news articles is driven by attention span and attention frequency, medium is not a significant factor and only limits things (the short-sightedness of technologists, its always about the technology and not the human). For print or Roman Acta, a few minutes, and once a day. With the internet, limits have eased, but things haven’t changed much, several times a day, and a slightly shorter attention span. Articles have changed correspondingly.
What you describe as topic pages, with links to more information, are already extant in Wikipedia. A few decades ago, encyclopedias and books. Both assimilate information more slowly and weave it into a larger more complete. Changes there seem much more significant than changes with news organizations. But an article, as a package of new information, still seems useful to me, and probably isn’t going anywhere. Scanning a bunch of topic pages for changes seems like a lot of work.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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September 30th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Today’s newspapers are still defined in terms of legacy technology — printing on paper, or WORM (Write Once, Read Many times). As a direct consequence of paper printing technology, newspapers cover “events” — not “topics.”
The daily news is focused on giving you incremental updates (events) from the previous day. Magazines and books are the traditional tool for handling “topics” since they have a longer time-base and can aggregate events into topics and trends. If you go back to the technology before printing presses, you’ll find that “Chronicles” were once all the rage. These things were books or scrolls maintained by monks that recorded sequences of events over many years… But, all of these media were WORM…
Today’s technology affords us the luxury of updatability. Today, you can easily produce a constantly updated “time-line” view of the news that shows events in sequence and links to detailed stories. Or, you can have a Wiki-like view that is constantly updated to present the full story as it evolves. Other updateable presentations are obvious… But, all of these methods that exploit updatable technology require a different kind of journalism than is required by the write-once media of traditional newspapers…
bob wyman
September 30th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
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September 30th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
An article is a written program. Good ones execute the reader thoroughly.
September 30th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I love this Jeff, and I don’t think you just described Wikepedia. It sounds like a combination of expert content, loads of links to that content as well as some social media, forums, live chat, breaking news blogs, etc…
I think it’s an amazing vision, and imagine if a news organization or blogging organization, or an individual for that matter, took these topics, culled the content and created niche micro sites or whatever we want to call it, all around these specific subjects. I think it’s a masterpiece in the making. I know that one would argue that we are doing this regularly in many places but I do not see what you’re visioning here in existence at the moment. I like t. i want to build it!!!
September 30th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Nowhere is this problem more evident than in the medium of the 24-hour news channel. CNN and its imitators and competitors have, from the start, faced the impossible dilemma of being a medium that has to try to satisfy the continual viewer and the occasional viewer simultaneously…
How do you keep your constant audience interested with a fresh flow of non-repetitive information?
How do you keep your newly-visiting audience updated with the latest top headlines?
Fox News Channel solves this problem by relegating its newsgathering function largely to the ticker, making its video content purely topic-related rather than story-related. This manifests itself as an emphasis on opinion, argument, confrontation and spin rather than reportage.
CNN solves this problem by contenting itself with being the network of record for massive stories that have such a huge volume of breaking information to be constantly updatable, thus being always new and continually watchable at the same time. Hurricane Katrina and the OJ Simpson trial and the Invasion of Iraq and September 11th stand out as hallmark CNN journalism.
BBC World’s approach is satisfactory if one gives it less than an hour of one’s time on any given day since it runs a traditional 30-minute newscast in a wheel at the top of each hour, alternating with a half-hour magazine feature on various topics.
When you think about it, the BBC’s and CNN’s use of the medium are probably the healthiest since anybody who spends more than 45 minutes each day consuming news, absent a massive cataclysmic breaking story, should get a life. BBC is good for normal times; CNN for crisis times.
Either way, it is my belief that the cable news format is a transitional medium — between a broadcast world and the online world — and within five years we will no longer watch our video news on such a channel.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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October 1st, 2008 at 12:44 am
It’s interesting to see actual Mainstream journalists start to do this. Check this out,
http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/leadership_blog/comments/re_inventing_the_gatekeeper/
October 1st, 2008 at 10:00 am
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October 1st, 2008 at 11:26 am
> The reporter as curator takes on the role of the the most plugged-in guy in the room about a particular area of interest and uses that knowledge to better inform readers and participants in the conversation.
What makes a reporter an appropriate person for this role?
If you’re going for “plugged in”, the pajama-wearing obsessed are more plugged in because they put in far more time than reporters can afford.
Curators curate. Reporters report. While some individuals may do both, there’s no reason to expect that to be the norm. And, interestingly enough, it isn’t in other fields. (Yes, some curators go into the field, but when they do, they turn over their curator duties to someone else.)
October 1st, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Tim - that’s a good piece, and I’m totally with you on redefining the role of a journalist from one of a “creator” to one of a “curator.”
That’s an important distinction that hasn’t really sunk in yet.
Jeff - I don’t think the article / topic distinction you’re making is as clear or correct as you’ve made it seem. The “building block” of journalism, in my mind, is still the article (or post, I think those may be interchangeable) - it’s just that editors need to be paying more attention to how those blocks are strung together.
I recently did an interview with Edward Roussel at the Telegraph UK, and they’ve reorganized their newsroom structure so that editors can take control of a story and grow it online with all kinds of content - video, text, audio, pictures, whatever is necessary. The important thing is that there’s one vision guiding the story (or topic) from start to finish.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
No! It’s people too–we’re talking about two necessary handles on the news. People and topics, they go together, and although there are many potential building blocks of the news–like once-off posts, evergreen essays, data sets, quotations, graphs, beats, headlines, etc.–all the news can, I believe, be mapped on to these two central building blocks, construed broadly.
See more here, including a reference back to your year-old post called “It’s about people”: http://networkednews.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/the-building-block-of-news-topics-people/
October 1st, 2008 at 3:47 pm
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October 1st, 2008 at 11:20 pm
The blog format is a real straight-jacket for this too. A format where ‘articles’ are tied to a particular date and then fall off the front page after a few days, regardless of whether you update or edit them. Not to mention the fact that the latest content is not necessarily the most interesting item on your site for a visitor.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:27 am
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October 2nd, 2008 at 8:18 am
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October 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 am
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October 2nd, 2008 at 9:40 am
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October 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I picture an ideal new media layout as something similar to the windshield/control panel layout you see when driving a car. Biggest window either allows you to browse news videos in 3-D or defaults to professional news reports on late-breaking current events. Sidebar has a Digg-like choice feature to vary the main report based on user ranking, latest-breaking, world media, local media, etc. Real-time comments/tweets scroll somewhere below.
It’s important to focus on one main area, as we do when we’re driving, and adjust peripheral areas as needed. Current UIs are too scattered for us to focus in one place.
Eventually, the ultimate curator for objective news wouldn’t be a single person, but well-programmed artificial intelligence software that can be fed information from researchers, journalists, and other outside (wiki) sources. The story in the windshield, or main viewing area, could be aggregated from whatever facts people input, while commentary and opinion continues around it.
Fascinating stuff!
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
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October 2nd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
So interesting. We’ve been aggregating Southeast gas shortage news in a blog this week, and I think “curating” best describes my role in it. I’m not a transportation, business or environment reporter; I don’t even own a car. But I’ve been reading news stories and blog posts, checking in with organizations and sources to produce print stories and blog updates, reading and jumping in to the Twitter feeds. I do feel plugged in, like Tim said, but it required prioritizing within the newsroom. (I’m not the only one on the gas story — we still need creators somewhere. I haven’t spent time in gas lines or riding along in tanker trucks, and those are valuable perspectives someone ought to provide. Also, my non-gas stories won’t be done this week.) I think this helps readers, and certainly offered more organization than our Web site normally can, but it required quick source development, reaching outside the newsroom for help and really, curating the content. No doubt, we’ll do it again when a topic deserves this treatment locally, I hope we’ll get better at it and build a community around it. What to call it? I don’t know. My mind is stuck on where to find regular unleaded.
October 2nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
[...] Jeff Jarvis is on board. So on board, in fact, he’s practically in the tank. Before you read his post, you should know that I neither paid him nor possessed him. A taste: The story was all we had before — it’s what would fit onto a newspaper page or into a broadcast show. But a discrete and serial series of articles over days cannot adequately cover the complex stories going on now nor can they properly inform the public. There’s too much repetition. Too little explanation. The knowledge is not cumulative. Each instance is necessarily shallow. And when more big stories come — as they have lately! — in scarce time and space and with scarce resources, each becomes even shallower. We never catch up, we never get smarter. Articles perpetuate a Ground Hog Day kind of journalism. [Cf. "The article is not the story," 9/23]… [...]
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:41 am
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October 3rd, 2008 at 4:29 am
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October 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 am
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October 3rd, 2008 at 10:36 am
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October 3rd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
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October 4th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
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October 5th, 2008 at 1:10 am
I believe that the current economic “bailout plan” is a lot like the never-ending pasta bowl at The Olive Garden. It tastes like crap and I don’t know where it’s all going to come from!
October 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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October 6th, 2008 at 3:15 am
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October 6th, 2008 at 3:37 am
Dear Jeff Jarvis;
A year ago, I began to work in a weblog, as a journalist, exclusively focused on the story of two people from Morocco that had been unfairly condemned by mistake. I have been trying to explain why after ten years of being aware of this mistake, the Spanish justice hadn’t found the way of solving this case. But I also publish the research process of how this mistake took place and the improvements in the process. I call it REPORT IN PROGRESS.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:55 am
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October 6th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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October 6th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I like this. News stories are no longer told and concluded, they change and grows based on the interest of the reader. No one looks to one information source for the definitive answer on anything. Organization by topic would allow areas of interest and POV to naturally emerge.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:51 am
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October 7th, 2008 at 9:11 am
The building block of journalism was (is) much more the news story than the article. But yes, Jarvis got a point (another one). Link journalism yes, grains of information linked together, yes. Topics, more thnn events, yes!
But there are still events. And newspapers must cover them. People expect it.
And we have breaking news. As any online newspaper webmaster can tell us, the value of the breaking news is quite amazing: breaking news drives traffic, lots of it! No online newspaper / journalism project can afford existence without breaking news.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
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October 8th, 2008 at 12:51 am
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October 8th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
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October 8th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
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October 10th, 2008 at 1:18 am
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October 10th, 2008 at 6:35 am
[...] Jeff Jarvis says the “article” can no longer be the building block, and that we have to build, from the “post” to a new organization: Instead, I want a page, a site, a thing that is created, curated, edited, and discussed. It’s a blog that treats a topic as an ongoing and cumulative process of learning, digging, correcting, asking, answering. It’s also a wiki that keeps a snapshot of the latest knowledge and background. It’s an aggregator that provides annotated links to experts, coverage, opinion, perspective, source material. It’s a discussion that doesn’t just blather but that tries to accomplish something (an extension of an article like this one that asks what options there are to bailout a bailout). It’s collaborative and distributed and open but organized. [...]
October 10th, 2008 at 8:54 am
[...] “I think the new building block of journalism needs to be the topic. I don’t mean that in the context of news site topic pages, which are just catalogues of links built to kiss up to Google SEO. Those are merely collections of articles, and articles are inadequate.” — Jeff Jarvis, Buzz Machine. [...]
October 10th, 2008 at 9:05 am
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October 10th, 2008 at 10:29 am
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October 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
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October 13th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
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October 17th, 2008 at 11:48 am
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October 20th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Jeff, I do not agree with you on your ‘topic’ issue. Journalism is an art, not somebody deciding what to link together from who knows where. I can see you hiring non-journalism people to put together info. quickly, no matter how well it is written. We have come to learn that readers look forward to, and love the well written articles from the journalists we employ. This has been documented via a readership survey, and daily hits. Thank you, but I think the idea that eveything has to be instantaneous is ruining our lives and careers.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:50 pm
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October 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 am
An art? Oh, come now.
October 25th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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October 26th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
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October 29th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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November 6th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
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November 7th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
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November 9th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
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November 11th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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November 21st, 2008 at 7:33 am
I still think it’s the STORY, and always will be the STORY. We are a story-telling civilization, us humans, no? Of course, the definition of what a story is will change in future news outlets, but it will still the STORY that sets the agenda.
November 24th, 2008 at 7:49 am
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November 24th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
[...] News will find new forms past the article, which will include any media, wiki snapshots of knowledge, live reports, crowd reports, [...]
December 1st, 2008 at 8:32 pm
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December 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 am
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