I was stricken by a paraphrase today on Mark Glaser's Mediashift blog:
"David Boardroom, Seattle Times: I think longer stories actually are better in print. We want people to read the story in print and then to go online to the web to read more, to read the whole thing."
Glaser is live-blogging “The Crisis in News: Is There a Future for Investigative Journalism?” the School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. This panel, for which Glaser was a questioner, included media big whigs such as Len Downie, Bill Keller and Larie Hays.
The paraphrase from Boardroom rings pretty clearly with me. In the video I posted last week, it became startlingly apparent to me that the Web isn't built for everything. Some stories are just better told in print.
Media need to realize that they cannot shift everything to the Web. Keep using the expansive features the Internet provides to tell important stories that you couldn't in print, but please do not kill stories at out of technolust.
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