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Journalists should ‘think more about context than content’

By Julie Starr | Published: October 23, 2008
Thought for the day (from Amy Gahran on MediaShift IdeaLab: Today's journalists can -- and probably should -- consciously shift away from jobs that revolve around content creation (producing packaged "stories") and toward providing layers of journalistic insight and context on top of content created by others (including public information). Finding ways to help people sort through info overload is far more valuable than providing more information.
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Page numbers add context for online readers

By Julie Starr | Published: February 24, 2008
I notice the Guardian has added a nice little feature at the bottom of stories which shows which page the story ran on in the paper, if it did, where it was first published and when it was last updated online.
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