tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790809561264810693.post6021088020420251223..comments2023-11-07T06:56:59.563-05:00Comments on Ann Arbor Schools Musings: Thinking About News: Part IIRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10531344380743742801noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790809561264810693.post-79627503840192832982010-08-11T02:38:44.162-04:002010-08-11T02:38:44.162-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790809561264810693.post-13644382924379667282010-07-26T09:29:00.390-04:002010-07-26T09:29:00.390-04:00And Ed, I should have added that I believe part of...And Ed, I should have added that I believe part of the reason for the short articles is that in the "river of news" format, there is an emphasis on prizing headlines over substance. In other words, the powers that be would prefer that someone write three very short articles rather than one comprehensive story. Instead of one deadline a day, there is the constant push for "something new." Unfortunately, that doesn't serve the public very well. In addition, there is emerging evidence that it burns journalists out quickly. See for example, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/business/media/19press.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">this recent New York Times article, "In a World of Online News, Burnout Starts Younger."</a>Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10531344380743742801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790809561264810693.post-81100027132802261472010-07-25T23:11:13.986-04:002010-07-25T23:11:13.986-04:00So maybe the Willow Run example wasn't the bes...So maybe the Willow Run example wasn't the best one? Although you are right, it would make a great long magazine article, the Chicago Tribune was able to write a fairly complete article about Hope-Jackson's interviews in the Harvey, IL school district in just over 600 words. <br /><br />My point is that annarbor.com has lots of articles that are really not much more than lead paragraphs--and this is but one example, perhaps not a perfect one. <br /><br />Thanks for the arborwiki link.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10531344380743742801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2790809561264810693.post-81792246662160334612010-07-25T22:21:47.031-04:002010-07-25T22:21:47.031-04:00The Doris Hope-Jackson story is much, much longer ...The Doris Hope-Jackson story is much, much longer than can easily fit into a single newspaper story. I have collected some of the stories that other papers have written (since 2003) on Arborwiki:<br /><br /><a href="http://arborwiki.org/city/Doris_Hope-Jackson" rel="nofollow">http://arborwiki.org/city/Doris_Hope-Jackson</a><br /><br />To really tell this story with some sense of completeness, a newspaper is going to have a really hard time in 300 or 600 or even 1200 words. You'd want to go back to the lawsuits in Dolton and Calumet Park, Illinois, and figure out how it came to be that she ended up in Willow Run after two run-ins with school boards. <br /><br />At some point there's enough material for a long magazine article, or maybe even a book.Edward Vielmettihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07421049499752624699noreply@blogger.com