DISQUS

digidave · 9 months ago

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* Joanna Geary
HI,

Came across your post via Paul Bradshaw. Really enjoyed it - great read.

Whilst I don't see news organisations owned by different corporations collaborating any time soon, I think there is an opportunity for them to be reaching out and working better with the people they claim to serve.

I love the "collaboration is queen" idea. Would you mind me using it as the tagline for my blog?

Cheers,
Joanna

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* Gerard_Barberi

Someone plays chess here...

So, who are the pawns? What gets sacrificed for a story?

And, what piece are the journalists? The knights?

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mattoyeah

Your takedown of the scoop mentality is brilliant, but I'm not sure I agree with some of the underyling assumptions about "basic human psychology" used to dismiss competition generally. Humans collaborate but they also compete. Competition can be disastrous (war, bad scoop for exclusivity's sake, etc) but also channeled to good effect. It's true that recently scooped journalists sometimes call off the dogs and move on, but they are far more likely to call off the dogs if no one else is lurking around.