Dan SinkerNewsrooms should not spin up instances for their reporters partially because this is too new to dedicate strapped staff to, partially because layoffs mean reporters would lose their timelines bc you can't migrate posts, partially because newsrooms are *already* not great at social media policies, and mostly because the problem it ostensibly solves, verification, can be done by just sticking rel=me into author pages and letting reporters self-verify super easily wherever they set up shop here.
Jeff Jarvis@dansinker Yes to all but... news organizations should see an ethical obligation to share the load in a federated universe. They benefit from social media; they should pay back.
@jeffjarvis there are a lot of ethical obligations newsrooms *should* see but don't, I'd put the fediverse pretty low down on that list tbh.
ianhillmedia@dansinker @jeffjarvis What Dan said. Plus, what do you see as the benefits that news orgs are gaining from the fediverse ATM that would justify the investment?
@ianhillmedia @dansinker Sigh. In a federated universe, people share the load. I am using money from my center at CUNY to support the out-of-pocket costs of @adamdavidson starting journa.host because the fediverse is run by such volunteers. We in news media will benefit from this federated ecosystem--no longer subject to the whims of insane moguls--and should pay back. Everything isn't about us and our pathetic bottom lines.
Cromulent Outputs@jeffjarvis @ianhillmedia @dansinker @adamdavidson never understood the "financial ROI calc" for news media/journalism...revenue in journalism is always going to be relatively low compared to tech for example, the NYT is very successful and it's valuation is in the $1-2b range...so basically worse than Rivian.
That's fine, in fact helps justify ethos of "do what's right, create cool things" because the financial stakes aren't that high to begin with
That's fine, in fact helps justify ethos of "do what's right, create cool things" because the financial stakes aren't that high to begin with
@rajvsmachine @jeffjarvis @dansinker @adamdavidson FWIW, I don’t think anyone is in #journalism to become tech bro rich. The questions we ask about ROI are, is this the best way I can use my time to serve my community? And for those of us who also work on the business side, can we cover the costs of our journalists’ work on a platform while also generating some profit?
@rajvsmachine @jeffjarvis @dansinker @adamdavidson And if we’re not optimizing our efforts when it comes to serving our communities, we’re not going to generate a profit. Then our businesses close, and a community loses local news coverage. Obviously that’s an overly simple explanation, but those are the stakes. We don’t have jobs and communities get less news coverage.