Delicious grilled pizzas with Daniel, Leah, and Stijn; great Friday.
Tag: Stijn Debrouwere
Turning questions into metrics. Every long post Stijn writes is such high quality. In this one he focuses on measuring things within a news organization. It all starts by asking, “a good metric to do what?”
Local newspapers, news deserts, and simple stuff:
But truly, there’s no divine law nor any practical argument to explain why newspapers are the preferred caretaker and distributor of community information.
Stijn does a great job illustrating why local newspapers are not irreplaceable.
Fungible. The smartest writing about journalism I have read this year.
Getting it
But by imitating the best journalism of yesterday without a full understanding of why that journalism was great and what made it so powerful, our industry is slowly amassing an unsettling amount of cargo cult behaviors: we’re imitating a 20th-century writing style and ethical code without the first idea about how these contribute to journalism that is informative, engaging and fair.
Stijn Debrouwere – Getting it.