Anthony De Rosa
Editor-in-Chief, http://cir.ca
Stop matching
I beg us all to end the duplicative journalistic practice of “matching”“Matching” — when one or more news organizations writes a story based on a news item that another outlet broke first — is an institutional problem deeply rooted within many mainstream newsrooms. To paraphrase myself from this article, sometimes it’s a business strategy: Ignore your competition, don’t let your readers know they exist, pretend they didn’t beat you. Sometimes it’s cultural: The journalists come from a print background and didn’t grow up with the web like digital natives.Anthony De Rosa2 min read