Another bonus to compiling tweets and separating them by question after the fact … it makes it much easier to keep conversational threads together. (Hopefully I didn’t piece any together in the wrong order.)
journchat: Q9 What do you think of the Associated Press Sports Editors’ “sharing” initiative? Good? Bad? More of this? http://bit.ly/2laEau #journchat
dpolitis: A9: On the one hand, sports media sharing resources is not unlike pooling video cameras in a courtroom. #journchat
Sue_Anne: Q9: Sharing content / revenue is the wave of the future of journalism, unfortunately. How many papers print AP stories verbatim? #journchat
jasontspencer: Q9 Not a sports fan, but anything that can help provide good content to newspapers is a good thing. #journchat
erikgable: A9 Mostly good. We have similar relationships (on a more informal basis) w/other orgs not of same ownership. #journchat
erikgable: A9 Bad only if it leads to scarcity of perspectives on key issue. But in most cases it benefits everyone. #journchat
jasontspencer: Q9 One thing they can’t share, tho, is high school sports, which a lot of newspaper readers folo like it’s a religion #journchat
erikgable: @jasontspencer Belatedly, content-sharing can help w/HS sports, b/c schools 1 paper covers may play vs schools another covers. #journchat
tmonhollon: Q9 These types of moves still rely on news outlets to be brands but emphasizes the filter role more than the reporting. #journchat
jasontspencer: Q9 On the news side, many papers already have sharing agreements (even between rival companies) #journchat
jasontspencer: Q9 Our paper (Spartanburg, SC, owned by NYT) shares local content with The State (Columbia, SC, McClatchy) & vice versa, for ex #journchat
erikgable: I like Cohen’s comment on “Not Invented Here” from http://bit.ly/3bGSRn #journchat
erikgable: Mutter DOES raise a good point for some situations #journchat
Sue_Anne: @jasontspencer Do you revenue share as well or charge each other per story or something else? #journchat
jasontspencer: @Sue_Anne Yikes. That kind of stuff would be above my paygrade & I probably couldn’t talk about it, anyway. #journchat
erikgable: Our arrangements aren’t financial at all — if anyone doesn’t share w/us, we won’t share w/them, but no problems. #journchat
erikgable: Informality of relationships helps. No commitment to share w/anyone who isn’t returning the favor. But we don’t keep score. #journchat
tmonhollon: Q9 Does contents sharing emphasize freelance or staff reporting? Curious on the newsroom side those who have seen it. #journchat
erikgable: @tmonhollon Trouble w/doing it w/freelancers is that some make living by selling same story packaged differently to many outlets #journchat
MistyMontano: Q9 w/any news/sports sharing aka the pool-if material is taken & then expanded is good, is bad if alternative perspective is lost #journchat
Robert_Moran: Q9 its definitely a bad idea…journalism at least good journalism thrives when there’s competition. In collectives…#journchat
Robert_Moran: Q9…there’s a lack of competition and everyone is getting the same recycled news. #journchat
dferrari: Q9 Not sure if good or bad, but in light of this past year’s demise of print, I’m thinking it’s necessary until a better solution #journchat
Sue_Anne: Q9: Local journalism is becoming more about editing (wire feeds/citizen journalists) vs. reporting. #journchat
Sue_Anne: Q9: My one concern is trying to outscoop one another has always led to better journalism and that’s going away with “sharing” #journchat
karamat: @journchat Q9 Our station just signed agreement w/ our competitor 2 pool pressers. Will be lots more of this & it’s not good. #journchat
jasontspencer: @karamat It can be. Do three news orgs need to be covering the same car crash for instance? Frees up reporters for more stuff #journchat
karamat: @jasontspencer This is just got pressers/preplanned events. But ghat means that many fewer ?s asked since fewer reporters there. #journchat
karamat: @jasontspencer The dailies in Maine have had an agreement for about a year. When less competition, less chance to get more info. #journchat
jasontspencer: @karamat That’s a good point. I guess it’s a priorities. Share the minor stuff, free up your reporters to throw at big stories #journchat
MistyMontano: @jasontspencer but if that car accident leads to a bigger story, then 1 pool crew is not good.. that’s the struggle @karamat #journchat
jasontspencer: @MistyMontano Then send a second crew. Come up with a crisis plan. Newsrooms are good at mobilizing. Take advantage of that. #journchat
jasontspencer: @MistyMontano The point is, you don’t need three news choppers in the air to get the same footage of a traffic backup, imho #journchat
MistyMontano: @jasontspencer as for sending 2nd crew/crisis plan, scene is only there for so long, not there, you miss it, sound, pic, etc. #journchat
karamat: @jasontspencer I just believe there’s always more to a story if more ppl ask ?s. Fewer reporters=fewer questions=fewer answers. #journchat
jasontspencer: @karamat I totally agree w you. But I think we can prioritize which stories need multiple reporters/?s ~ Not all do #journchat