A phrase we journalists hear a lot about these days is “Search Engine Optimisation”

[barryqwalsh]

The biggest challenge for old-school journalists trying to learn the art is the realisation that everything we thought we knew is now wrong. OK, in print editions, headlines should still be snappy. They can also still be funny, where appropriate, or even oblique – drawing readers in with a teasing reference that will only be explained in the text.


New world braves An Irishman s Diary on the plight of old-school journalism in a search engine age

 

[Luddly Neddite]

If the Rs get their way, this will get a lot worse.

Factual journalism is dead. Now its almost exclusively op/ed blogs and for-profit entertainment.

 

[Mr. H.]

If the Rs get their way, this will get a lot worse.

Factual journalism is dead. Now its almost exclusively op/ed blogs and for-profit entertainment.

Like NBC, ABC, CBS...