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Speed or accuracy? Both? Neither?

Damon | 18 May, 2006 05:45 | (1639)

An interesting article in The Editor's Weblog, (no not Nick's Editor's Blog a different Editor!) concerning the pressures involved in online journalism.

"If it's so easy to get things wrong when they're done quickly, is it worth risking posting information before it is confirmed?...If their journalists increasingly function in this way without the proper factchecking and editing, won't newspapers lose readers? They understand that everyone makes mistakes. But isn't it important to get the facts straight for the audience. Isn't that the job of a newspaper?"

 

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