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The strength of the early eyewitness report
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by sremmah3 | March 23, 2008 at 02:44 pm
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Poynter Institute vice-president, author and writing guru Roy Peter Clark talks about a seminar presentation he attended by blogger Josh Benton and how he came away struck by Benton's logic on real time blogging/citizen journalism.
Benton's thesis goes like this: Eyewitness reporting
rendered in real time via the blog represents an interesting and worthy kissing cousin to long-form narrative journalism.
Benton's theory has been expressed in a somewhat clumsily titled graph, "The Benton Curve of Journalistic Interestingness," which shows the immediacy of blogging or citizen journalism captures the "spark" of the journalistic moment retaining far more "interest" than later, packaged journalism often found in newspapers which tends to standardise information.
The graph shows that later narratives of the event, written by investigative reporters or feature writers, again puts back the interest in the event.
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at 15:04 on March 23rd, 2008
sremmah3, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 15:09 on March 23rd, 2008
Thank you Cynthia,
Glad you liked the story.
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