"It’s not hard to see what Murdoch and Thomson have in mind for the new Journal. A blizzard of shorter stories that don’t jump and that take no more than a day to report, with a heavy emphasis on scoops, adds up to…"
"(...) what’s lost in this scenario is what makes American newspapers distinct from and superior to their Anglo-Australian counterparts: fully developed features, investigations, and just plain original reporting—that is reporting that takes longer than a day. ""Look, deals are fine, great even. But it is/was the genius of the Journal—what made it different and better—that it treated deals and all routine business news as a given on its way to offering much more.
This was the insight of Barney Kilgore, the post-World War II editor and executive who created the modern Journal: The paper would pay business-press readers the compliment of believing that if they had a minute, they might also be interested in the struggles of an inner-city honors student; how the tobacco industry used ammonia to boost cigarettes’ impact; or whether Bobby Thomson was stealing signs when he hit the most celebrated homerun in baseball history.
The editorial changes now under way represent the ascendance of a cramped, deal-centric vision of a business newspaper over an expansive one."
Y no se pierdan las "perlas" dedicadas al Financial Times :
Todo el comentario, aquí.These stories aren’t about deals, typically.
They do more than report what some institution did yesterday.They don’t offer warmed-over political analysis you can get anywhere.
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