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Revolution at the Washington Post

by huan9huan on 12/23/16, 10:31 AM with 3 comments

• by grzm on 12/23/16, 10:50 AM

  Two things stood out to me while reading the article: the focus on speed and volume of publication. Two things that were notable by their absence: focus on accuracy and newsworthiness, and in-depth reporting. I'm glad to see that they've staked out a plan for profitability, and put in place tools to do the job efficiently, but I really want to see that they have a commitment to producing good news. How would Woodward and Bernstein fit in in an environment where:

  You need to input a time to end—when do you think that story you’re writing is going to be ready? As your time draws near, the desk will send a reminder: Hey, your story is due in an hour. We see you haven’t yet finished the third paragraph. You see the curve every day of how many pieces of content were published by hour.

• by grzm on 12/23/16, 10:36 AM

  So successful has the Post become in the digital game that it now licenses its content management system to other news outlets, a business that could generate $100 million a year.

  Wow. Makes sense, though. Parallels Amazon/AWS.

• by huan9huan on 12/23/16, 10:34 AM

  Impressive story, the case of "coding & mobile is eating world"