Common Sense Journalism

An extension of the Common Sense Journalism monthly column by Doug Fisher, former broadcaster, newspaper reporter and wire service editor. From new media to old, much of journalism is just plain common sense.

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Unknown (often improperly attributed to Thomas Jefferson)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair

"Common sense is not so common" - Voltaire "Common sense is instinct; enough of it is genius" - George Bernard Shaw

Thursday, November 24, 2011

On this Thanksgiving, a tale of journalistic sharing

It comes from Nieman Lab, which recounts how a rural Kentucky paper reached out to the Huffington Post to reprint a HuffPo story on a coal miner fighting for safer working conditions.

Perhaps what's surprising about this is that it would be seen at all as unusual in 2011 and the age of distributed journalism.

Don't be a journalism turkey - have a happy Thanksgiving!

Labels: community journalism, journalism blogs, news sharing

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

On this Thanksgiving, a tale of journalistic sharing

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