http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/09/04/googles-spotlight-highlighting-journalism-of-lasting-value/ Online journalism news Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:16:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/09/04/googles-spotlight-highlighting-journalism-of-lasting-value/comment-page-1/#comment-17500 Journalism Daily: Sub-editing for online, new role for Heat editor and more on MPs’ expenses | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:18:28 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=13693#comment-17500 [...] Google’s Spotlight – highlighting journalism of ‘lasting value’ [...] [...] Google’s Spotlight – highlighting journalism of ‘lasting value’ [...]

]]> http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2009/09/04/googles-spotlight-highlighting-journalism-of-lasting-value/comment-page-1/#comment-17387 Seth Jacobson Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:28:35 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/?p=13693#comment-17387 Hmmm. Not really sure of the value of this - I know of certain pieces that have "bounced around blogs for a few days" for reasons quite unrelated to good journalism. I also see that at the bottom of Spotlight at the moment is The Onion story: "Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked". Seems like a fairly pointless innovation, trusting algorithms to make value judgments. Hmmm. Not really sure of the value of this – I know of certain pieces that have “bounced around blogs for a few days” for reasons quite unrelated to good journalism. I also see that at the bottom of Spotlight at the moment is The Onion story: “Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked”. Seems like a fairly pointless innovation, trusting algorithms to make value judgments.

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