James O'Shea is a journalist who worked as editor for the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times for many years before becoming independent and a big supporter of local media.
In this episode we talk about reporting and bad reporting, news and bad news.
I really enjoyed talking to Jim and I hope you will enjoy the conversation too.
Key take aways
- The challenge of communication is linked to the technological advances: Everybody can and wants to communicate. But Who should I believe?
- Large organizations that dominated media had their faults but were dedicated to objective media. Today There is more bias in the media than it used to be
- The world is more complicated and reporting is more complicated. But today reporting is too fast. There is an inability to fully report.
- I’s possible to report fast and good, but the reward is on sloppy journalism. Whoever change the reward for ‘fast first’ will revolutionize journalism
- In the 70's newspapers that reported just good news lost circulation. journalists wants controversy. But there may be more reward in the negative
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