AR&D Reinventing Local Media

At ONA on Friday morning, Tina Brown raised a very good point - journalists are so buried in competitors' products that they hardly do original reporting. There's so much fear that they're "missing something" that they play it safe. I saw a great example of this recently when MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was questioning Andrea Mitchell about why her report different from one in Newsweek. We're so afraid to take risks. "What can we do in this crazy age to cut through the static and fake stuff and noise? We have to go back to thinking to what editors can do in an age when algorithms are ruling the day... " She praised Drudge, HuffPo and Real Clear Politics for finding news nuggets and editing them for points of view. In talking about going back to revisit stories and rethink them, Brown said, "Just when you think you've heard everything about a subject is just when you realize you know nothing."