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Arianna Strikes Back
Earlier today we noted an article in which Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times, took the Huffington Post to task for the way in which it aggregates content.
Later in the day, Arianna struck back:
I wonder what site he’s been looking at. Not ours, as even a casual look at HuffPost will show. Even before we merged with AOL, HuffPost had 148 full-time editors, writers, and reporters engaged in the serious, old-fashioned work of traditional journalism. As long ago as 2009, Frank Rich praised the work of our reporters in his column. Paul Krugman more recently singled out the work of our lead finance writer. Columbia Journalism Review has credited our work for advancing the public’s understanding of the national foreclosure crisis, and a pair of our Washington reporters recently received a major journalism prize. Matthew Yglesias, Felix Salmon, Catherine Rampell, are among the many others who have cited the work of our reporters. Did Keller not notice that?
She goes on but we leave it at that.
It’s not our purpose here to amplify snark fights in the media space. But, with a high profile attack against her, we think it right to note her response.
I can’t decide whether serious journalism is the kind of thing that lures an audience to a site like The Huffington Post, or if that’s like hiring a top chef to fancy up the menu at Hooters. But if serious journalism is about to enjoy a renaissance, I can only rejoice.
Bill Keller, Executive Editor, New York Times, All the Aggregation That’s Fit to Aggregate.
In which he discusses how he’s number 50 on Forbes’ most powerful people in the world list, frets about people fretting about media and takes a few shots at Arianna.
Smartly, he notes about his top 50 listing: “If I were vaporized by aliens tomorrow, my family would miss me, but the 1,100 journalists of The New York Times would not miss a deadline.”
Microsoft’s Fuse Labs released a nifty new Web app at the LeWeb conference in France. Called Montage, it lets you curate content through a lightweight interface. Simply enter tags and search terms and choose from the results.
Mashable has a nice overview. We’ve played with it briefly and the nice thing about it is it behaves like an App. Quick, slick, easy to use and fun.
Downside? The URLs it gives you to promote your curated creations are very, very, long.
I pretend not to care not to care about journalism, but I sort of do. It’s no longer enough just to throw out the rehashes.
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