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Lots to chew on here. The distinction between authenticity and authoritativeness might merit a column of its own.

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Great insights, as always. I'd welcome your thoughts on whether the traditional legal protections for the press are at risk, particularly around protections from libel claims.

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Thanks. Shortest answer is that I see this risk as somewhat overrated, but intend to address an aspect of it next week.

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Great stuff. I've worked on numerous experiments in reader participation over the years directly inspired by Jay's ideas. They were fun, and Jay definitely inspired us to think broadly. In the end, nothing worked better in terms of inspiring reader participation and follow up than first presenting interesting in-depth factual news reporting. (I have two long-version examples of this that wouldn't fit in a comment.) Yes we need to be closely connected with our readers and involve them in our process. They still in the end want us most of all to fulfill our basic role of professionally gathering and presenting high-quality factual information

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Good stuff. More on what better news gathering & presentation would look like would be welcome. And how to pay for it because fewer people can or will.

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Here's the model for covering a city. one person. one take

ROLDO’S WORK:

http://www.clevelandmemory.org/roldo/

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Good stuff. In terms of foreign policy issues, I definitely welcome bullet points 3 and 4 versus the "textus receptus" of much of major American media over the past two years or so. I presume I don't need to say more.

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