http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/03/04/jonathan-stray-on-original-reporting-imaginary-abundance/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/03/04/jonathan-stray-on-original-reporting-imaginary-abundance/comment-page-1/#comment-1954404 Ivan Sigal Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:04:36 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=3500#comment-1954404 EZ, this is interesting to think about in the context of the translation exchange. If that ratio is true for most stories - and I suspect it is, given what we know about reporting practice and the declining number of international correspondents - then the quality translation and recontexualization of original content in other languages could have a large effect on the ratio of original stories. It would be interesting to study a larger sample of stories over time; if there's anything like an average of 10 original stories per news event, then adding 2-3 from other language stories is significant and powerful. Definitely worth the research. EZ, this is interesting to think about in the context of the translation exchange. If that ratio is true for most stories – and I suspect it is, given what we know about reporting practice and the declining number of international correspondents – then the quality translation and recontexualization of original content in other languages could have a large effect on the ratio of original stories. It would be interesting to study a larger sample of stories over time; if there’s anything like an average of 10 original stories per news event, then adding 2-3 from other language stories is significant and powerful. Definitely worth the research.

]]> http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/03/04/jonathan-stray-on-original-reporting-imaginary-abundance/comment-page-1/#comment-1949854 Andrew Golis » Blog Archive » links for 2010-03-05 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:02:27 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=3500#comment-1949854 [...] …My heart’s in Accra » Jonathan Stray on original reporting: imaginary abundance Zuckerman points to research that says there are 583 versions of each story on the internet every day. Nutty. (tags: ethan.zuckerman new.media aggregation nieman.journalism.lab) [...]

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