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Journalism requires expertise

05 lunes Oct 2015

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«When the Supreme Court issued its historic rulings this year on same-sex marriage and other issues, the New York Times reporter in the courtroom was a Yale-educated lawyer.

Our reporter who broke a major story about abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq was a former captain in the Marines. The team that covered the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris included eight French-speaking correspondents. A Times journalist who analyzed a definitive study on income inequality once worked at the Federal Reserve».

De esta forma tan contundente el director de The New York Times, Dean Baquet, empieza un texto tremendo hoy lunes. Lean, lean: «The New York Times Reaches a Milestone, Thanks to Our Readers«.

El motivo es importante: han logrado un millón de suscriptores digital-only. No un millón en total, no. Un millón sólo para la web o las apps. «We have another 1.1 million print-and-digital subscribers, so that in total, we have more subscribers than at any time in our 164-year history.»

El texto, corto, está lleno de frases que explican por qué son el primer periódico del mundo:

  • We still employ as many reporters as we did 15 years ago — and our ranks now include graphics editors, developers, videographers and other digital innovators who are making our digital offerings ever richer.

  • These journalists are not deskbound aggregators, either. Their job is to find new information that they are using to help our readers make sense of the world.

  •  To do this kind of journalism requires expertise.That’s why The Times employs doctors to cover medicine and health, economists to write about the economy and trained cartographers to make maps. Many of our reporters have spent years on their beats, honing their expertise and judgment.

  • When newsprint was rationed during World War II, The Times cut ads, not news stories, and when the hard times of the 1970s caused some publications to retrench, The Times added feature sections.

    No sé cómo será nuestro futuro, pero si hay que elegir una forma de morir, que sea peleando como hacen ellos.

Lecturas de Domingo

04 domingo Oct 2015

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Patrick Radden Keefe en The New Yorker: The Avenger After three decades, has the brother of a victim of the Lockerbie bombing solved the case?

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad en la LRB: «Some Tips for the Long-Distance Traveller«. La ruta de los refugiados. Vía Alberto Sicilia.

Todd C. Franckel en el Washington Post: «Pellets, planes and the new frontier. How Mexican heroin cartels are targeting small-town America«.

Christoper Beam en Bloomberg: «Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China’s Rich Kids«.  The fuerdai, China’s second-generation rich kids, are the most loathed group in the country. They’re also its future.

Michael Smith: «Want to Do Business in Cuba? Prepare to Partner With the General«.  Things are changing rapidly in Cuba, and people from around the world are eager to get in on the action. Wait until they learn all roads lead to Raúl Castro’s son-in-law. Las últimas dos, de Bloomberg ambas, vía Rodrigo Orihuela. 

Diana Saverin en The Atlantic: «The Terror and Tedium of Living Like Thoreau«. When you’re alone in a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness, the simplest question becomes the most complicated: How do you fill a day?

Ricardo F. Colmenero en El Mundo: «Clase de silencio«. Una columna para pensar.

Y para acabar, en la BBC y como parte de un nuevo libro: «The friendship that grew out of war«. La imposible amistad entre la mujer de Moshe Dayan y la suegra de Arafat.

Buen domingo a todos