Saturday, November 15, 2008

Source blocks: My new journalism experiment

I've started a new practice for almost every single piece of content that I write for the Industry Standard -- adding a paragraph at the end of each article explaining who I talked with or where I got information in the process of conducting research. It's not the same as academic endnotes, but it gives readers a much more complete idea of the sources that went into each article or essay. It looks like this:
Sources cited, referenced, or consulted: Blog.basturea.com, American Journalism Review (ajr.org), Editorsweblog.org, Glasshouse.waggeneredstrom.com, Techmeme.com, thelongtail.com, Washingtonpost.com, Wired
The basic reason for doing this is to add transparency, but there are other factors that come into play as well -- I fully describe the reasoning behind my new journalism experiment over on the Standard. I've never seen this done before in any newspaper or magazine before, and one of my colleagues says "people don't care," but it's not hard and it increases transparency.

What do you think?

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