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The downfall of CBS Sports

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by cranberry, Feb 3, 2016.

  1. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Untrue: Nobody cares who breaks stories.

    True: Readers care, but you also have to pay the person who breaks thoses stories a shitload of money. You also have to put up with them eccentricities (such as, Woj slams LeBron.)

    So, as a result, some Interwebs corps decide to pay pennies on the dollar for aggregators who take the work of those folks and repackage them for another Web site.

    It's a cost-efficiency play, and it works, to our collective chagrin.
     
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  2. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Twitter is more about distribution than person-to-person. When an organization or a newsmaker has something to say, they will tweet it. Organizations and genuine newsmakers aren't bailing.
     
  3. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Understood.

    But do you use Twitter as your distributor?

    Or do you find out what a newsmaker tweeted via some other source?
     
  4. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    We distribute content on Twitter several times a day typically. We also use it along with key originating sites to monitor news developments.

    I very seldom post things to Twitter personally. Texts and e-mails work fine for me.
     
  5. Do you use Tweetdeck? Lists are everything. I find out much of the day's news through browsing my "local sports," "MLB," "national news" and so-on feeds.

    I have a few thousand followers on Twitter, and it works brilliantly (in my market) as a vehicle for clicks onto our website. I'll get as many as 500 to 1,000 link clicks on big news (I cover high school sports); and almost always a few dozen clicks on features and gamers and anything I post. The way I see it, those 25 people who clicked the link are reading my work ... without Twitter, they probably would not be reading it.

    Plus, Twitter is a first-rate way to connect with readers, as we all know. A great way to plug the print product, or provide extra analysis with blog posts, or show a little personality.
     
  6. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    No I find Tweetdeck pretty useless for the way I consume.

    I do loves me some Crowdfire though.
     
  7. Huge fan of both. But how could you find Tweetdeck useless? For anyone in the information business, who does most of his/her work on a desktop computer, it's such a help.
     
  8. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    It's a good tool for journalists, but I'm not in the journalism business anymore-- not in the traditional sense.

    I'm speaking as a consumer of news and information.

    The customer.
     
  9. Doc Holliday

    Doc Holliday Well-Known Member

    God I wish I had thought of this line.
     
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  10. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    I believe that's what I said. :)

    And, just for the record, which I probably would have said, too, but I thought of it after I'd posted: I actually might have made the same move if what I wanted was all I was considering. I would've been more drawn to the intrigue of working in Abu Dhabi than I would have been to the money, I think, but still, I might have made the same jump. But not for a minute would my family have gone along with it, and that would've stopped me.
     
  11. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    But you're still OK with the Duggar family dynamics, right?
     
  12. WriteThinking

    WriteThinking Well-Known Member

    And that has exactly what to do with this?...
     
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