CBSNews.com adds level of editorial oversight
Cory Bergman April 11th, 2007
Following the plagiarism incident on a videoblog post, CBSNews.com said it will add a new level of editorial oversight, although it didn’t not release specific details. I have a couple observations. First, while most local TV stations have a copyediting process in place for on-air copy, there’s little or no editorial oversight for stories written for the web. And second, as Michael pointed out in comments earlier, “TV news has ALWAYS stolen from newspapers. That’s where they get their stories from.” Can’t do that on the web, folks, and newspapers will be watching.
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1. Anonymous | April 12th, 2007 at 7:56 am
I don’t know what CBS does or does not do, but I can assure you that another network’s news division has senior standards & practices personnel who oversee all editorial output on the new division’s website, including blogs.
2. Roon | April 12th, 2007 at 8:24 am
No one is talking about the other angle to this story…confirmation of what we already sort of knew–that Katie Couric doesn’t do the blogging on her own blog.
Brian Williams does his own writing on The Daily Nightly and files an unscripted vlog every day. But “Katie’s Notebook” is obviously written by someone else and then posted with her name on it.
Kudos to Brian Williams for taking the time to share his own thoughts and words with us, and not his producer’s.
That’s a page from MY notebook.
3. John | April 26th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Please list me the two books given by Andy Rooney last week’s 60 minutes concerning Writing, Need titles, authors, and publishers.
Thanks,
John
marjohn154@aol.com
4. John | April 26th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Please see my correct e-mail on the request for Andy Rooney’s two English books.
It is marjohn153@aolcom
Thanks,
John
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