Says Jonathan Dube, a vice president of the Online News Association and publisher of CyberJournalist.net: “In this day and age, it would be foolish for any newspaper company to just think of itself as a ‘newspaper’ company and not a media company. The notion that a company like the Denver Post could ‘scoop’ itself is ridiculous and narrow-minded.”
Says Jonathan Dube, a vice president of the Online News Association and publisher of CyberJournalist.net: “In this day and age, it would be foolish for any newspaper company to just think of itself as a ‘newspaper’ company and not a media company. The notion that a company like the Denver Post could ‘scoop’ itself is ridiculous and narrow-minded.”
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Says Dube: “Debates over whether to publish [exclusive] news online happen far more now than they used to, though still not enough. Years ago, it was a rare event when a publication would break a major exclusive news story online. Now it’s commonplace. But there are still a lot of editors out there who believe that they should hold exclusive information for the print edition.”
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The Coors story, Dube says, also illustrates that point. If the Post had held the story for the next day, “then it might have lost the scoop and another publication might have beaten it and gotten credit for it. Because it posted the news online, the Post got credit and great publicity; its traffic likely increased; and the Post’s readers were well served.”
