Comments on: Link journalism http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/04/01/link-journalism/ Brian Fuller's blog on the state of media and communications Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:03:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lou Covey http://greeleysghost.brian-fuller.com/2008/04/01/link-journalism/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Lou Covey Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:15:00 +0000 http://brian-fuller.com/blog/?p=301#comment-458 I can agree that online journalism is growing rapidly and needs to be considered as "real" journalism... whatever that means. But I looked at Techmeme's list and saw that more than 25 percent of the publications on the list were part of "traditional" journalism. what's more, more than 26 percent of the presence on the web is still in the realm of the traditionals.<br/><br/>But here is something I think is REALLY interesting. Most tech companies rely on Business Wire and PR News Wire for their reach into the web and the two of them together don't make up for more than 0.7 percent of presence on the web. I can agree that online journalism is growing rapidly and needs to be considered as “real” journalism… whatever that means. But I looked at Techmeme’s list and saw that more than 25 percent of the publications on the list were part of “traditional” journalism. what’s more, more than 26 percent of the presence on the web is still in the realm of the traditionals.

But here is something I think is REALLY interesting. Most tech companies rely on Business Wire and PR News Wire for their reach into the web and the two of them together don’t make up for more than 0.7 percent of presence on the web.

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