OPINION: Shaping news coverage in the digital age
Whether you still prefer to hold a printed newspaper in your hands or have become comfortable reading news on a screen, you should hope that the essential journalism remains the same.
Increasingly, however, editors are concluding that new delivery systems require significant changes in content. Few have put it in more jarring terms than the Boston Globe’s editor, Brian McGrory, in a memo to his staff earlier this month as he outlined the goal of being “relentlessly interesting, every hour of the day.”
He went on to issue a somber directive that “we need to jettison any sense of being the paper of record. If something feels obligatory to write, it’s an obligation for someone to read.”