We need to hew very closely to traditional journalistic values and totally disregard traditional forms.
— BuzzFeed‘s Ben Smith, as told to Atlantic Wire.
Another great future-of-news read:
→ “David Skok: Aggregation is deep in journalism’s DNA” | NiemanLab
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