On mainstream media
Was planning to write about art again today but found a brief article about mainstream media personnel that was interesting. The Washington Post reports:
“The Associated Press on Wednesday named Julie Pace, the global news service’s Washington bureau chief and a longtime Washington journalist, as its executive editor.
She succeeds Sally Buzbee, who departed the AP in May to become The Washington Post’s executive editor.”
Pace, 39, has been the AP’s Washington bureau chief since 2017, overseeing political, national security and policy coverage during the tumultuous Trump administration and presidential election aftermath. Now she will oversee AP’s massive global operation, which includes journalists spread across 100 countries … to modernize the AP’s reporting on digital platforms.”
I worked next-door to two good AP reporters in a DC press room and basically used a lot of what they wrote in my own copy. I used a lot of other people’s past reporting for background of new stories. I tried to make it clear through citations and even asked for in-person permission sometimes. AP reporters must get their copy used a lot. Plagiarism is complex. Sometimes it is borrowing in a complimentary manner; sometimes it is stealing.
So much has moved to social media now that the issue is diminished, but we should still give credit where it is due.