James O'Shea and the Complexity of Journalism

James O'Shea is a journalist who worked as editor for the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times for many years before becoming independent and a big supporter of local media.

In this episode we talk about reporting and bad reporting, news and bad news.

I really enjoyed talking to Jim and I hope you will enjoy the conversation too.

Key take aways

1. The challenge of communication is linked to the technological advances: Everybody can and wants to communicate. But Who should I believe?
2. Large organizations that dominated media had their faults but were dedicated to objective media. Today There is more bias in the media than it used to be
3. The world is more complicated and reporting is more complicated. But today reporting is too fast. There is an inability to fully report.
4. I’s possible to report fast and good, but the reward is on sloppy journalism. Whoever change the reward for ‘fast first’ will revolutionize journalism
5. In the 70's newspapers that reported just good news lost circulation. journalists wants controversy. But there may be more reward in the negative

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Website: http://jeoshea.com