Teaching old journalists new (media) tricks is tough. Teaching new journalists new tricks is just as tough. That’s what Paul Bradshaw is claiming at onlinejournalismblog.com. For decades, centuries journalists have been told to make sure sure their story is rock solid before publishing. But:

My feeling is that there is still a clear one-way - and gated - publishing mentality from journalism students. My challenge over the following eight lessons is to demonstrate that, online, journalism is not just writing a webpage or filming a video; it is commenting on a blog, or bookmarking a webpage. That there are no walls in cyberspace, only links; and that journalism lies in every act that you commit online. You just need to make it visible.

The most important points made are in the comments. First by Bradshaw himself:

The value of publishing work in progress needs to be more explicitly demonstrated.

Then by Nick from the BBC:

Hmm, can’t remember from where I heard it, but someone made the point
that we [journalists] can now ‘make content out of our process’ - I
guess that’s what you are trying to show them.

Publishing and opening up the process of journalism will cost next to nothing. And it can only bring audience closer to the story whilst maintaining some sort of pro/consumer barrier that ensure only the good stuff gets published.

Now, let’s go get some examples of who’s publishing process well.